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"derision" Definitions
  1. a strong feeling that somebody/something is silly and not worth considering seriously, shown by laughing in an unkind way or by making unkind remarks

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His proposed budget was greeted with bipartisan derision in Congress.
Yet in Australia it was the subject of some derision.
That earns me a salvo of derision from Ganna's mouth.
His weapon is comic derision, his tragic flaw is glibness.
So this Malinois warrants decoration while "a dog" gets derision?
A case in point on Monday: His derision of Sen.
You are worthless, stripped of dignity, the object of derision.
But even tents and sleeping bags are met with derision.
But he denied having been troubled by Mr. Obama's derision.
He just makes music that lends itself to total derision.
But, alas, the need to defend blackness against derision continues.
Albert Pujols dripped derision with a delayed toss in 2009.
Trump support is no abstraction here, or cause for derision.
Democrats responded to the original letter with fury and derision.
Defenders of Mr Trump's citadel have greeted these plans with derision.
But these terms are now used mostly in jest, not derision.
Others who fear Trump should be allies, not targets of derision.
Critics of Hong Kong's cautious approach to fintech snorted in derision.
The clip attracted a mix of derision and outrage on Weibo.
"We were treated with derision by the school board," White said.
Democrats, meanwhile, reacted with derision to Trump's attempted cleanup on Tuesday.
But this one, given what preceded it, drew some public derision.
Some of these attacks have drawn quiet derision from other campaigns.
Initially, Mr. Comey was the subject of much of their derision.
The speeches were met with derision from state Republicans on Monday.
All along the way, they were met with scorn and derision.
Trump administration officials reacted to the announcement with derision and fury.
Even among Trump advisers, that team was an object of derision.
Through it all, his derision for the press was the common thread.
The derision kept coming as people questioned and even mocked the move.
An oft-used derision is that it looks like a tourist trap.
To most Algerians, however, he is an object of derision or pity.
When I posted about Duterte's war on drugs, Madelyn responded with derision.
Mocking opponents and treating their ideas with derision rarely defeats an idea.
That comment set off the chattering classes in a chorus of derision.
Slightly higher, pitchwise, is the lilting whine that he deploys for derision.
The initiative instead incited derision and outright hostility toward employees and executives.
These songs are damp with derision, regret and desire, but never uncertainty.
France's economic makeover has inspired some derision outside of the country, too.
He attracted both support and derision for his decisions to walk out.
His Friday sermons appealing for moderation on all sides meet with derision.
This would make little sense if The_Donald were all memes and derision.
A recent proposal about student loan forgiveness was met with derision online.
Though even writing that, I recognize I am exposing myself to derision.
Rubio first encountered derision after debuting the footwear in public last week.
The performance drew a chorus of derision from critics on social media.
A Twitter search for "LACMA redesign" will similarly yield almost nothing but derision.
This broad derision has been applied directly to those who identify as Slytherins.
Despite its growing popularity, the derision of the set was far and wide.
"  Michael Scherer: "Bloomberg wins the Democratic spotlight and the derision of his rivals.
We usually view teens and the younger generations with a tinge of derision.
Responding to years of derision by President Donald Trump and other critics, Sen.
After the initial burns and derision comes the second-most common reaction: generosity.
S. efforts to do this have been a point of derision with Russia.
That derision is smaller-minded than this play seems to want to be.
Bolton, long a figure of derision within the foreign policy world, to replace
But the announcement was met with derision from some of Mr. Sanders's supporters.
Once the technology became more reliable and affordable, much of this derision evaporated.
Still, at the end Mr. Trump exulted, once again stoking support and derision.
Rashida Tlaib, who is a particular target of the Bikers' fear and derision.
Of course, he may welcome the world's derision as a badge of honor.
Sanders' derision of the Democratic Party was discussed during his unsuccessful 22000 presidential run.
His speech was met with derision at a protest in central Beirut on Thursday.
The well-deserved derision Simpson endured was seen by Sanneh as somehow not sporting.
Do those polls mean Trump's minority outreach is working, despite the chorus of derision?
The quick regulatory flip-flops spurred a lot of derision among social media commentators.
Black Americans faced exclusion from unions, but also derision for accepting positions as strikebreakers.
They were met with derision and obstruction from the White House at every turn.
The first issues hit newsstands with a thud, and then a rustle of derision.
Thompson is especially good at rescuing poor, half-baked Unity from one-dimensional derision.
The outspoken billionaire's decision has sparked widespread derision from other Republican White House hopefuls.
From the Sanders wing, the familiar tides of scorn and derision are flowing apace.
He must have known that the album would receive intense derision upon its release.
Brexit has had the headlines, and attracted the most derision from the EU enthusiasts.
Cruz on Tuesday called a basketball hoop a "ring" in Indiana, drawing widespread derision.
His bombast is no longer an object of disapproval and derision, but of admiration.
Trump's suggestion that environmental laws were somehow compounding wildfire woes drew derision on Twitter.
News of the imminent withdrawal was met with derision by EU lawmakers in Brussels.
Other science professionals, like climate scientists, have faced this kind of public derision as well.
Social media largely erupted in celebration, though there were some voices of dissent and derision.
Jay Inslee, who avoided the crowd's derision by returning to the message candidates delivered earlier.
One British newspaper, The Sun, chimed in with its own derision of a female Doctor.
Her remarks have now made her a target of derision all along the political spectrum.
" Success, she reminds us, is an "object of derision in every wisdom literature ever penned.
And Nixon's derision for minorities in private is well-known from his White House recordings.
"Now they're remaking 'Ghostbusters' with only women," he said with derision in a recent video.
His friend Paula White, to the derision of skeptics, has said he has professed Christ.
Trump's allegation about covert enrichment was met with derision by diplomats who follow the IAEA.
Eventually he confesses the abuse, impulsively, on the radio, earning both public sympathy and derision.
These ideas have drawn some derision and criticism that formal consent disrupts passion and romance.
Shine may or may not deserve the derision that Trump seemed to direct his way.
Otherwise, we'll see more South Parks treating us like goofy, alternate costumes worthy of their derision.
Clinton's pantsuits have become an object of both derision and admiration over her lengthy political career.
The ethos is so concise that it's often the main source of derision for the sport.
The unveiling of a Green New Deal last week provoked a mix of enthusiasm and derision.
I count myself among those who look upon Beats with a mix of derision and suspicion.
It's important to note that Bitcoin Cash doesn't actually exist yet, which has provoked some derision.
Over the years, such efforts have long been met with dismay, if not derision, outside France.
Britain's pollsters came in for derision after the country's general election just over a year ago.
WeWork's recently mooted plans of issuing even more junk debt was met with derision from investors.
When a pair of round, derision-inducing glasses was suddenly the hottest accessory in the world?
Since all of them do have a stake, none are interested in outright derision or dismissal.
Though I am subjecting myself to derision, I think that President Trump has performed well policywise.
Separately, Elon Musk's derision of the United Auto Workers on Twitter could land him in trouble.
Many of the politicians, federal officials and wealthy residents he lobbied greeted the idea with derision.
Monday's announcement by Netanyahu was met with derision by Palestinian Liberation Organization Secretary-General Saeb Erekat.
When I was a kid, Okie was still a common term of casual derision and contempt.
Mr. Trump once called Miss Universe Alicia Machado "Miss Piggy," then doubled down on his derision.
Not surprisingly, Irving's trade demand has been met with a fair amount of skepticism and derision.
TONY BLAIR'S speech on Brexit on the morning of February 17th attracted a predictable storm of derision.
Local leaders have defended the seal, pointing to its historical accuracy, even as criticism and derision mounted.
THE title of Paolo Sorrentino's Vatican drama "The Young Pope" has been met with confusion and derision.
P.S. How they see us ... Cover of today's Guardian (London): "The world's derision halts Trump UN speech."
The small group braves derision, catcalls and even spitting as they break through limits set by Hamas.
Born with great fanfare just four short years ago, the device quickly became the object of derision.
Why would I be -- why would I make myself the target of such derision in our audience?
That year Jethro Tull, a folk-prog band, beat Metallica, then in their heyday, to widespread derision.
In this Cowboys fan's opinion, the Patriots are the worst and Tom Brady is worthy of derision.
The 'bunny problem' Initial public response to the statute ranged from puzzlement to indifference to outright derision.
Pence's derision of China's "unparalleled surveillance state" is also fairly rich, given domestic policy on warrantless surveillance.
Simmons' attempt was met by criticism from throughout the music world, and widespread derision in the media.
Unfortunately, the machine, which was once priced at $700, was met with derision from the get-go.
That being said, much of the derision for the 252 Blocks goes well beyond careful critical appraisal.
There's general grumbling, much derision and, in some quarters, an air of embarrassment amongst fans around me.
Her assertion that another crisis was unlikely drew some derision on Wall Street and on social media.
Many displayed a typically British brand of humor, blending sarcasm, a touch of cruelty and self-derision.
As you might expect, that frequently makes him the target of the group's derision/snark… especially Gladio's.
Trump administration officials have reacted with derision and fury and have quietly threatened to sanction the entity.
But this brought on a new wave of derision, with many people sharing screenshots of his remarks.
They endured the derision of their rivals and, in particular, the disdain of their neighbors, Manchester United.
The resolution has more breadth than detail and is so ambitious that Republicans greeted it with derision.
It's a very funny movie, but the audience laughs are more laughs of painful recognition than derision.
As the editors of Vogue noted in a barbed round-table posting about Milan Fashion Week, greeted by both cheers and derision (mostly derision), the street-side catwalk is now largely a means of hyping styles, trends and merchandise already in circulation, with scarcely any relation to fresh ideas.
That announcement was met with a mixture of support and derision, based largely around Kaepernick's national anthem protests.
At the time, Dutta was treated with derision, and she eventually quit the industry — and left the country.
United Airlines deserves derision for forcing a man off a flight he paid for and bloodying his face.
Some observers have argued that Trump is a rampant sexist whose derision toward women explains his entire personality.
The humble, lopsided tree immediately attracted unflattering international attention and brought a torrent of derision on social media.
The iPhone X's notch was met with widespread confusion and derision when the phone was unveiled in September.
But he was ruled off-side by the VAR, prompting howls of derision from white-clad Iranian fans.
Talk of a leadership bid by Michael Dugher, a former shadow cabinet minister, was recently greeted with derision.
Children should be at liberty to explore the possibilities of who they might be without judgement or derision.
But Facebook has drawn anger and derision everywhere this year, even at thought-leader conferences in the mountains.
Obama's comment has drawn derision from Republicans in the years since as ISIS has pulled off terror attacks.
His nuclear war button measuring contest with North Korea is bound to be the subject of derision, too.
The music industry did not take the young artists seriously, and viewed their computer-made beats with derision.
Shkreli, already in the running for most-hated man in America, immediately faced a new onslaught of derision.
Since the label presented its first collection back in 2014, it's garnered international acclaim as well as derision.
Why should I be a team player for you when you've shown me nothing but scorn and derision.
Just as with Kennedy's moon landing goal and Reagan's SDI, Pence's announcement was met with doubt and derision.
In fact, new highs have often been met with indifference at best, and hostility and derision at worst.
The gaffe quickly sparked mockery and derision online, with Twitter users criticizing Biden&aposs unfortunate choice of words.
Mr. McConnell's plea to move on, however, is sure to be met only with derision by House Democrats.
Mr. Schumer is not a figure of derision on the left as Mr. McConnell is on the right.
Opinion The women accusing the Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual misconduct have faced doubt and derision.
Many saw her dismissal as grounds for derision, but I now believe she knew what she was doing.
" This was received with derision, but Mr. Farage was in a fighting mood: "What's the matter with you?
And that derision did not take long to return, once focus had returned to the evening's primary purpose.
That act, in turn, drew derision from a number of people, including Bryce, who began fundraising off it.
Movements that hector and punish rather than educate and reform have a way of inviting derision and reaction.
During his youth, Bruce faced incidents of derision and exclusion on account of not being 100 percent Chinese.
Saunders says that researching the book really made him appreciate how much tragedy and derision Lincoln had to endure.
Not every follow-up report out there expressed immediate horror or derision at the idea of a Fortnite tutor.
Harrison's derision of these commercial figures seems to parallel the skepticism felt by some outside the Perth Amboy window.
Those shortcomings have caused some AI researchers to greet OpenAI's claims of an imminent threat to society with derision.
As his voyage gained international coverage, he became the subject of derision in a corner of the sailing community.
Because the gonging sound they hear in their heads is no longer a cue to unleash derision on Asians.
But a history of imposing homogeneity means that, even today, those whose French does not sound Parisian face derision.
Avoiding extra time In the face of such derision, it would be easy for IFAB to abandon the innovation.
Since it only has about 7,000 students, that represents quite a feat, and the claim was greeted with derision.
And Right to Rise, run by Bush confidant Mike Murphy, has become the subject of derision among Bush supporters.
