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1. Should the sovereign have the imprudence to appear either to deride, or doubt himself of the most trifling part of their doctrine, or from humanity, attempt to protect those who did either the one or the other, the punctilious honour of a clergy, who have no sort of dependency upon him, is immediately provoked to proscribe him as a profane person, and to employ all the terrors of religion, in order to oblige the people to transfer their allegiance to some more orthodox and obedient prince
2. they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it
3. 22 But you deride our philosophy, as though we lived irrationally
4. Deny it, delay it, or deride it, you will eventually die
5. 22 But you deride our philosophy as though we lived irrationally in it
6. 6 Many of the Jewish leaders, when they learned how Pilate had sought to deride them by placing this inscription on the cross of Jesus, hastened out to Golgotha, but they dared not attempt to remove it since the Roman soldiers were standing on guard
7. ‘However, for every devotee there could be ten to deride the god-men
8. Where am I to find a clean, honest, strong pearl, able to cook and willing to come and live in what is something like an unopened oyster-shell, so shut-up, so cut-off so solitary would her existence here be, for eight pounds a year? It is easy for you august persons who never see your servants, who have so many that by sheer force of numbers they become unnoticeable, to deride us who have only one for being so greatly at her mercy
9. I know you will deride
10. I know that laughter is good, and I know that even derision in small quantities is as wholesome as salt; but I like to laugh and deride outside holy places, and not be forced to do it while I am on my knees
11. "Yes--and you come with me," cried Muriel, incredibly dragging at him quite as hard as he was pushing her--why, the Communist on the floor above would hear her, and deride them both on platforms if she didn't stop--"and just tell the truth for once--before her and before me, and me seeing that you do--"
12. The other men began to deride his fruitless efforts and insisted that another be allowed to try to remove the wood
13. come when the very lack of it will deride us
14. At present, the other members of the community - the "Christians" - deride and oppose the Socialist's appeal
1. The natives derided cut timber as 'plank-up' and deemed it temporary construction, even if the beams were eight by sixteen
2. 14And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided
3. “These are of course derided as stories suitable only for a child’s
4. He again derided Brynjolf for his eagerness to recruit the young woman - a move no doubt driven by her charisma, a supply of which matched that of the red-headed Nord
5. It was rather a manifestation of personal enjoyment for being able to express publicly my disdain for a president that, not only did soil and dishonor the Oval Office of the American people, but also laughed at and derided the judicial system, which as president he should defend and elevate
6. Pilate said to them What has been written has been written; And the people were standing beholding; and those who passed by were reviling him and shaking their heads and saying You who destroys the temple and builds it in three days save yourself if you are the Son of God and come down from the cross; And in like manner the Chief Priests and the Scribes and the elders and the Pharisees derided him and laughed one with 38 another and said The saviour of others cannot save himself
7. Over six hundred prisoners were packed into a place built a hundred years before to cater for less than one-third of this number, and even then those spaces were derided for being inhumane - even for the worst of criminals like murderers, horse thieves and bigamists
8. Long live the freedom of those who have been derided
9. These soldiers mocked and derided him, but they did not inflict further physical punishment
10. They derided the ruder, unsophisticated Bossonians, and hard feeling grew between them—the Aquilonians despising the Bossonians and the latter resenting the attitude of their masters – who now boldly called themselves such, and treated the Bossonians like conquered subjects, taxing them exorbitantly, and conscripting them for their wars of territorial expansion—wars the profits of which the Bossonians shared little
11. Objector were the same soldiers who had derided him
12. He served as a peacekeeper and guard for her gatherings when he’d once derided such men as tools and would-be gendarmes
13. That their honesty reveals every vulnerable thing, every sensitive thing they are curious about… and that all curiosity and sensitivity is ignored, laughed-at, derided, scorned, and spat on
14. This in turn, creates societies-cultures in which any show of affection or touching is strictly limited, derided, and frowned upon
15. Since bedwetting is not understood: it is laughed at and derided because it apparently shows that the person is not capable of consciously controlling his or her own instinctive behavior
