There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.
Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.
Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery.
The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion
To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.
Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.
Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.
See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.
Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. "You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself.
I think the tone of mockery Heller finds is a part of Mann's irony, but only a part - a brilliant further touch consists in juxtaposing perspectives so that we're led to wonder whether the mockery itself is the last word.
The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.
Whatever hinders us from receiving a blessing that God is willing to bestow upon us is not humility, but the mockery of it. A genuine humility will ever feel the need of the largest measures of grace, and will be perfected just in the degree in which that grace is bestowed. The truly humble man will seek to be filled with all the fullness of God, knowing that when so filled there is not the slightest place for pride or for self.
We're looking at such enormous complexity and variety that it makes a mockery of "celebrating diversity. " In the L. A. of the future, no one will need to say, "Let's celebrate diversity. " Diversity is going to be a fundamental part of our lives. That's what it's going to mean to be modern.
The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of.
As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger. , Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott. ]
Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political.
Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?