Chancers who gave it a go were considered get-rich-quick schemers and worth of little more than derision.
The comment drew derision from Pakistan's foreign minister who termed the statement "irresponsible" and an "invitation for nuclear encounter".
Moscow's stock exchange actually went up after this news showing its derision at the lazy and confused U.S. effort.
Derision of the project was a bipartisan affair, as Democrats and Republicans alike declared their skepticism of Facebook's intentions.
Not only did he persevere to win, he stuck to his positions despite the "experts" and their widespread derision.
There was a time when Stephen Thompson was receiving the kind of derision that Sage Northcutt is experiencing now.
The derision for the unorthodox training and the participatory methods established by their parents, Richard Williams and Oracene Price?
The reason Mr. Snyder's proclamation about safe water has been met with such derision varies from household to household.
"Be Kind" begins when curly-headed Tanisha becomes an object of derision after spilling her grape juice at school.
Monarchs considered it a peasant grape that made bad wine — "gou," in medieval French, was a term of derision.
Derision may feel more satisfying, but in the long run stories that are measured in tone are more powerful.
Mr. Trump announced, then backed away from, a potential cybersecurity initiative with Moscow, a shift that prompted bipartisan derision.
The obvious symbolism that the color pink and a vacuum equals women, for example, prompts derision, not intellectual curiosity.
The proposal was met with derision by the Blue and White alliance, which claimed that he's pinched its idea.
Time and again, women candidates have been met with derision or dismissed as "long shots" — in many cases, both.
"Real leaders don't spread derision and division -- they build partnerships and offer solutions instead of ideology and blame," Beshear said.
He debuted as the team mascot in September to some derision for his wide-eyed stare and frightening furry mane.
Now the tech gurus are figures of derision, and technology has joined climate change at the heart of political debate.
It's tougher than dealing with aggression, derision, or disrespect from someone I know, because I can't do anything about it.
In fact, its staying power as subject of derision is merely proof of its staying power in the public consciousness.
But this is where leadership has failed, and why tech companies' attempts to play neutral has been met with derision.
He says wildly offensive things when the objects of his derision aren't around, but crumples when he actually meets them.
I can shrug that derision off all I like (the phone works fine) but it really DID get to me.
" Trump welcomed the statement from Mueller's office, despite his past derision of the special counsel's probe as a "witch hunt.
During introductions, Cabinet members each took turns to heap praise on the president, much to the derision of critics online.
Conservatives often rail against the "administrative state," their term of derision for federal agencies and the "bureaucrats" who staff them.
What's particularly interesting about Torvalds' note is that it was followed not by snark or derision but with general interest.
Indian religious celebrities are known popularly as godmen, a word that suggests stardom but also adds a hint of derision.
The list was met with a combination of disbelief and derision in Russia, as mocking comments ricocheted around social media.
"Hillary Clinton spoke with hatred and derision for the people who make this country run," Trump said during his speech.
In a Judy Moody novel I read as a kid, tuna is referred to only as an item of derision.
But it did give fodder to Democrats who are likely to revel in Mr. Trump's derision of his party's bill.
His plans to increase tariffs — 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum — have met with derision from economists.
Every rally we have had in the last several years--every new high--has been met with open hostility and derision.
No wonder designers who have proposed gondolas as an urban transit solution have met a mix of fanged skepticism and derision.
The derision of fossil fuels could even be stymieing progress by deepening the disconnect between climate change rhetoric and energy reality.
Despite the predictable howls of derision to the contrary, a free market provides the best quality products at the lowest prices.
Trump supporters use "globalist" as a term of derision toward anyone they consider privileged elites, from both sides of the aisle.
The women's liberation protest instantly became a symbol of the movement, even if it was met with derision from conservative commentators.
BM: I said [as much some time ago] and faced a lot of laughter and derision, but certainly I think so.
He even went on a highly publicized visit to Venezuela in 2012 that earned the derision of the entire Parisian establishment.
"And yet in our public lives, we suddenly say, 'I don't want somebody who's done it before'?" he asked in derision.
The World Health Organisation swiftly withdrew its appointment of Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador, which had elicited howls of derision.
An unexpectedly powerful issue: his derision of a Latina beauty queen for gaining weight after winning the 225 Miss Universe pageant.
To most people, the only embarrassing fact here is the marriage to Weiner, which should properly excite pity rather than derision.
Ms. Piccinini, whose work takes a bracing look at motherhood, reproduction and fertility, still smarts at the recollection of public derision.
At Salem's Witch Museum, the narrator tells us — with more than a little derision — that the Puritans were a superstitious people.
Though my mother and I had the out-and-out battles, Skip was the default object of my scorn and derision.
Schultz criticized Harris early on Tuesday during an interview with CBS, when he reacted to her comments in Iowa with derision.
But Trump commits enough deplorable acts every day, ones worthy of derision and outrage, that we need not invent new ones.
Such derision has become the norm of late, with the Knicks providing new material each night for their fans to boo.
But when Mr. Corbyn took credit for shifting the debate, he was met with hoots of derision from the Conservative backbenches.
I think a pasty British dude in a funny hat pretending he's Stevie Wonder just naturally invites derision in any era.
"Real leaders don't spread derision and division — they build partnerships and offer solutions instead of ideology and blame," Mr. Beshear said.
To the end, an unflinching optimism — the source of both affection and gentle derision from those who know him — shone through.
The clumsy move was first met with derision and jokes, but ultimately, it weaseled its way into the hearts of the population.
Maybe he's still deserving of our derision for how he chose to handle the affair, but he's no less human for that.
How could they feel so entitled to touch me now, when back then it was such a source of shame and derision?
When the New Age advocates first went big in the early '22000s, they were met with derision — something Oprah's talked about before.
These days many Americans live in an alternative political reality, in which the simplest factual assertions are met with anger and derision.
"The fact that we still view alchemy with derision is a reflection of how effective that 18th-century rebranding was," he said.
" She also asked with rising derision in her voice, "Ask yourself: Does Donald Trump have the temperament to be commander in chief?
If she's the quintessential normal politician, then Trump is the ultimate anti-politician, the prankster who deploys derision to destroy the system.
American companies' willingness to go against their own principles in order to gain access to the Chinese market is worthy of derision.
There's no equivalent category to "teenybopper" for boys, no specific language of derision for what are perceived as more masculine music obsessions.
Were British Airways to run the same campaign today, it would probably stir a mixture of derision abroad and embarrassment at home.
At the end of the second round, Ali waved his right glove in derision at Frazier as they walked to their corners.
The governor became well-known for responding to criticism with insults and derision, often on the fly, creating many YouTube-ready moments.
" He also has expressed derision for the multiple investigations into Moscow's election meddling, calling the probes "fake news" and a "witch hunt.
Metalheads love complaining about metal bands, especially when an artist serves up an opportunity for mockery or derision on a silver platter.
In the US, if you choose to make a fashion statement, you may get a second look or receive praise or derision.
His takeover of the Cuckolds lighthouse restoration effort drew derision after the project morphed into a $276-a-night bed-and-breakfast.
The shop's name stems from a term of derision for the teetotaling, lecture-friendly Congregationalists who settled the town in the 1850s.
Amis, who has reveled in and brandished his coolness since boyhood, is blind to the resentment his kind of derision can provoke.
Yet this magazine, in some of its pieces, continues to treat plant-based diets and those who eat them with some derision.
Cage's silent piece acts like a mirror, revealing what the listener brings into the hall — rustling bodies, digestive clicks, impatience and derision.
In all our years in the political arena, we have not seen the level of derision and divisiveness that we see today.
Casper and One Medical, just filed for IPOs to general criticism if not outright derision of the numbers in their S-1s.
In a region where homophobia is widespread, his derision of gays, lesbians and transgender people was in a league of its own.
Despite 211 years of derision and dismissal from politicians, the media, and most of the American public, the eclectic following soldiers on.
Despite 15 years of derision and dismissal from politicians, the media, and most of the American public, the eclectic following soldiers on.
When people make fun of SoulCycle (I've made fun of it in the past), their derision is never about the actual workout.
That product, and its subsequent successors like Kylie's, has a controversial history, and a trajectory that went from extreme trust to derision.
The M9's three decades of service since 1985 has occasionally made it the subject of derision among members of the armed forces.
Trump's tweets on Thursday were immediately met with derision from many online, who responded to the president about the "beauty" of Confederate statues.
My body became an object of boys' derision or disgust or desire, and I never felt the same way about it after that.
The women in the room respond to Doug with derision and anger; Charlie, on the other hand, gets giggles and hand-waving acceptance.
The Italian press was relentless in its scrutiny—and its derision—of the bizarre-­looking web entrepreneur turning Italian politics on its head.
Alexander Nix said his now-defunct firm had become the subject of global derision and was unfairly blamed for putting Trump in office.
During the visit, May was pictured holding hands with Donald Trump; a gesture that was met with contempt and derision on social media.
My hope for my child's future is that his skin color won't be a source of shame to him or derision from others.
It's funny, it's original, and surprisingly timely — given its derision of the sexist, stereotype-happy forces in Hollywood that, unfortunately, still linger today.
But it also earned national derision as a short-sighted move that would cost the state twice as much as it brought in.
In public, she tends to handle reporters with the sort of eye-rolling derision that Fox News' Tucker Carlson levies against liberal guests.
PATRICIA A. WELLER Emmitsburg, Md. To the Editor: Do we really want or need a cheerleader for hate and derision in this country?
Any attempt to defend the media as just people doing their jobs the best they can is met with derision from Trump backers.
Trump's proposal to build a wall closing off the U.S.-Mexico border has been met with everything from derision to disappointment to denunciation.
Mr. Latimer himself became the object of derision, with revelations about unpaid parking tickets that led to the loss of his car registration.
That portion drew derision from Republicans, who cast the entire bill as soft on crime and chock-full of Democratic social welfare programs.
Those with access to social media in Egypt can find a litany of complaints, accusations and derision directed at him and his regime.
Multiple news outlets have reported on the Trump Organization's longstanding reliance on the very people the president often discusses with derision: undocumented immigrants.
But his style also drew derision from the environmental community and the quiet mockery of many career staff members in his own agency.
They walk and talk in the service of the novels' thematic preoccupations but they are not the victims of derision or authorial assault.
The anchovy may have once been a punch-line and an item of derision, especially among the cartoon turtles of the late 1980s.
The Japan visit, for which he was subsequently the subject of derision, was sponsored by Fujisankei Communications Group, the country's largest media conglomerate.
Despite the derision he received from a cynical media and a checked-out D.C. establishment, this promise is real and it has legs.
And, not coincidentally, she has also become the white-hot epicenter of not just derision, but blistering, nonstop criticism from conservatives and Republicans.
It was a moment for Skrillex, who finally got his own due as a melodic genius after years of derision both earned and unearned.
Lord Mayor of Melbourne Robert Doyle described the scheme as "a costly exercise" that is "more likely to bring derision," according to 7 News.
While it's hilarious and bizarre to have gnarly ghouls with loose eye sockets prowling hungrily around the English countryside, there's no mockery or derision.
Instead, there is derision, and decisions from the top (such as the transgender directives, however well-meant) that are not only puzzling but annoying.
There's already derision among their ranks too, with in-fighting at camp while Jon and Sansa bicker about whether to proceed to battle now.
"Mike Bloomberg wins the Democratic spotlight and the derision of his rivals," by Michael Scherer How the billionaire is taking advantage of Democratic uncertainty.
Right around that time, I moved to Europe to study, and I saw how their society viewed our gun culture with suspicion and derision.
As he grew larger, he became an even bigger target of derision at Cor Jesu High, a Catholic school he attended in the city.
Anyone who has covered Sanders knows the depths of his commitment to his progressivism, and so these attacks have mostly been met with derision.
Tim Kasher: I'm sure this will be met with some derision, as I meet a ton of people who say that's their favorite record.
The group's subsequent albums— Everything Goes Wrong (2009) and Share The Joy—were met with a similar combination of glowing praise and intense derision.
Not with derision, but with a little bit of attention and respect and respond with policy initiatives that really are thoughtful and forward looking.
If Trump's norm-shattering derision of the courts and constitutional principles has only accelerated in the past two years, public responses appear more polarized.
Mr. Roberts's comments were immediately met with derision and anger on social media, and a number of prominent advertising executives were quick to respond.
The object of the derision was Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who had arrived flanked by national and local political leaders to pay his respects.
Then there was the conservative who accused Ocasio-Cortez of growing up in a house on Twitter, only to be greeted by widespread derision.
Along with screen size, the Samsung-branded stylus was also the subject of quite a bit of derision when the line was first announced.
Among up-and-coming Republicans, Trump was still an object of derision and scorn: vulgar, ignorant, embarrassing, and destined to lose to Hillary Clinton.
That's driven, in part, by the frequent derision aimed at Google — largely coming from Apple — for its reliance on collecting massive amounts of data.