16. And anyone who objected to it would be either derided as being crazy, laughed-at, or completely ignored as a nutcase… because they are only one person… they are not the majority
17. This is funny? Hating your brother or sister is funny? Why? Why is all showing of affection in public something to be ashamed of? Why is any liking-affection-love derided, sneered at, laughed at? Why do people only feel comfortable showing their liking for each other by some negative comment? Humor is only truly funny when it is completely inclusive… when it makes everyone laugh
18. How can you educate the consumer when the very concepts of ethics, honesty, and education; are openly derided and spoofed by the culture in which they live? How can you make them more aware when they don’t want to become more aware? Inevitably; the only way advertising can sell the importance of a bottle of sugar water… or anything else for that matter as the most important thing in your life; is by glorifying and celebrating meaningless trivia, and avoiding all truth and all issues that are relevant to your life
19. It brainwashes them into believing at a very deep level; that all touching, all kindness, all caring, all affection, all love, all human warmth is bad, evil, sick, and shameful… and to be derided, sneered at with contempt, and ignored and laughed at when they grow up to torture and brainwash their children in even worse, inventive, sickening ways
20. Over and over and over: the first flowering of good intentions good motives, good acts, good thoughts, good human emotions and feelings have been systematically attacked, belittled, ignored, laugher at, pooh-poohed, derided, poisoned, sabotaged, twisted, turned and reversed into evil
21. Everything that is evil is glorified: everything that is good is derided and pooh-poohed
22. And the record says, “And the Pharisees also who were covetous heard all the things and derided him
23. For the next two days I went about amongst my fellow men, who welcomed me with the utmost consideration and friendliness, but unanimously derided my fears of a war
24. Now David, having, in a Belgian publication, shown some displeasure at not receiving letters which had been written to him, it struck the royalist journals as amusing; and they derided the prescribed man well on this occasion
25. At the time, he was derided by colleagues who pointed out that all predictions made about oil capacity over the past half century had proven false
26. How could such a vulgar devil visit such a great man as you! Yes, there is that romantic strain in you, that was so derided by Byelinsky
27. And the rulers also with them derided Him, saying,—‘He saved others; let Him save Himself if He be Christ, the chosen of God
1. No city has had that domination which sometimes derides those whom it subjugates
2. At this time, then, when the United States had this formidable force afloat; when nearly 8,000 seamen were employed; (I know the documents only state 7,300, but I am told from the best authority there were nearly 8,000;) when our flag at least triumphed in our own seas; when we had nothing of that system of drawing within our shell, which the gentleman from Connecticut so justly derides; when we had not reached the soft-shelled state in which we were placed by the non-intercourse law;—at that time, the Navy of the United States cost nearly three millions and a half, making for each seaman about $472
1. Didn’t he hear the music? Didn’t he know this raga? He came—he saw—he knew; but he was deriding me
2. 39 And he answered and said, Now that the children of Israel know that I am ill, they turn and scoff at us, now therefore harness my chariot for me, and I will betake myself to Goshen and will see the scoff of the children of Israel with which they are deriding me; so his servants harnessed the chariot for him
3. 39 And he answered and said Now that the children of Israel know that I am ill they turn and scoff at us now therefore harness my chariot for me and I will betake myself to Goshen and will see the scoff of the children of Israel with which they are deriding me; so his servants harnessed the chariot for him
4. stealing and hoarding things to themselves, deriding one
5. He sought to win over the compliance of the Musalmans by deriding the Jews and the Christians, the way a father harps on his hurt on account of his elder siblings to gain his youngest progeny’s sympathy
6. His "Ulysses deriding Polyphemus," in the National Gallery of British Art, is a splendid example of his use of this principle
7. The position appeared by no means to please him, however, with an increasing rabble surrounding the coach, deriding him, making grimaces at him,
8. I suffered her to enjoy it a while; then I expostulated: deriding and ridiculing a Mr
9. I suffered her to enjoy it a while; then I expostulated: deriding and ridiculing all Mr
10. As for Derick, he seemed quite confident that this would be the case, and occasionally with a deriding gesture shook his lamp-feeder at the other boats