| Crowds delighted in speeches filled with double talk ridiculing the pompous, bombastic oratory that characterized familiar memorial rituals. |
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| His earliest plays were political, ridiculing the wooden locutions of communist rhetoric. |
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| While putting up the show it felt like as if these children have come of age ridiculing the blemishes of the society with oodles of satire. |
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| Singleton strikes the difficult balance between recapitulating stereotypes and ridiculing them in broad burlesque. |
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| Without ridiculing the poet, he gently suggests Mrs Yeats must have been manipulating the spiritual dialogues for her own benign purposes. |
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| Johan feels no compassion for him, ridiculing even his suicide effort as a failure. |
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| Liberals and lefties, who know a thing or two about the politics of vituperation, have never held back from ridiculing conservatives. |
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| His presumed pragmatism upholds the status quo by ridiculing the relative few who dare to challenge it. |
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| Does perhaps the ridiculing of an area of academia bring the whole intellectual community into disrepute? |
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| Wearing Middle Eastern costume he spoke in tongues for an hour, and was accused by a youth in jeans and bomber jacket of ridiculing Arab culture. |
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| Along with brazenly ridiculing government and society, Ko began to incorporate short comedic skits into the band's sets. |
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| Soon, the day will come when I am officially bilingual, and the moment this is achieved, I plan to start ridiculing unilingual people. |
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| Matching his rugged features he cultivated a bluff manner, parading humble origins and ridiculing a man who corrected his accent. |
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| We can, of course, also hope that we can make ground by ridiculing their somewhat exaggerated attitude. |
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| I'm often reminded by comrades that the political tasks of the moment involve much more than merely mocking, ridiculing and provoking the Stoppers and associated tendencies. |
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| Many social media users are ridiculing the campaign, arguing that it belittles genuine cases of discrimination. |
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| More and more, Soviet architects, including those in K's good graces, have been ridiculing over-ornateness and the skyscraper urge. |
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| The station argued that the remarks were an attempt at humour with no intention of ridiculing or objectifying females. |
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| It can take the form of name-calling, threatening, ridiculing, berating, intimidating, isolating, hazing or ignoring the child's needs. |
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| For example, we make so many compliments that we end up ridiculing the person we're complimenting. |
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| Mr. Joe Comartin: We can hear the Conservative side saying that is ridiculous, and they are ridiculing me. |
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| This is a discerning way of ridiculing the Kremlin's authoritarian press policy. |
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| Newt Gingrich has been scoring points ridiculing the idea of algae as a fuel of the future. |
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| Because I think it is important for us to know who is laughing and who is ridiculing the pain and suffering of so many and, most importantly, laughing all the way to the bank. |
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| The satirists have quickly gone to work, ridiculing the move. |
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| The Kiwi was ripping into the Aussie with relish and, following a string of Wombat and Kangaroo one-liners, he began ridiculing the Australian work ethic. |
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| In addition negative stereotyping is omnipresent in the public eye through stage theatrical presentations ridiculing or vilipending these characters. |
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| In multicultural, pluralist, tolerant Britain, ridiculing religion is frowned upon and causing offence or undermining the self-esteem of communities is a cardinal sin. |
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| This is critical to stem actions in some of the houses of God which if anything border on ridiculing the same Almighty Lord they ought to be praying to. |
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| This proposition Heller takes considerable pleasure in ridiculing. |
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| Licensed by terminal illness, Jo spends much of her time ridiculing the guests, including an ill-matched married couple and a boorish bigot named Fred. |
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| He was accused of corrupting the Athenian youth, of making innovations in the religion of the Greeks, and of ridiculing the many gods whom the Athenians worshipped. |
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| Excellency, I assure you that my delegation has no interest in ridiculing or distorting the positions of any Member State, either adopted independently or as a group, as the aforementioned letter alleges. |
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| Behaviour that erodes or destroys a woman's cultural or religious beliefs by ridiculing or penalising them or forcing her to adhere to a different belief system. |
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| Mr. Speaker, while the hon. member for Beauce has been ridiculing and insulting Quebeckers to the great pleasure of the Prime Minister, the Conservatives have gone back on their word on harmonization and will penalize Quebec. |
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| In Ecuador, there are fears that cartoonist Xavier Bonilla may face criminal charges over an image ridiculing a fumbling speech by a politician in President Rafael Correa's ruling party. |
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| When I see that the Conservatives do not even take the time to look at a committee report, I think they are ridiculing democracy and the work we do. |
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| When we were allowing him to govern, he spent an inordinate amount of taxpayers' money ridiculing the leaders of our party, and I imagine those expenditure go on. |
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| Is it not that you are ridiculing my law and my name? |
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| Though many later spoke out in support of Smart's decision, the initial response on social media seemed to be predominantly ridiculing or criticising her. |
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| Hereward took revenge on the Normans who killed his brother while they were ridiculing the English at a drunken feast. |
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| The Turner Prize has spawned various other prizes in reaction to or ridiculing it. |
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| Thus, the name Quaker began as a way of ridiculing George Fox's admonition, but became widely accepted and is used by some Quakers. |
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| Psychological abuse may also take the form of ridiculing and demeaning the partner's religious or spiritual beliefs and preventing him from participating in spiritual activities. |
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| To the Arab disbelievers, the victory of the Romans seemed impossible and they started mocking the Muslims and ridiculing them about these Qura'nic words. |
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| There is even a nursery rhyme about war, The Grand Old Duke of York, ridiculing a general for his inability to command any further than marching his men up and down a hill. |
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| Most famously, Blaise Pascal, in his 1660 Provincial Letters, viciously assaulted what he saw as Jesuit laxism in faith and morals by ridiculing casuistry. |
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