But since then, this style has drawn regular derision from people who have recognized the format he works in and think they're above it.
Especially hearing scientists talking about treating people with these kinds of opposing theories—that we're tempted to dismiss outright—with empathy rather than derision.
Even with Wild Mood Swings' near universal derision, "Mint Car" is as tightly constructed as any of the songs from the band's golden era.
President Trump, meanwhile, has singled out California for attacks and derision, saying its policies were letting dangerous immigrants live freely in the United States.
One logo, a ram's head, drew mostly negative feedback, but an image of a horn swooping over a capital L.A. drew the most derision.
In cutting Scott, he goes beyond a mere lack of affectation into positive derision, mocking the pretensions of the refined society that mocked him.
In the genius of Ms. Rowling's imagination, they are vanquished with a charm called "Riddikulus," which turns the boggart into an object of derision.
The comic actor also opened up about the backlash the film suffered when its first trailer was met with derision and mockery last April.
His move, while winning praise from Republicans and Israel, has confused some of his own aides and brought derision from much of the world.
The idea that Poland could try to force a different candidate for the job has been met with bewilderment, and even derision, in Brussels.
The fast-food chain's plan to open a restaurant in a Vatican-owned building was met with derision when it was announced in October.
The derision and aspersions are dangerous and unwarranted," Webster argued, adding that Trump's "thinly veiled suggestion" that Wray may be fired "disturbs me greatly.
England's attacks were panicky and sporadic, summed up by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's hopeless hoof over the bar which brought howls of derision from the crowd.
If he spends any time at all with his emotions, they likely overwhelm him, so he projects them onto others as anger, derision, or criticism.
Its features—the two that it has—are unmistakably African: wide, flat nose and full lips, marks of beauty for some and derision for others.
Two girls -- emboldened by bystanders alternately yelling out support or derision -- went toe-to-toe in the residential street before they tumbled to the ground.
Thirty-one months into the Administration, the relationship between Trump and Pompeo, born in derision and remade in flattery, has proved to be surprisingly durable.
However, US military officials have told me, often with some derision, that China's J-31 fighter and Y-20 transport are, at best, cheap facsimiles.
The announcement that established fact-checking organizations will be in charge of classifying some stories as fake was quickly met with derision on the right.
Trump has frequently been a subject of media derision with his bombastic performances, but O'Connell noted that the importance of that criticism could be exaggerated.
Mr. de Blasio did not know the answer to the question, although it was a simple one, which prompted Mr. DeFrancisco to respond with derision.
So the derision among this crowd for ICOs was palpable – they're either a joke or a scam or both, depending on whom you talk to.
Trump argued he had meant to say "wouldn't" instead of "would," a version of events that sparked derision on social media and skepticism in Washington.
Pro wrestling is hard, despite the lingering derision, and hearing pro wrestlers talk about their very legitimate broken bones and torn knees brings that home.
The war in Afghanistan may be drawing to a close, but no substantive efforts are underway to undo the legacy of cultural derision that remains.
After harassment allegations surfaced last fall in the Texas Legislature, leaders promised training and then distributed a rote-sounding video and quiz that drew derision.
Four years ago, it drew global derision when soldiers carried broomsticks instead of machine guns during a NATO exercise because of a shortage of equipment.
Relatedly, consider recent commentary (also heavily think-pieced) by Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola about their derision for Marvel movies as not being real art.
But Mr. Trump's call for new global negotiations about the planet's climate drew derision from Democrats in the United States and other heads of state.
The IRS has been a target of derision from Republicans in recent years due to its handling of conservative groups' applications for tax-exempt status.
An American diplomatic cable in 2006 about Ecuador's presidential election was headlined, "Correa Selects Unknown Running-Mate," and described him with a bit of derision.
The dangerous search for him that ensued - and the Taliban prisoner swap that won his release in 2014 - drew wide derision from soldiers and Republicans.
Ms Ley tried to explain the apparent blurring of public and private business by suggesting, to widespread derision, that she had bought the flat on impulse.
His derision preceded a general change of course from Republicans, who are now going on the offensive against the women accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
While he didn't respond to questions shouted by the press about Donald Trump's derision of NATO, Obama did describe the alliance as intrinsic to American defense.
Third division champions Boa Esporte drew widespread derision with the signing of Bruno Fernandes, a former top-flight keeper who was released from jail last month.
He points to Trump's derision of "liddle Bob Corker", the senator who voiced the fear that Trump could be taking the country towards "World War III".
While previously, derision of uBeam's product has come from those outside the company without intimate knowledge of how it's supposed to work, this report is different.
The musical treats Eva as an entertainer first and a politician second — with some derision for her cheap populism and grandiosity, but also with some respect.
The 10-page Google Doc document was met with derision from a large majority of employees who saw and denounced its contents, according to the employee.
Some of the snubbed MPs chose to run independently; Ms Park's office attracted derision when it demanded that they return their official portraits of the president.
In my experience, just the opposite happens: instead of seeing your point of view, targets of derision dig in, and want to call names in return.
Since then, Rodman has tried to act as a bridge between America and isolated communist dictatorship, often earning derision and contempt for his ad hoc diplomacy.
Cruz's gambit met with derision from some of his GOP colleagues, and similar strains of dissatisfaction can be heard now, as the Trump administration steams ahead.
Although ugliness is in the eye of the beholder, some of the world's most hated buildings have been the subjects of derision and mockery for years.
Conway is weathering criticism and social media derision for referencing a nonexistent terrorist attack in Bowling Green, Ky. at least three times since late last month.
The T-shirt incident was captured on video and quickly went viral, earning Mr. Macron a mocking hashtag, #UnTshirtpourMacron, and much derision in the news media.
The lawyers note: Locs are often the target of scorn and derision based on long-held stereotypes that natural Black hair is dirty, unprofessional, or unkempt.
Now we have a sitting president who called the free press "the enemy of the people," frequently singling out The Times for derision his bully pulpit.
When the news broke last week that Mr. Mueller had finished his report, Moscow's political and media circles reacted with a mixture of contempt and derision.
This is the sort of thing that brings howls of derision from the right, but that actual policy experts consider a valuable contribution to the discussion.
As you might expect, this entire concept is contested: Delighted By's hummus has been both a Shark Tank success story and a point of online derision.
Popular culture's fascination with — and derision for — the pomp and preening baked into awards shows can't but extend to the women fixed in the cameras' glare.
Now, Uber, in a move that was met with derision by critics, says it wants to help solve some of the problems it has helped cause.
When he learned the article was about to be published, he immediately quit the grocery store, assuming an onslaught of internet derision was headed his way.
Biden has mused sporadically about the possibility of a post-election "epiphany" that would restore bipartisan cooperation to Washington, generally only to be met with derision.
To the Reddit community on Tuesday night, the official was received with a heaping of derision amid demands that the official reveal his or her identity.
The undiplomatic statements coming from both Ankara and Athens, however, reflect the derision and "winner takes all" attitude with which both governments treat their domestic opponents.
In December, after "Cats" had opened, the beleaguered musical encountered fresh derision when word spread that Universal was shipping theaters a new version with improved effects.
Mr. Comey, who has served as a foil, an object of derision and a political martyr for both parties, is suddenly Capitol Hill's most-wanted man.
Trump's racism was always plain to see, from his birther attacks on Barack Obama's citizenship to his derision of black athletes and African and Caribbean countries.
While Boomers receive a lot of derision for their privileges, they're also not immune to financial hardships like growing student loan debt, food insecurity and homelessness.
And some workout gear, he added, is downright ridiculous — the Shake Weight, a 2010s trend involving a modified dumbbell, is a particular target of his derision.
They have been met with contempt and derision from the political class who days before were fawning over the very same movement's leaders for their pluckiness.
Lahren exploded onto the political media scene after a series of viral videos that included her staunch support for Trump and her derision for his critics.
Republican lawmakers on the committee reacted to Mr. Cohen's testimony with derision, attacking him as a convicted perjurer, a Democratic patsy, a liar and a cheat.
Bannon expressed derision about the June 2016 meeting in which a Russian lawyer was said to have offered damaging information about Clinton, according to the book.
Asking the Internet to name the thing would have been worthy of derision as folly, but the alphabetical restriction elevates this folly to the sublime — the quixotic.
So when Jack started, very few people — certainly Wall Street did not applaud him, and he was the subject of some derision and a lot of attacks.
In another scenario, the ridicule and off-handed derision that was splattered on the act could have made people more ashamed of an aspect of their lifestyle.
The fact it's a robot doing the firestarting implies even more derision — the maker thinks so little of Trump's words that they won't even burn them manually.
Take, for example, her relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson, which, when it was acknowledged at all, tended to be the object of derision or salaciousness, or both.
" While he appreciated the clarification, Khan added that "it sounds so disingenuous because of his policies, because of his rhetoric of hatred, of derision, of dividing us.
Sarkozy's comments drew derision from his right-wing rivals and Socialist opponents, who branded the hyper-active politician for being out of touch with modern-day France.
Imagine if you had to endure a single week in a hate-filled world, crowded with enemies of your own making, the object of disgust and derision.
Back in 1989, famous viticulturist Richard Smart suggested that climate change would eventually impact wine production around the globe, and his assertion was met with widespread derision.
I feel the shame of sitting at that picnic table with Jill, hear that chorus kick in, voices thick with pity and derision: What was she thinking?
This time, the object of their derision is a 1943 horror film starring Lon Chaney Jr. as a mysterious visitor to the United States named Count Alucard.
He attacked the norms of American politics, singling out groups for derision on the basis of race and religion and attacking the legitimacy of the political process.
Imagine if you had to endure a single week in a hate-filled world, crowded with enemies of your own making, the object of disgust and derision.
"I remember the band being summoned to Gary Gersh's office to celebrate our album going gold," says Leary, recalling the period with both fondness and mild derision.
But over the last year, my derision of his music shifted to obsession; which is to say, I actually listened to it, and found myself completely hooked.
Even Roosevelt's children joked that he wanted to be "the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral," and Roosevelt was not above personal derision.
Plus, there was his past derision of Mr. McCain, who joined Ms. Murkowski and Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, in stalling Mr. McConnell's push for repeal.
After graduating she was able to get jobs with New York magazine and The New Yorker, writing about rock music, often in a way that invited derision.
And in keeping with a 2016 trend — on the heels of Mr. Trump's questioning "how stupid" Iowans could be — the voters themselves have been singled out for derision.
I don't give a damn about them—but they should be punished with derision and loss of reputation for their amoral destruction of the next generation of scholars.
" That drew swift derision from House GOP Whip Steve Scalise, who summarized it as "Take away 653 percent of your income and give it to leftist fantasy programs.
Zagury's insight into Abdeslam will no doubt be part of how France chooses to deal with Abdeslam, whose actions were already the subject of much derision and puzzlement.
He did it in the face of derision from the nation's paper of record, which itself spent the era publishing cheerful paeans to the songs of a monster.
BERLIN — U.S. President Barack Obama was a subject of derision Saturday as hundreds of thousands of Germans across the country marched against a White House-backed trade deal.
But the timing, and the fact that in October Singapore signed a free-trade deal with the EU, drew derision from Remain supporters and dismay from hard-Brexiteers.
The ex-Directioner and current Gigi Hadid-dater posted a link to his mom's best friend's GoFundMe and was met with more or less immediate scorn and derision.
The term "suffragette," first used in 1906 as a term of derision, was assigned to any activist who fought for a woman's right to vote in public elections.
French brands like Whispering Angel began marketing their traditional unsweet rosés to Americans, transforming the coral-colored liquid from an object of derision into an aspirational status symbol.
If Trump insulted his way to the presidency, Chapo is insulting the Democrats to move the party leftward, using mockery and derision to push for a socialist America.
As May mingled with octogenarians and millennials and shared local trivia over tea and biscuits, her strategy was being met with a mixture of derision, gratitude and curiosity.
While Jefferson brilliantly argued that a free press is a vital guarantor of all other freedoms, Trump like Putin treats the free press with scorn, derision and contempt.
Speaking in the terms of derision he usually applies to political rivals, Mr. Trump said without elaborating that Mr. Bloomberg had "personal problems" and applied a derisive nickname.
To rally their followers, they have blanketed Sana with portraits of the group's founder, Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, with a zeal that has brought derision even from members.
It has also made the network a target of derision by those who feel it is more a mouthpiece for the Republican Party than a legitimate news network.
His voice dripping with derision, he then imitated her being questioned at the hearing, followed by her responses about what she could not recall about the alleged attack.
Sometimes earning praise and derision online as "Hillary unchained," Clinton is far more candid and forthcoming in the documentary than she was for most of the 2016 campaign.
But this time, Americans suffered the added humiliation of watching the world burst out laughing at their president, whose false bravado no longer induces shock but invites derision.
" Russian social media erupted with a certain amount of derision about the whole enterprise, particularly since the link in Russian to the page translated as "publications and refutations.
