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  • His self-aggrandizing vignette should have been titled Derision Points as he made such a mockery of the presidency.

    Jim Worth: George Bush's Memoir: An American Tragedy Jim Worth 2010

  • Derision, which is so great a part of human comedy, has not spared the humours of children.

    The Children Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884

  • Adams feared that after winning independence, Americans “will become a Spectacle of Contempt and Derision to the foolish and wicked, and of Grief and shame to the wise among Mankind, and all this in the Space of a few Years.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Derision of a traditionalist segment of the public for not immediately jumping into line with standard selectionist narratives (however far-fetched they may be), is not the answer here.

    British Rebels 2009

  • Derision of a traditionalist segment of the public for not immediately jumping into line with standard selectionist narratives (however far-fetched they may be), is not the answer here.

    A New Book 2010

  • "The Legions of the Nonplussed to whom I have borne witness over the years reside eternally in my mind like a Pantheon of Disapproval or a Jury of Derision"

    Bearing Witness: Hitting From Behind BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • "That is why the Legions of the Nonplussed to whom I have borne witness over the years reside eternally in my mind like a Pantheon of Disapproval or a Jury of Derision:"

    Bearing Witness: Hitting From Behind BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Mr. Evra, the French captain, was one of the first players to bash the Great Horn of Derision, greviously complaining that his teammates were having trouble sleeping at night because of the vuvu.

    Now Appearing in South Africa: Les Mis 2010

  • That is why the Legions of the Nonplussed to whom I have borne witness over the years reside eternally in my mind like a Pantheon of Disapproval or a Jury of Derision:

    Bearing Witness: Hitting From Behind BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Derision and ridicule are so much easier than serious thought.

    What We Must Do to Fix the Economic Crisis 2009

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