It has been a target of derision by American leaders since the Arab oil embargo of 2014 caused long lines at the pump and badly damaged the economy.
And he was one of wrestling's most visible characters, whether inviting the crowd at ringside to shower him with derision or bantering on television about a forthcoming match.
If in an age of over-tourism, companies like Explorer X helped some people embrace a more thoughtful, sustainable form of travel, how could I justify my derision?
But the policies and pronouncements that have flowed from this promise have in fact made the United States, and his presidency, the object of disbelief, alarm, even derision.
If mercy droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven, derision spurts up as though from a pantomime geyser, drenching the braggart and the fool in the foulest ordures.
Unfortunately, tribes faced with these challenges are met with derision and criticism from those who demonstrate little to no understanding of the importance and value of tribal sovereignty.
These scapegoats are meant to inspire solidarity in a group by providing an object for its hostility (or derision), and educators and civic leaders should not play along.
Maneuvering at state-backed airlines like Air France-KLM and Italy's struggling Alitalia drew derision from the head of Europe's largest low-cost airline, Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary.
Amid the fistfights and chants of "Lock her up," Trump called out a reporter by name to his angry crowd (and regularly singled out news organizations for derision).
Snorts of derision are a perfectly standard response, as are guilty snickers; you may also feel mesmerized, baffled, and disgusted, all in the space of a single scene.
Mr. Trump made Nafta one of his favorite targets of derision during the presidential campaign, using it to blame Democrats for the loss of millions of industrial jobs.
But even as cities across Mexico become more tolerant — with big gay and lesbian communities emerging in Mexico City and Oaxaca — transgender women are still treated with derision.
The revelation that parents hire video game tutors has prompted a mixture of negative reactions from certain excitable corners of the internet: Shock, incredulity, disgust, derision, even outright horror.
" Goldberg added that "civility police" would point out that conservatives had equal disdain for President Barack Obama – but the derision isn't equal, in her eyes, because Trump is "racist.
The conversations around #AllMyMovies and #TakeMeAnywhere were largely positive; the reaction to a Shia LaBeouf stunt was no longer derision, but the desire to be a part of it.
Early attempts by newspapers to put up digital "paywalls" floundered, and met with derision from critics and competitors vaunting the internet's ability to generate huge audiences for free content.
Thankfully, they persevered, but imagine how bloodless and boring modern metal would be without Hellhammer (and Venom, and Bathory, who were greeted with similar derision) to light the way?
It can also signal derision; for example, many people have condemned the Mac Miller stans who blamed Miller's ex-girlfriend Ariana Grande for the rapper's drug abuse and death.
On his Twitter account (which is a must-follow), he replies to people tweeting at him pictures of their, uh, culinary masterpieces with the derision we've come to love.
Kali and Ponna, a couple who are erotically wrapped up in each other, withstand waves of derision because they have not conceived a child after a decade of marriage.
The contentious regulation from the Interior Department immediately faced derision, both from the industry due to its $2.05 billion cost, and from environmentalists for not completely blocking Arctic drilling.
Queer narratives and imagery are amusing or novel for awhile, and then the tides turn back, acceptance wanes, and what was fashionable returns to being an object of derision.
At Cannes, the film was met with derision; one review proclaimed it "one of the worst films ever made" while another lamented its failure to build a focused narrative.
" That softness and soulfulness at times earned him derision, as when Newsweek published a cover story about his 1988 presidential campaign that was titled "Bush Battles the Wimp Factor.
On Tuesday evening, when Mr. Farrell was appointed by a 6-3 vote, some members of the public howled in derision, including many African-American supporters of Ms. Breed.
The derision has been unstinting, and the tensions have been mounting, even with European allies, to the point that Mr. Macron briefly recalled France's ambassador to Italy this year.
There have been so many embarrassments with so many nominees that a few who'd be in the foreground of the news otherwise have been spared the derision they deserve.
A statement by one legislator, Pyotr O. Tolstoy — a descendant of the writer — that Russians would happily drink brewed tree bark instead of using American medicine provoked widespread derision.
The Wikileaks proposal was met with instant derision on social media, with many blasting the group for wanting to disclose the personal information of hundreds of thousands of people.
The avant-garde style that King Missile developed bridged Patti Smith and Weird Al: vivid spoken-word narratives delivered with smirking derision, rattled over jaunty organ and spiky guitar.
Instead, his massive ears make him an object of derision -- at least, until he surprises the two kids by Inhaling a feather and promptly blasting himself into the air.
Both ads were the subject of derision on social media, with some suggesting that the protagonist of the constipation commercial should try eating Taco Bell to solve his problem.
All I'm asking is this: The next time you see a headline or a news story talking about the space video games occupy in our culture, don't leap to derision.
After much derision by many establishment Republicans and social conservatives alike during the primaries, Donald Trump put forward actual candidates and gave skeptics a reason to support him in November.
It's a perpetual chore to police the internet for each and every slight derision, but PepsiCo's case suggests the company is up to the task, and apparently so is India.
However, Eubank has inarguably angered people with two comments made over the last couple of weeks—derision Langford and Warren could never match their plans to fight Eubank being scuppered.
The video starts with May as King Arthur calling a general election, but being met with derision as it's revealed that her cabinet is actually a group of dancing knights.
Its own engineers and scientists admit that the machines were hopelessly ridden with errors and problems, but concerns about their shortcomings were met with derision from the company's upper management.
"Rick and Morty is anime " is a recurring Twitter troll that's met with 50 shades of ironic derision, unironic scorn, and wistfulness for an actual Rick and Morty anime episode.
Revelations of an alleged Russian intelligence operation to murder opponents and spread chaos across the European Union were met with a mix of wonder and derision in the intelligence community.
She took the role of Shug, a woman whose sexual appetites make her an object of derision, as well as desire, only after consulting with her pastor in Wheaton, Ill.
Mr. Trump marshaled blue-collar white and working-class voters disaffected by globalization and multiculturalism, waging a campaign that traded in derision and attacked the legitimacy of the political process.
The president's derision of Democrats was in stark contrast with the message the White House has sought to sell ahead of his State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
While amassing his war chest, Hinkie endured three years of ridicule and derision; he was accused of being more spreadsheet than human, of befouling the Great American Spirit of Sports.
The first is derision about the shoddy business reasoning: Well-run companies don't just spend recklessly with no plan or intention to stop if revenues don't come in as hoped.
Responding to a barrage of derision for linking the likes of Thucydides and the founding fathers with Justin Bieber, Mr. Billington said the tweets would be valuable to historians someday.
Mr. Trump's assertion drew derision from critics who accused him of getting way ahead of a long, arduous negotiation to translate the gauzy words of Singapore into a workable plan.
"They have to face hostility and derision and threats sometimes, simply because they want to make something sensible out of the senselessness and the loss they feel," Mr. Koskoff said.
White has long been a bit of an outsider among his peers, many of whom view his commercial appeal and embrace of fame with a mix of derision and jealousy.
But it didn't always work: His initial attempt to pivot back to climate change, when asked about diversity in the Democratic field, was met with derision from some audience members.
The things we deride as being "thirsty" are the things that lack value in the eyes of the macho, leather-faced American individualist, so they invite macho, stone-faced derision.
Will it be Trump the diplomat, as we've occasionally seen, or Trump the agitator — always a possibility considering the derision the president has heaped on the U.N. in the past?
The new charges are unrelated to Shkreli's tenure as CEO of Turing Pharmaceutical, where he inspired worldwide derision for steeply raising the price of a medication used for malaria patients.
Duque's promise to hold a social issues-focused national dialogue through March has sparked derision among marchers and opposition politicians, who see it as a tepid response to growing discontent.
The time and energy expended on this effort, one met even by many other Jews with derision and worse, grew out of the promises set out in the Republican platform.
In an interview with POLITICO last year, de Blasio declared Sanders would have defeated Trump had he been the nominee — a proclamation that earned him more derision from Team Clinton.
Traveling through rebel-held Aleppo in the spring of this year, I found President Obama and the US were rarely spoken about, except with a cluck of bitter disappointment and derision.
The kind of derision and bullying that occupies social media isn't something that you can easily opt out of as a world of people mobilize using the media that surrounds us.
The majority of the audience, in a Riocentro arena that was barely half full, reacted to the score announcement with derision while a pocket of Russian fans waved flags and celebrated.
Bresch became a target of derision over the summer after a nearly 500% increase in the cost of the lifesaving allergy drug EpiPen, which is one of the company's signature products.
This kind of easy derision may have worked for him in a long career that began nearly 50 years ago, but Trump has a lot to learn about mothers in 2016.
As late as the mid-fourth century, by which point Britain had been a Roman province for 300 years, the very notion of a cultured Briton could generate snorts of derision.
Donald Trump's campaign once again drew derision from critics, this time for Donald Trump Jr.'s comparison of Syrian refugees to a bowl of skittles with a scattering of poisoned candies.
Its swell gets at a kind of vague discomfort we have with male camaraderie, even though certain comrade cohorts — like the dudes in ''Entourage'' or at Donald Trump events — invite derision.
President François Hollande, facing near-certain defeat in elections next year, told television interviewers that "things are getting better," which only provoked derision in the news media and on the streets.
Back in February, Prince's music arrived on streaming services, despite the derision he held for them in his life—his music was pulled from all of them but TIDAL in 2015.
This plan bears some similarity to the proposed use of facial recognition cameras and software by the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL), which was met with opposition and derision from fans.
Actress and director Asia Argento received a hero's welcome at the march in Rome, after facing public derision when she came forward accusing producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault last year.
Weibo's announcement that it was seeking 1,000 recruits to become supervisors to report illegal content online — the definitions of which can be expansive — was met by derision on its own site.
The film's most important distinction is that it is told from an Afrocentric point of view; it breaks with the spirit of derision that has always saturated Hollywood films about Africans.
A tall man with a gray-flecked beard and a dry sense of humor, Nystad is not bothered that he turns up in Norway's headlines exclusively as an object of derision.
I am a thin white woman, and the shame and derision I have experienced for failing to be even thinner is nothing compared with what women in less compliant bodies bear.
Gov. Mike Pence is among a dozen or so Republican governors who have participated in Obamacare's Medicaid expansion — a decision that has earned him praise from liberals and derision from conservatives.
He was booed and jeered mercilessly during the World Cup in England, and his presence at Edgbaston in this Test match was met with loud derision from a partisan home crowd.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden criticized President Donald Trump's reaction to the coronavirus outbreak, using it as a rebuke to the president's derision toward the former vice president's ability to lead.
The French artist duo Pierre et Gilles took the derision further in 2014 when they photographed Zahia Dehar, a scandalous Parisian escort turned lingerie designer, as a modern-day Marie Antoinette.
Mr Trump has often singled out Ms Omar and Ms Tlaib—along with two other first-term non-white congresswomen, Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—for unbecoming abuse and derision.
The credit rating agency has also earned universal derision for what one lawmaker called a "stunningly inadequate" response, which included an apparent attempt to limit customers' rights to sue the company.
In the struggling manufacturing city of Claremont, Buttigieg noted his prior visit there for a town hall hosted by conservative news network Fox News drew derision from some in his party.
But NMAAHC is clear on this: "Minstrelsy, comedic performances of 'blackness' by whites in exaggerated costumes and makeup, cannot be separated fully from the racial derision and stereotyping at its core."
Obama did blast Trump during the midterm election campaign, and he has criticized particular Trump policies on rare occasions, but he has generally refused to respond to Trump's barrage of derision.
Last July, widespread derision followed a photo of Christie and his family lounging on a beach that had otherwise been closed to the public during the shutdown, which lasted three days.
One confronts a particular episode in the history of blackface, with all its attendant pain and derision, while the other is preoccupied with a particular blue and its associations with genocide.
For this police department to make a joke out of something that has caused real fear, derision, and permanent consequences in communities is, at least, tone-deaf and, at most, super offensive.
The only article about a woman not to be explicitly concerned with her sexuality offered derision instead—a reviewer of "Personal Shopper" is shocked to discover that Kristen Stewart can actually act.
It had opened in Paris in 1953, and its American premiere, in January 1956 at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Florida, where it was billed as a comedy, prompted walkouts and derision.
Is it accurate to refer to Hollywood as a whole—a tremendously moneyed industry that often faces derision and charges of elitism, cronyism, and nepotism—as a place where outsiders truly thrive?
Just over a year ago when the president first raised allegations that the Obama administration had surveilled the Trump campaign and transition team, he was met with all the skepticism and derision.
But this triggered derision in some quarters of the EU. The summit in Athens drew criticism from German lawmaker Manfred Weber who chairs the European Peoples Party Group in the European parliament.
The true-blue fear in Dawson's eyes when she encounters her abuser after years apart cannot inspire foot stomping from midnight madness crowds looking for a for a target of ironic derision.
JSL Singh, who produced the song "Pindaan Wale Jatt", points out that tracks that have explicitly stated that one caste is superior to another have been met with derision from bhangra fans.
Alas, even in our forward-thinking age, women often can wear men's clothing without turning any heads, but men still cannot wear women's clothing without drawing laughter and derision from many corners.
President Donald Trump invited derision on Monday when he said, "nobody knew health care could be so complicated," yet he was merely revealing he had been taken in by those very promises.
This ceaseless positivity may be annoying to those of an older generation, but it's one of the few ways to balance the cynicism and derision and hate that proliferate on the internet.
Derision is useful for one half of politics—defeating the opposing party—but has nothing to say to the crucial other half of forming alliances that can govern effectively for the people.
And though they'd all receive their own mixture of commercial success and critical derision, they were never given prime placements on shows like TRL, which was still a director of youth culture.
However, recommendations put out by the mayor's office that women stay in groups and keep an "arm's length" away from strangers in the name of safety have been greeted with general derision.
The Trump administration's decision to release the economic portion of its peace plan without any discussion of political solutions has prompted a mixture of derision and exasperation among Arab politicians and commentators.
Two presenters mispronounced the names of members of the show's creative team on the air, and the derision from many of the participants, among them Carol Burnett and Zero Mostel, was notable.
But this isn't the same world in which Clinton grew up, where highly educated women routinely faced unequal treatment at school, the derision of their male peers, and even constrained marital prospects.
The campaign's decision to release an ad placing him alongside the figurehead of the Democratic Party was met with confusion by journalists and a prominent Obama aide and derision from Biden staffers.
Thoreson pointed to previous efforts in South Dakota to curb transgender rights: In 2019, a proposed ban on transgender athletes competing as the gender they identify with was met with sharp derision.
Instead of wrestling with a monstrous, chemically induced id, however, Latif's soft-spoken Jekyll struggled with his rage from a lifetime of personal and professional derision on account of his "half-caste" identity.
Several people, liberals as well as conservatives, demanded that Ms Wolf apologise for mocking Mrs Sanders's appearance—though of course Mr Trump has made juvenile derision of people's looks his stock-in-trade.
That, for some reason, has become the source of derision for certain Australian viewers, who were angrily tweeting because SBS TV presenter Lucy Zelić was pronouncing the names of players and coaches correctly.
Instead of thanking these bands for keeping the spirit alive in the dark days, a new generation of heavy metal fans rose from the mall metal ashes and regarded the genre with derision.
The English Patient The Judgement: NETFLIX ORIGINAL After a traumatic incident at a party makes her a target of gossip and derision, a young college student tries to change her school's toxic culture.
What is happening is that Trump is turning his campaign of insults and derision of one group of voters after another against a growing number of GOP congressional leaders and respected Republican senators.
"We have never seen a President put forward a major legislative piece in his early days that was greeted with such derision and such fear," Gergen told CNN's Don Lemon on Monday night.
Iran says it has been developing its own stealth technology for fighter jets and vessels, but the prototypes it has unveiled in recent years have mostly been met with derision by defense experts.
Many businessmen echo the supreme leader's derision: "How come they didn't negotiate the process of financial reintegration—which banks would transfer the frozen assets, how much and when?" asks a market analyst, aghast.
Even when Donald Trump offers career opportunities, from his beauty pageants to his real estate business, there is a steep price for women in his orbit to pay, including crude humiliation and derision.
A Bulgarian Four Paws employee, Vasil Dimitrov, speaks to Szabłowski with derision of the "dumb, grasping Gypsy"—who is, in his account, as greedy, cunning, and stupid as the bears of European fables.
That gets you in the ballpark of where the Trump administration said things would be, an estimate that continues to meet derision from much of the economic community, and the president's political foes.
As a graduate student working in AI in the mid-1980s, I recall that the general public reception of it was mild derision, with multiple books on the implausibility of the very field.
When she watched Bella's rehearsals with derision, or when she dismissed Bella's attentiveness with unseeing eyes, was she refraining from doing harm, or was she, familiar with conquest and surrender, relishing her power?
Clinton, whose remarks elicited both polite applause and derision, riffed off Trump's derogatory remarks about women's appearances, such as joking in a 2002 radio interview that they become less attractive after age 35.
After peaking in the late 1980s to mid-90s, they weathered two decades of derision— clinging to the waists of lifestyle rollerbladers—only to resurface as unlikely style staples of the mid-2010s.
Still, it is unlikely that news of the acquisition will be met with celebrations in Gannett's newsrooms across the country, as MNG's aggressive cost-cutting tactics have earned derision from plenty of journalists.
They know how to hold an audience's attention and with a mix of humor, derision and venom, they are able to frighten citizens or amuse them — or do both at the same time.
During December's national elections, the head of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, vowed to nationalize key industries including railways, earning him widespread derision as a man effectively inclined to turn Britain into Venezuela.
The government's analysis was met with derision by pro-Brexit lawmakers, who quickly reminded voters that Brexit opponents had issued similar prophecies of economic doom before the referendum, only to be proved wrong.
In campaign rallies before the midterm elections, Mr. Trump and Republican candidates singled out the state as a subject of derision over its high taxes, embrace of "sanctuary cities" or liberal social policy.
With both sets of fans in the 54,000 crowd at Brasilia's Mane Garrincha stadium howling in derision, players from both sides had to push-start the ambulance to bring it back to life.
As Cruz sought to reason with the men, he was met with derision about being born in Canada, insults about his wife's employer and doubts about his chances of being the GOP nominee.
But the truth is that the president's bizarre and ludicrous statements about climate change policy are making him and his administration the subject of derision in Europe and other parts of the world.
Iran says it has been developing its own stealth technology for fighter jets and vessels, but the prototypes it has unveiled in recent years have mostly been met with derision by defence experts.
Prime Minister Edi Rama called it "a victory for a European Albania," while opposition Democratic Party head Lulzim Basha said the very low turnout meant "the farce was rejected with an epic derision".
His remarks came as he spoke about the need for unity, including a call for bipartisanship that has drawn derision from some liberals who don't see room for compromise in today's polarized Washington.
"While the neighbors allegedly liked the technicolor figurines, the paint job has been the subject of heated derision, with Spain's art conservation association ACRE reportedly characterizing it as the "continued pillaging in our country.
WHEN President Donald Trump, King Salman of Saudi Arabia and Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's president, laid their hands on a glowing orb in Riyadh last year, the theatrical gesture provoked bewilderment and derision.
But the Athens summit drew outright derision from some European Union policymakers who saw it as an attempt by Greece to ease pressure over the reforms needed under a multi-billion euro bailout accord.
Among them are Senators John McCain of Arizona, who was one of Mr. Trump's earliest targets of derision, and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, who has struggled to respond to Mr. Trump's inflammatory talk.
No longer an object of derision in Turkey — and with the backing of the Islamist government — the head scarf has spurred an Islamic fashion revolution, complete with fashion houses, magazines, bloggers and Instagram stars.
Johnson was met with derision by some audience members when he claimed his word could be trusted, while Corbyn was pushed to explain his response to claims of anti-Semitism within the Labour party.
The details of this speech, including Trump's derision of his former opponent, his attacks on President Obama, and his discussion of an R-rated (or X-rated) yacht trip, have already been recounted elsewhere.
The fact that so many are ungrateful does not deter him: he accepts that, like any of the great men in history who have dared to go against the grain, he must endure derision.
Aside from his dumb derision directed at so-called "Republican talking points" (more on that later), Booker was a happy warrior -- balancing attacks (primarily against former Vice President Joe Biden) with an optimistic demeanor.
This past week, liberals, progressives and others protesting Mr. Trump's comments about Haiti, El Salvador, and the countries of Africa understandably rushed to defend them as beautiful, dignified places unworthy of his vulgar derision.
Some police from outside the region have been billeted on cruise liners moored outside the Port of Barcelona — and turned into objects of separatist derision because the ships are decorated with Looney Tunes characters.
This prompted howls of derision on Egyptian social media, because Mr. Sisi had served for years in a military known for generous salaries, rising to be head of intelligence and eventually the entire system.
The decision was met with applause from Republicans and state leaders in the affected states, but derision from Democrats and environmentalists, who said it would allow trophy hunting and other harms to the bears.
Today, people like them who dare venture into this "There Be Dragons" territory on the intellectual map have met with outrage and derision — even, or perhaps especially, from people who pride themselves on openness.
In his speeches, Sisi has sought to persuade Egyptians that a collective sacrifice is necessary to save the country from financial ruin, even urging people to donate spare change, comments that drew online derision.
And the band did no better during its 13 and a half minutes onstage, in a performance that was dynamically flat, mushy at the edges, worthy of something much worse than derision: a shrug.
Our cultural thesaurus has reduced the word mutant to a term of derision, but if you think mutation is a dirty word, you should probably stop reading—and probably stop eating plant-based food too.
It is critical that we do more because, today, the discipline of science is threatened by conspiracy theories, fake news, bogus scholarship, and outright derision in an attempt to confuse Americans on the real facts.
But it does capably capture the density of feeling among people forced to live or work together, and the way complicated emotions surface in small ways: an eye-roll here, a grunt of derision there.
Perhaps most important though, his consistent values, his willingness to identify as a socialist and say what he thought, even when it brought derision from party insiders, imbued Sanders with a sense of moral authenticity.
These positions have received near-unanimous derision from economists, who see them as crude and costly tools that would do little to increase the number of American manufacturing jobs or revitalize cities like Wilkes-Barre.
Sepúlveda "led a team of hackers that stole campaign strategies, manipulated social media to create false waves of enthusiasm and derision, and installed spyware in opposition offices, all to help Peña Nieto," the story continues.
" That attitude earned him derision from Mr. Trump's inner circle, including the president's former chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who once said Mr. Ryan had been "born in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation.
Only when Ms. Hässle tries to supplicate the imperious Ms. Bürkle, honestly pouring out her maternal desires to Elektra's derision and scorn, does Mr. Rasche's industrially rigorous "machine theater" succeed on an emotional, human level.
Cousins, who came to Golden State last summer amid great fanfare — and ample derision from people who thought his addition made the team even more unbeatable — has proved to be a significant liability on defense.
"President Trump issued threats, openly discussed possible retaliation, made insinuations about witnesses' character and patriotism, and subjected them to mockery and derision," Democrats found, suggesting it could discourage witnesses from coming forward in the future.
One of the most outspoken supporters of Mr. Trump in Silicon Valley has been Mr. Thiel, a founder of PayPal, who has since faced derision from other people working in tech for his political stance.
A multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed last week by the Democratic National Committee against more than a dozen defendants, including Russia, WikiLeaks and the Trump campaign, has been met with equal portions of support and derision.
His derision toward the employee bonuses was part of a broader and continuing criticism of the Trump administration's economic policies, and more recently the reform plan Congress passed in November that slashes corporate tax rates.
That is more satisfying still when the object of your feminist derision is someone richer and more powerful than you, who can be easily melted down into a warped plastic caricature of an actual human woman.
Waring expressed derision toward both the prosecutor, who failed to make his case, and Shull's defense attorney, who told the jury that if his client was convicted, white women and children would no longer be safe.
With Cohn stepping down, the revival of "globalist" as a term of derision against him raises the prospect that Trump intends to fill vacancies with "nationalists" and take a more protectionist tilt from here on out.
When he took a job at NOAA studying fish in 1999, he remembered his Berkeley classmates being surprised he chose a job so practical, so applied, as some scientists who favor theoretical work say with derision.
But the stunt also risks becoming just another reason to scoff at the micro-mobility industry, which has started to become the object of derision among some consumers, drawing concern from politicians and skepticism from investors.
The House's decision to withdraw the subpoena drew derision from Republican senators who said it proved that the House was more concerned with rushing the impeachment process than ironing out tricky negotiations with the White House.
Although some of the most perceptive critics of Russia hysterics come from the left, often their response takes the form of exasperated derision—along with the lament that progressive agenda items are being woefully under-emphasized.
Former aides and allies of McConnell, who is often a target of derision by grass-roots conservatives, say he helped rekindle the GOP's fighting spirit and that he does not always get the respect he deserves.
YG is a Los Angeles native who knows the risks of "going Hollywood," a common expression of derision levelled at rappers from other cities who move to America's entertainment capital and shed their street bona fides.
The jury listened to some four dozen secretly recorded telephone conversations, many between the senator and his son, which contained angry rants by Adam Skelos about his father's political rivals — including a profane derision of Gov.
There were two versions: a new take on the familiar ram's head, an alteration that drew mostly negative feedback, and the primary logo, an abstract ram's horn swooping over a capitalized L.A., which drew mostly derision.
Wang Zhonglin, the party secretary of Wuhan, announced plans on Friday to teach the city's residents to be grateful to the party, a move that was quickly met with derision and anger on Chinese social media.
They broke that promise at the last moment, and a jostling scrimmage of reporters and camera crews was confined to a dais at the back of the hall where it became a handy target for derision.
Director Tom Harper (working from a script by Jack Thorne adapted from a book) then flashes back to Glaisher seeking support for the research, which is largely met with derision from those who might assist him.
The unveiling sparked a revolt among conservative Republicans, drew skepticism from moderates and derision from Democrats — even before it's clear how much the replacement plan will cost and how many people might lose their health care.
The holiday drink consists of a hazelnut crème Frappuccino with dried fruit and cinnamon, topped with whipped cream, caramel, and matcha in the company's spin on the fruitcake, a holiday gift that's faced derision over the years.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump took credit on Tuesday for a record year of safety for commercial aviation in 2017, swiftly drawing criticism and derision from commentators who said the achievement reflected trends predating his administration.
It started last August, with the Academy's attempt at creating a new category to honor "achievement in popular film," which was met by immediate derision and scorn on Twitter, until the Academy reversed course a month later.
Susan Collins, the Maine Republican who voted to acquit Trump on both articles of impeachment and endured widespread derision for saying she believed Trump had "learned from this case" and would be "much more cautious" going forward.
To revive settlement talks, Mr. Zelensky has already ordered his troops to pull back at some locations on the front line, a move that earned derision from his domestic critics, who called it a capitulation to Russia.
Trudeau did not see Fidel Castro during his official visit to Cuba in November His statement was met with puzzlement and derision by some Americans, including U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who is of Cuban descent.
It's fun to clown on the hubris of Uber and Lyft, both of which deserve every bit of derision that comes their way, but ultimately day-one returns don't say much about Slack's future on the NYSE.
For single people, they're a platform for seeking potential spouses; for fans, they're the subject of gossip and dissection; for the cultural elites, they're a topic for derision; and for the government, they're a target for surveillance.
Fears that Greece will tumble out of the euro have receded from a year ago, although Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's promise that Greece's May 20.8751 Orthodox Easter marked the country's "resurrection" was met with derision at home.
Attempts by the website to go "mainstream" over the last year — firing a reporter for wildly anti-Muslim tweets, for example — have been largely met with derision from the far right, still the site's most fervent readers.
But the first lady's assertion was met with derision and disbelief by some, who questioned whether it was true and said her choice to mention it amounted to an attempt to divide the country along racial lines.
LaBeija has reworked the expansive yet notoriously male-driven curriculum of the Bauhaus to shelter a queer, Black femme story of collective liberation, approaching the nuances of this history with the reverence and playful derision it deserves.
One evening in particular, I was practically inconsolable: Another showdown at work had sent me reeling, feeling trapped and isolated in a continual cycle of painful derision that I felt both responsible for and a victim of.
Some male DJs agreed with the female artists' sentiments, pointing out that many house tracks from the last few years would look similar under scrutiny, while others piled on the derision over Wants' act of alleged appropriation.
It was honest, but it was met with derision, and following poor reviews, he made the conscious decision to make his music more formulaic and less personal, writing detached lyrics and using spreadsheets to construct the songs.
"Switzerland" allows for a contrast between this most famously neutral of European locales and the ceaselessly downbeat, dyspeptic Highsmith, who holds forth on any number of subjects — all of which prompt her derision or scorn or worse.
What started as a spontaneous outburst of collective self-derision has been turned into a corporate gimmick: Netflix Italy is just trying to profit from the most famous, and most sorrowful, Christmas tree Rome has ever known.
When a politician in a small town in northern Sweden recently suggested that it subsidize one-hour sex breaks for local employees, Swedes — and people around the world — reacted with a mixture of astonishment, glee and derision.
In those newly cosmopolitan times — the Mad Men era, for shorthand's sake — the Anytown, USA, that Rockwell had depicted on hundreds of Post covers was becoming a curio at best and an object of derision at worst.
Etymologists differ on the origin of the lyrics, but Yankee typically referred to New Englanders, doodle was a term of derision and dandy was someone who affected sophistication (fashionable macaroni wigs also became a metaphor for foppishness).
This was after he had already publicly wept over the immigration ban and suffered the president's derision for doing so, and after he had announced that he would oppose most of the rest of the cabinet appointments.
But at the Hare and Hounds pub in Sunbury-on-Thames, England, in a neighborhood that voted strongly to leave the European Union, queries about a no-deal exit were met with shrugs and snorts of derision.
I suspect that the couple are a moderating influence on the administration, and I believe that some of the derision toward Ivanka has a sexist taint that would arouse more outrage if a liberal were the target.
But it was Mr. Christie who was the most pointed and personal in his derision of Mr. Rubio — a strategy that may not ultimately bring him votes, but could wound Mr. Rubio just as he has been ascending.
Patricia publishes a paper on how trees are capable of their own form of chemical communication, and becomes a figure of derision in her field for years due to research that will later be accepted as widespread truth.
Unlike so many other movies about romance between men, from Brokeback Mountain to Stranger by the Lake, the love that develops between Elio and Oliver isn't marked by derision, violence, or the consequences of breaking with hetero norms.
Clinton's memoir -- especially because of her attacks against Sanders -- has been met with derision from liberal Democrats, who view her as a divisive figure who shouldn't complicate current Democratic Party politics with a return to the public eye.
In the beginning, as Lewis points out, fantasy leagues used conventional measures of performance, because that's all there was—things like earned-run average and runs batted in, categories that the scorers in "Moneyball" would view with derision.
While the convenience of the device is clear to some people, it quickly became the target of derision, with other people claiming it's the latest proof that technology is slowly turning us into spoiled overly tech-dependent sloths.
I wouldn't say that digging melodeath is seen as a feminine trait in and of itself; rather, that my doing so while also occupying a teenage girl's body compounded any derision aimed at my wimpy music choices tenfold.
Juicero has had no lack of monetary support, raising around $120 million since launching in 2013, news that was met with a fair amount of derision for some, as a sort of poster child for Silicon Valley excesses.
Protesters said they were particularly upset with Virginia Raggi, who in 2016 became the ancient city's first female mayor with much fanfare, but has since become an object of derision for her failure to halt the city's decline.
The resulting schism has been easy to caricature as the old struggle between hard scientists and humanists — a suspicion of all geneticists as quantitative imperialists, a derision of all archaeologists as sentimental Luddites — but that isn't quite accurate.
RIYADH/AMMAN/CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab politicians and commentators greeted U.S. President Donald Trump's $50 billion Middle East economic vision with a mixture of derision and exasperation, although some in the Gulf called for it to be given a chance.
To be sure, some leaders from influential black churches have been vocal in their derision of the gay rights movement, and many black voters are indeed heavily influenced by their historic and cultural ties to their pastors and congregations.
WHEN Melania Trump called for a gentler, kinder politics and an end to cyberbullying in a stump speech in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, on November 3rd, it prompted howls of derision and disbelief among many political observers, especially on social media.
The Queen Elizabeth, which was specially built for F-35B operations, has also been the subject of derision over its lack of an air wing — including jokes that the British navy had built an aircraft carrier with no aircraft.
His apparent inability to enunciate has made him the object of some derision over the years, but for the most part, he has a legitimately soulful, huge voice that even the harshest reviewers haven't been able to truly fault.
Taking their place for widespread derision are the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and New England professors and Hollywood actors and Acela corridor media pundits—people who, allegedly but not always in reality, got where they are through skill and commitment.
The lurid image of the Junkie Whore — made up of media representations, misogyny, the blemish of criminalization, the defensive derision of other sex workers, and the exclusion of the straight world — looms over drug-using sex workers, obscuring us.
We can't know because far from drawing widespread derision after his anti-Muslim pronouncement, Trump's popularity within the GOP skyrocketed and exit polls in various GOP primaries found that almost two-thirds of Republican voters agreed with his proposal.
Every piety that the speaker utters, every moral posture that he strikes, will be received with derision by anyone who remembers the months that he spent urging Americans, albeit through gritted teeth, to make Donald Trump commander in chief.
"Our history, our faith and our values teach us that we cannot sit idly by when others are singled out for derision and when intolerance is fed," Mr. Greenblatt wrote, describing Mr. Trump's comments about immigrants and Muslims. Mrs.
Mr. Salvini and Mr. Di Maio have at times spoken with disgust or derision about the yield spread between Italian and German 10-year benchmark bonds as if it were just another political enemy to be demonized or ridiculed.
But it's hard to escape the way Ms. Pelosi, like Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin before her, became lightning rods for derision and contempt, expressed in ways that compound lingering stereotypes, whether or not we want to acknowledge them.
And in attempting to refute testimony from a cavalcade of witnesses who have spent their careers in the intelligence community or foreign service, Trump's attorneys pointed to one of the president's favorite target of derision: Mueller and the FBI.
These informal tête-à-têtes between network bigwigs and candidates are a standard feature of the election process but rarely result in dramatic changes: After the meeting, the network's coverage of Sanders continued to oscillate between derision and dismissiveness.
Despite its rougher edges, the album's raw emotion and radio-ready hooks found a mass audience — and a fair amount of critical derision — as part of the growing nu-metal boom led by acts like Korn and Limp Bizkit.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's outgoing government said on Tuesday it would bestow the country's top honor for foreigners on Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, a decision quickly met with derision by critics on social media.
With a film crew in tow, the shows were also intended to provide material for the amorphous "Renaldo and Clara," a film that ran nearly four hours when it was released in 21945 and met with near-universal derision.
For-profit universities are generally viewed with scorn and derision, and not without reason; many of them are seen as nothing more than complex Ponzi schemes for their investors, easy targets for the late-night rants of satirical comedians.
With that support in mind, the fact that there's been so much partisan opposition to and "expert" derision of Trump's "build the wall" plan just goes to show how skewed and corrupt politics and political punditry has become in America.
For example, there's been a fair bit of derision aimed at the CGI used to save money, like the copy-pasted crowds of Gladiator and the Star Wars prequels, which fill the frame with all the presence of TV static.
Your leader endorsing Hillary Clinton ("America's best hope", November 5th) was full of this stock-in-trade derision, even though many see Mrs Clinton as the queen of a corrupt consortium of big government, unions, media, academic and Hollywood interests.
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday hailed the return of Britain's classic blue passport as a benefit of leaving the EU, pleasing Brexit campaigners for whom it is a symbol of national sovereignty but attracting derision from many remainers.
According to numerous sources speaking to The Verge, a combination of bad business practices, an outdated marketing strategy, and the lingering derision born from the botched relaunch of the company in 2015 have kept the service from becoming a serious challenger.
Derision directed at selfie-taking seems to me unnecessarily vitriolic, and well, I want to offer up some defense at selfie-taking, even in "excess," and encourage you to ask yourself why you think selfies are annoying, if you do.
Behind the scenes, Vice President Mike Pence has played a key outreach role, leaning on his longstanding relationships with senators -- even those who are frequent targets of Trump's derision -- to help underscore the point that they're all on the same team.
When I asked a devoted, elfin publicist in sequined basketball shorts the color of aquarium gravel if his colleagues had dressed up especially for the show, he looked at me with confusion, barely contained derision and maybe a bit of pity.
For example, the Berlin government, which is run by the center-left Social Democrats, is pushing the idea of retrofitting public buildings with gender-neutral bathrooms, including gender-neutral urinals — a plan that has attracted no small amount of public derision.
The statement attributed to Ms. Skripal, 33, met with derision from the Russian authorities, who described it as "an interesting read," pointedly noting that there was no way to verify it, and suggesting that the remarks contained more questions than answers.
Over the years, Ms. Gabbard's straight, blunt talk about war and her independent streak when it comes to foreign policy have won her praise from the right and derision from the Democratic mainstream, all of which could cost her now.
It is possible that it could have been, and that the Civil War was an avoidable tragedy; this was the pious consensus of 50 years ago, which the current occupant of the White House still expresses — usually to progressive derision.
"This seeming contradiction — that Shadd Cary would be viewed simultaneously as an object of respect and leadership and as an object of derision," Rhodes wrote in the foreword of her biography, "is central to the story of the African-American woman."
As an example, he cited liberals' derision earlier this year when a news report noted that Vice President Mike Pence once said that he avoids dining alone with women who aren't his wife — something some practicing Muslim men do, too.
"In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally," Trump wrote in a tweet in November 2016 that caused shock, bafflement and even derision.
To announce an eye-watering $20 trillion government-run health care program as a central pillar of one's platform would have, a decade ago, earned any politician derision and mockery while sinking his/her chances for ever running for president.
Although tennis, another sport of elite clubs, did not endure that level of derision, money for it dried up in favor of the government's priorities: baseball, boxing, volleyball and other sports Cuba went on to excel at on the international stage.
Also potentially becoming a factor in the equation, Arab politicians and commentators greeted Trump's $50 billion Middle East economic vision with a mixture of derision and exasperation, although some in the Gulf called for it to be given a chance.
Newhouse, born in New York in 1927, was considered a quiet, unassuming, and meticulous publishing magnate, known for poring over details of his magazines just prior to publication and for shepherding brands from places of obscurity or derision into signatures of American culture.
Much of the derision toward Evans was racially motivated, and detractors latched onto moments like the time he grabbed his crotch and blew a kiss at Griffin mid-fight, using those tame transgressions as evidence that he was bad for the sport.
From being an object of derision among the private sector, there's a growing awareness, thanks in part to the work of President Obama's Presidential Innovation Fellows (and other public-private partnerships fostered by the administration) that government and tech aren't such strange bedfellows.
In December, for example, the Hollywood Reporter infamously published a roundtable discussion "on avoiding ethnic stereotypes and how to 'break the mold' of princesses" featuring Seth Rogen and six other white men: The article was met with widespread derision online and eyerolls offline.
In closing, Lauren, I—and whatever portable restroom operators placed the units during your lifetime that have prompted such derision in your article—regret that you haven't had the kind of experiences that are possible in a well-chosen, well-placed portable restroom.
The initial announcement was predictably met with derision and backlash on social media, largely from film critics and pundits who suggested the purpose of the award was to acknowledge immediately popular films like Black Panther without diluting the Academy's self-perceived gravitas.
"The Biggest Crime Scene in the World" When my OSCE team of international monitors -- referred to at the time as "the eyes and ears of the world" -- arrived at the crash site on July 18, rebel leaders met us with hostility and derision.
And why should those attempting to view the world and themselves honestly, critically, with empathy and idealism—however misguided their conclusions, impractical their methods, or unlikely their outcomes—be subject to greater derision than the cynical profiteers, the polluters, and the narcissists?
America's 22017th President wants to be associated with the signature achievement of his term: the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, a word his opponents coined as a term of derision before the President embraced it and made it his own.
Looking like an idiot in public is Sean Spicer's considered decision; but for the national security adviser, public derision might be a small price to pay to avoid armed conflict or the deep compromise of the political independence of the intelligence services.
Christie became the subject of widespread mockery and derision after a New Jersey newspaper captured photos of the Republican governor and his family sunbathing on a beach that had been closed to the public over the holiday weekend due to the budget standoff.
She had been the target of derision from Brazilian fans from the moment the Olympics tournament began, and now she needed to rescue her teammates, who had quickly fallen behind in a penalty shootout against Sweden in a quarterfinals match in Brasília.
In justifying its tariffs as a response to a supposed threat to national security — a contention that has drawn derision from economists — the Trump administration has virtually ensured a challenge from the European Union via a complaint filed with the trade organization.
Younger voters are no longer beholden to the big-tent parties, in large part because the big-tent parties have no plan to engage with them — and when they do address the issues that young voters care about, it's with condescension, even derision.
While that earns him derision from some of the documentary's participants, including one 4chan user and a Republican strategist, the filmmakers emphasize the cool stuff that has come out of Pepe's internet fandom and the charm of his original incarnation in Boy's Club.
He has weathered complaints, even derision, from L.G.B.T.Q. progressives, many of whom say he's not gay enough, his manner and mannerisms too strait-laced, his policy preoccupations too moderate, his success infuriatingly reflective of how readily and well he assimilates into heterosexual America.
Those calls have only grown during a week of bipartisan derision for the FTC's proposed $5 billion privacy fine for Facebook — a historically large penalty by U.S. standards, but one that many lawmakers have called laughably small given the social networking giant's resources.
In May, when Labour's manifesto calling for free university education and increased spending on the National Health Service was leaked, Britain's mainstream press responded with derision: "Labour's Manifesto to Drag Us Back to the 1970s" read a headline in the Daily Mail.
Those explanations provoked derision and ridicule in newspapers and social media, while the prince was also criticised for failing to show sympathy for the victims of Epstein who killed himself in a U.S. prison in August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio Americans who tuned into the recent Intelligence Committee impeachment hearings are already familiar with Mr. Jordan, another fierce Trump defender whose pugnacious manner and sartorial choices — shirt and tie but never a jacket — have drawn derision among liberals.
Those explanations provoked derision and ridicule in newspapers and social media, while the prince was also criticized for failing to show sympathy for the victims of Epstein, who killed himself in a U.S. prison in August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Leading Republican Presidential candidates have advocated killing the families of ISIS members, carpet-bombing parts of Iraq and Syria, and deploying American ground troops on a large scale; none of these proposals have elicited as much popular derision as Obama's perceived passivity.
When pictures of Kim Kardashian West meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office started making the rounds online a few weeks ago, they were met with equal parts shock and derision from people on pretty much all sides of the political spectrum.
Shots has evolved from purely photo sharing (left) to now offer link sharing too (right) Shots has evolved from purely photo sharing (left) to now offer link sharing too (right) Launched in November 2013 to much derision, Shots has surprised the world with its success.
Once I'd reined in my derision of the show, I found myself tearing up a certain moments and getting emotionally invested in certain contestants (namely Kendall and Bekah M). Reality television is, of course, edited in such a way that elicits strong emotional reactions.
That fight, slated to take place at London's O2 Arena, was met with derision from fans who didn't rate Gjergjaj as a worthy challenger to a David Haye looking to get back into world heavyweight title contention—despite the challenger's perfect 29-0 record.
Trump's approach to North Korea, including his famous derision of its leader Kim Jong Un as "Little Rocket Man" and his talk about the size of his nuclear button, elicited a combination of fear and mockery from foreign policy experts and other elite voices.
Although I didn't think I had internalized our patriarchy's derision of women acting "crazy" or "hormonal," but a handful of times, after being whiplashed with constant nausea for so many days in a row, I would burst into tears, uncontrollably sobbing for hours on end.
For instance, it's a safe bet that ESOPs will draw derision from some right-wing skeptics as an impractical and utopian reform—and Exhibit A in that case will likely be the 2002 bankruptcy of United Airlines, which had been majority-owned by its employees.
But the derision ultimately turned into gratitude for the widow, Cecilia Giménez, now 86: The alterations had a divine effect on the economy of Borja, a struggling town of 5,000 people in northeast Spain, as Spanish and foreign tourists visited to view her handiwork.
This is worth noting because if Biscoito Globo has any flavor, manioc is its source — and because Brazil's embattled president, Dilma Rousseff, praised manioc in a speech last year as one of Brazil's greatest achievements, prompting antigovernment demonstrators to wave manioc in derision during protests.
Similarly, electing a female President means imagining new possibilities: that a woman might survive that gantlet of derision to hold power with confidence, without apology, to enlarge our notions of authority and hasten an age when a female President will no longer be exceptional.
The country of just 11.2 million people faces widening derision as being the world's wealthiest failed state — a worrying mix of deeply rooted terrorist networks; a government weakened by divisions among French, Dutch and German speakers; and an overwhelmed intelligence service in seemingly chronic disarray.
Things reached melodramatic heights on Monday night when his rather overstated reaction to having his foot stepped on during Brazil's 2-0 win over Mexico earned him a round of condemnation in the soccer world and a tidal wave of playful derision on social media.
As Boston College political scientist Dave Hopkins has shown, Sanders drew a lot of his support in part because his derision of Wall Street and Washington, DC — those who just generally wanted to say "fuck you" to the establishment — rather than his specific tax agenda.
It must be infuriating to have risen on the wings of your derision of that person's every decision, and even his very existence, and yet not be able to measure up — in either stratagem or efficacy — when you sit where that person once sat.
WEST ORANGE, N.J. — It has been two weeks since Senator Cory Booker claimed his "I am Spartacus" moment after releasing documents during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, earning mocking derision from conservatives who saw a presidential aspirant angling for a viral moment.
They also cite his bombast —from his vitriol directed at a Gold Star family and a disabled reporter to his derision of prisoners of war — that has turned off Republican suburban voters, who are typically supportive of "establishment" Republicans like Mitt Romney or John McCain.
His father Hee-bong (Byun Hee-bong) chides Gang-du's apathetic, alcoholic brother Nam-il (Park Hae-il) and champion archer sister Nam-joo (Bae Doona) for their derision of Gang-du, whom he says was deprived of adequate protein when he was a child.
The self-conscious coolness of the video met with some derision—"If I stop eye-rolling, I'll see you Tuesday," one art critic wrote—but the sale was a success, with the Kippenberger selling for $18.6 million, six million more than its high estimate.
New features that are meant to make Twitter more approachable for the masses, like algorithmically-sorted timelines and changing stars to hearts, tend to be met with skepticism and even derision from longtime users who still love to obsess over how their timelines looked 10 years ago.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats reacted with anger and derision on Tuesday to a Republican tax bill unveiled late Monday night without warning by the top tax law writer in the U.S. House of Representatives, just days before it was expected to be voted on by the House.
In a nation in which every newspaper has spent the last three years covering the economic and political questions around our exit from the European Union, there was an explosion of derision last year when model Hayley Hughes turned out not to know what "Brexit" meant.
Alongside Dufresne's joyful challenges, Frantino's celebration of male love and domesticity, as well as his imaginative transformations of motifs found in Picasso, suggests a shift has taken place in the art world: the age of derision, caricature, and imitation has lost whatever edge it once supposedly had.
Earlier this month, White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney was widely met with disbelief and derision when he defended the elimination of a federal after-school program that feeds low-income children by saying there was "no demonstrable evidence" that after-school programs improve school performance.
Hilary gets the job and makes her arguments throughout her rapid professional rise, never too worried about the derision of her atheistic peers, always lit from within by the memory of her child's adoption; she conducts research and commissions studies with the zeal of a martyr.
Through about 4103 paintings — a small sampling of the 2410,2000 or more this prolific painter and illustrator produced — the show examines the evolution of an artist who, while a household name in France, has for the past half-century been mostly the subject of derision here.
Bannon expressed derision and astonishment over the meeting in Trump Tower in New York in which a Russian lawyer was said to be offering damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, according to the book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" by Michael Wolff.
Mr. Biden's entry was met, particularly on social media, by a chorus of doubts at times bordering on derision from critics and progressive activists who questioned his age, his status as a white man and his political luggage from more than four decades in public life.
The pope has made a good and welcome start in acknowledging that his bishops did not tell him the truth and in opening his ears and heart to victims who have suffered not only sexual abuse, but also the derision of churchmen they tried to talk to.
Often mocked, ridiculed, and met with regular derision, these jean-legging hybrids have been cast to the bottom of fashion food chains — where everyone from The Daily Beast (deeming it "The Trend From Hell") to Cosmopolitan (detesting its "front pocket fake-out" effect) have taken critical swings.
Here's what you need to know: • A barrage of Senate confirmation hearings opens today in what promises to be a frenzied week in Washington, but some of the public focus was on President-elect Donald J. Trump's derision of the actress Meryl Streep after she criticized him.
In China, citizens have been detained, and even convicted and imprisoned, for much milder derision of Mr. Xi. When Facebook's system finds a word that does not have a translation, it makes a guess and replaces it with a word with similar syllables, Mr. Stone said.
Usually my mind returned me to the small computer in my pocket, to an unanswered email, to a "like" or a retweet, to a comment I found threatening or flattering (though increasingly, any kindness I received through a device acted on my nervous system like derision).
After months of fieldwork in the affluent Shaker Heights suburb of Cleveland, he had developed what he called the "cultural-ecological theory of academic disengagement": The education gap between black and white students could be partly explained by students underperforming to avoid derision by their peers.
Fukuyama's cynicism about the bourgeois order in The End of History and the Last Man manifestly had its origin in Nietzsche's worldview; the addition to the title of the phrase "the Last Man," Nietzsche's term of derision for the bourgeoisie—"men without chests"—gave the game away.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpWhistleblower complaint declassified on eve of high-stakes testimony Ocasio-Cortez on impeachment: 'I think the ground has shifted' Democrats ask Pentagon to probe delayed Ukraine aid MORE's tweet that he was "looking at" purchasing Greenland from Denmark was met with amusement and derision.
The infamous "bridge to nowhere" — a proposed $400 million project to construct a bridge between the city of Ketchikan, Alaska, and a nearby island with an airport — further drew nationwide derision around the same time as Cunningham's legal troubles and paved the way for banning earmarks.
An object of both obsession and derision during the 2016 presidential election, The New York Times's election tracking needle returned to the national spotlight during Tuesday's Alabama Senate race, accurately predicting a victory for the Democratic candidate, Doug Jones, over his Republican rival, Roy S. Moore.
He'd been hiding that facet of himself diabolically well all these years, as he grabbed them by parts of their bodies that newspapers try not to mention and showed them special derision on Twitter, comparing Stormy Daniels to a horse and Omarosa Manigault to a dog.
Their quality seems largely incidental to many of the people who seek them out, and critical derision may only make audiences embrace them more; just look at the gap between the critical average (17%) and the audience score (76%) on the Rotten Tomatoes page for God's Not Dead.
Bannon expressed derision and astonishment over the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in New York in which a Russian lawyer was said to be offering damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, according to the book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" by Michael Wolff.
Just when our nation needs more, not fewer good public spirited lawyers, the deteriorating image of the lawyer – often a butt of jokes or derision until you need one – has unfortunately helped to dissuade many of our nation's most talented and promising young people to pursue other professional endeavors.
Such derision, however, only motivated the man who had curated the show and named the movement: Roger Fry, the then 44-year-old critic, painter and polymathic member of the Bloomsbury Group, a set of aristocratic bohemian intellectuals whose name derived from the London neighborhood where they lived.
A longing for human connection predicates much of the season so far, as it becomes clear that Lavinia's wealth has had the side effect of cutting her off from people, and Josh's recent move to Peck from New York is still the source of some derision from the townspeople.
The pink ribbon, that ubiquitous emblem of breast cancer awareness, has long been an object of controversy and derision, but the poet and essayist Anne Boyer doesn't just pull it loose, unfastening its dainty loop; she feeds it through a shredder and lights it on fire, incinerating its remains.
Too many white Americans remain in the thrall of white supremacy and anti-black racism that is the direct byproduct of racial slavery and a still potent caste system that marks black bodies -- by virtue of their skin color -- as objects of systemic exploitation, ritualized violence and cultural derision.
The leader has long insisted he is not interested in "show votes" on measures that stand no chance of passing, and he has drawn derision from Democrats for presiding over what they call a "legislative graveyard," refusing to take up hundreds of bills they have passed in the House.
Venezuelan electoral authorities said more than 53 million people voted Sunday to create a constitutional assembly endowing President Nicolas Maduro's ruling socialist party with virtually unlimited powers — a report more than double the estimates of independent experts and opposition leaders who met the announcement with fury and derision.
If you were an NBA voter who really believed, for some strange reason, that Steph Curry wasn't the league's MVP, would you have voted that way if you'd known your ballot would be made public, and that you'd no doubt be singled out for mockery and derision (and worse) from fans?
Critics say the Code of Practice effectively allows for breeding conditions akin to battery farming — a suggestion that is met with derision by Liam Spokes, Head of Shooting Campaigns for the Countryside Alliance, an organization that supports shooting and also advocates for the repeal of the UK's ban on fox hunting.
While the derision of effete liberal characters like 2013's "pajama boy" served as early rumblings of what was to come, it was the ascension of the current president, himself a walking parody of bravado, that seems to have been the catalyst for this latest, uniquely aggressive wave of toxic masculinity.
Given the chorus of derision that greeted the release last week of the "Unified Framework for Fixing Our Broken Tax Code," as the White House is calling it, the most ambitious attempt at tax reform in over 40 years would appear to be on a respirator, if not yet dead.
It is too much to expect teams to play with the reckless abandon asked of them every weekend in league play and then slip down through the gears for the European matches in between to take a more sedate, thoughtful route — particularly when doing so is greeted with howls of derision.
In and around Birmingham, where he was a public figure for more than four decades, he was regarded with an intriguing mix of admiration — for his creativity, zeal and unstinting confidence — and derision, which flowed from his reputation as a politician who dealt in himself and in spectacularly unrealistic ideas.
In the book, Bannon expressed derision and astonishment over the meeting at Trump Tower in New York in which a Russian lawyer was said to be offering damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, according to the book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" by Michael Wolff.
Often seen as operating outside of the law and with their own agenda, police and lawmakers face the derision of a community supportive of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the country's anti-corruption agency that routinely ranks among the most trusted, in its efforts to weed out corruption in Indonesia's government and police.
The White House has yet to announce what form the "reciprocal action" will take, but French finance minister Bruno Le Maire is urging the US not to "mix up the two issues," referring to Trump's derision towards its wine, and said that the countries should "get consensus on fair taxation of digital activities."
But their main dispute is over the HR manager's reason for banning locs — because they "tend to get messy" — which hinges on a racial stereotype that intentionally harms black workers: Locs are often the target of scorn and derision based on long-held stereotypes that natural Black hair is dirty, unprofessional, or unkempt.
" And despite the long-term derision of the institution, perhaps for the first time in American history, the Electoral College has the opportunity to validate its original mission: to prevent the election of an individual "who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications" with the "talents for low intrigue.
Critics in the kingdom say that they sometimes failed to understand the dynamics of Western politics and culture, like when Mr. Qahtani orchestrated the plastering of billboards and trucks in London with his boss's photo during the crown prince's visit there last spring — to the derision of Londoners unaccustomed to foreign personality cults.
" The news media and video bloggers have a place at Standing Rock, Ms. Rae said, but in her view, many nonindigenous feature documentary makers are direct descendants of "the anthropologists" — which Ms. Rae uses as a term of derision — who have long relegated Native American subjects to the equivalent of a "human zoo.
Kaine frequently claimed Democrat Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE had "eliminated" the Iranian nuclear program and helped the Middle East, met by much derision from Pence.
He used a speech at the unveiling of a 9/11 memorial -- marking the only time the alliance's mutual defense pledge has been invoked -- to chastise member states for not meeting their financial commitments to the alliance, remarks that drew visible derision and unease from other leaders who stood just a few feet away.
Simple example: If you loudly tell a woman she deserves to be raped for speaking her mind on any subject in the public square, at a party or at work, there's a pretty good chance you'll get ejected from there and, at the very least, you'll be subject to much-deserved derision and censure.
And for all the derision of "woke" candidates, condescending liberals, and John Oliver clips, there's no politician in America better at playing to the late-night comedy crowd or quicker to lecture the opposition than Obama, and his approval ratings are well above 50 percent, and it seems clear that he would have stomped Trump.
After the dispute gained national exposure — amplified by the professor's appearance on Fox News, his op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, and right-leaning websites' heaping derision on their newest college target — the professor, Bret Weinstein, said he had to stay away from campus for his own safety and move his family into hiding.
In an angry response to the latest nuclear test by the North, one of South Korea's 11 banks of high-power speakers set up along the border began pumping out a mix of K-pop, scathing commentary on Pyongyang's nuclear program, and derision of the ruling family's penchant for costly clothes and luxury handbags.
Prepare for a cataract of derision and self-righteousness should you dare pen anything perceived as too left or too right, as too pious or too profane, as possibly ageist or racist, sexist or classist, each "ist" word shot like a silver bullet intended first to take you down and then to wake you from your own beastliness.
" Because this is New York, Leslie Odom Jr., who plays Aaron Burr in the Broadway smash "Hamilton," shared the stage and lit into Ted Cruz, the Texas senator who references "New York values" as a term of derision, first describing him as a "smug pile of expiring Pillsbury Crescent dough" and then "a rancid state fair butter sculpture.
A U.S. intelligence assessment last year found Russia had meddled in the 2016 U.S. elections and that its goals eventually included aiding Trump Sr. Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon in his new book expressed derision and astonishment over a 2016 meeting between Trump Jr., his father's top campaign officials and a Russian lawyer, terming it "treasonous".
What makes Trump's derision of the division of power between the executive, legislative and judicial branches different is both how brazen he is about it and how many times he has expressed sentiments in his first six-plus months in office that suggest he simply doesn't understand the fact that everyone in the government doesn't work for him.
That comment, coming as pundits began referring to the G-20 Summit as the "G-19 plus one" to signal how isolated the U.S. and Trump appeared, was met with "putting the fox in charge of the henhouse" derision — referencing repeated findings by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies that Russia was involved in wide-scale hacking campaigns.
And in the 2004 American League Championship Series, in which the Yankees famously blew a three-games-to-none lead over the Boston Red Sox, Rodriguez made himself an object of derision after he was caught slapping the ball out of the glove of Red Sox pitcher Bronson Arroyo and called out in a crucial moment in Game 6.
Use the word at your peril: To some Newfoundlanders it is offensive, a vestige of the derision toward locals expressed by some American G.I.s stationed there during World War II. For decades stoic Newfoundlanders have endured national ridicule, the butt of jokes that cast residents of one of the country's more remote corners as bumpkins and dimwits.
From Ronald Reagan's invocation of a "welfare queen," to Mitt Romney's derision of "takers," to the House and Senate bills to cut taxes for the rich by taking health insurance away from tens of millions of people, the premise of incessant Republican tax cutting is that the system robs the rich to lavish benefits on the poor.
Spicer had said Saturday that it was the largest audience ever to watch a presidential inauguration, a claim that was met with widespread derision given aerial photos that showed a relatively small crowd on the National Mall, in contrast to the throngs of people who crowded that area in front of the Capitol for President Barack Obama's swearing-in in 2009.
In a 1986 interview, when Feldman says, "I just want to say something very quickly," it initiates a cascade of commentary, encompassing technical strategies of music notation, derision and praise for composers living and dead, the superior paint job on a Rolls Royce, a Bellini painting at the Frick, the Sistine Chapel, and his (lack of a) strategy for negotiating with landlords.
Cipollone's claim has been met with derision by many prominent lawyers, both liberal and conservative — "It's pure hackery, and it disgraces the profession," George Conway, a constitutional lawyer and the husband of the White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, wrote on Twitter — but it provided cover for Pompeo, Mulvaney, Giuliani and others who have decided not to hand over documents or testify.
"[DeSantis] is now joined by Donald Trump and the campaign of distractions and the campaign of division and derision, a campaign to make us fearful of each other so we that can't see each other's humanity, a campaign that is providing cover for people who are now taking their political differences and going to the next extreme to create political violence," he said.
If one people violently conquered the territory of an indigenous people, forced them to declare allegiance to the conquering nation and creed at the point of a sword, foisted a culture, religion and language on the conquered people and treated those who refused as second-class citizens with far fewer rights, there would rightly be outcry, derision and, above all, condemnation.
Like many of those victims in El Paso, I grew up on the U.S.-Mexico border, crossing from Tijuana to San Diego daily, and thus grew up with the hate, the derision, the taunts, the demonization, the ridicule, the AKs worn by patrolling army members and federales, and the fear that comes with being a Mexican living in a heavily politicized space.
" On Monday, just before midnight — and hours after her statements were met with outrage and derision on the internet — Karan's public relations team issued the following apology: "Last night, I was honored at the Cinemoi Fashion Film Awards in Hollywood and while answering a question on the red carpet I made a statement that unfortunately is not representative of how I feel or what I believe.
It arrives in the midst of a boom in immersive theater, when creators seem to be continually upping the ante on extreme premises, but also six months into the #MeToo moment, when questions of sex and power are dominating the conversation (and reports that Harvey Weinstein responded to sexual assault allegations by checking into a spalike rehab facility in the Arizona desert have drawn snorts of derision).
"We're going to make clear to the rest of the world that the dark days that we've been under, coming out of Washington, that the derision and the division that has been coming out of our White House, that right here in the state of Florida we are going to remind this nation of what is truly the American way," Mr. Gillum told jubilant supporters in Tallahassee.
While his campaign has rebounded from countless controversies sparked by his thin-skinned derision — of a war hero who was captured, of a reporter with a disability, of a federal judge of Mexican heritage, of the parents of a fallen Muslim soldier — Trump's personal brand and future net worth may be irrevocably diminished by his videotaped admission of sexual assault and a slew of allegations validating it.
The governor wasn't arguing that his young self came to see that blackface was wrong because he had learned how minstrelsy wasn't some cultural niche but was once America's popular culture and how that popularity helped cement the nation's perception of black people as hideous and stupid and freakish and dumb and lusty and unworthy of more than torture, exploitation, derision, oppression, neglect and extermination.
British leader Theresa May's premiership is hanging by a thread and she can ill afford to appear alongside the unpopular Trump right now, especially after she was pictured holding the US President's hand during a visit to the White House in January, an image that whipped up derision in the UK. Opinion: Theresa May is wounded but still walking toward Brexit CNN's Dan Merica contributed to this report
Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, the Republican presidential nominee, has again made himself the object of derision around the world by making laughable claims about climate change during a TV interview.
A fellow at the Brookings Institution blasted President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's derision of the visa lottery system on Friday, putting himself forward as an example of the program's effectiveness.
A Saturday statement on the Newseum's website noted that the shirt would be removed from the museum's gift shop and online store, and apologized for selling the shirt, which bears President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's popular derision aimed at members of the news media.
"These names excite the derision of the English; an American comic character, in an English play or novel, always bears one of them," H. L. Mencken wrote, in 1919, in " The American Language ," before remarking upon the habits, in this country, of using last names as first names, particularly "in families of any consideration"; "of making given names of any proper nouns that happen to strike the fancy"; and of coining new names by blending existing ones.
But that derision has a point: In the world as it was, slavery was abolished only because of the interaction between Southern paranoia, ambition and vainglory and Northern abolitionists who regarded the constitutional order as a "compact with hell" — an interaction that led first to political violence, then a breakdown of the constitutional order and then a civil war in which a cautious campaign to save the union became a providentialist war to crush the South.

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