The Monkees were met with critical derision from the start, but their songs became bubblegum hits.
The creation of a special police unit to deal with the violence has been greeted with derision.
Yet even his philanthropic ambitions are greeted with wariness, or outright derision, by some in Slim's home country.
Strains of 'Bread of Heaven', and hoots of derision for an over-sized TV cameraman, soon echoed the venue.
That being authentic can be rewarded, and enduring derision and failure without losing faith is ultimately worth it.
Shania has received a lot of derision in the press for this out-of-the-blue defense of her ex.
It is thus baffling that wealth has become such an object of derision.
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Rick Bayless, in a chef's jacket, snorted in derision but added the meat.
For those who survive the judges' scorn and derision on the original Idol, the pain can be worth it.
His portentous life of comfort and lack of military experience serve as a catalyst for additional, if subtle, derision.
True, and necessary, but it establishes a dynamic in which the weak and slow are the near-immediate target of derision.
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The bad news is that it involves the kind of European group-hug that inspires derision, not confidence, in hedge-fund managers.
The American media's main fault is that of the playground bully: whoever is losing gets the bulk of the derision.
The implications are far-reaching despite some misguided sniffs of derision from artificial intelligence cognoscenti, and are well beyond a single column.
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Increasingly, the niches are being defended with services, in this context not the term of derision it often is in manufacturing circles.
The showdown between Plainview and Eli had preview audiences hooting in derision.
Sunday's move was met with derision by many Saudi social media users.
But for a long time his attempts were met with derision - Aznavour just did not look or sound like a star.
This drew derision from his political opponents who say that the dissolution of the Parliamentary Union would indeed involve an ending, a breach.
Social approval and derision are the most powerful forms of influence.
Hedging her bets would certainly draw derision from her political opponents.
Adapting a script by Tom Stoppard based on a novel by Nabokov, Rainer Werner Fassbinder brings Weimar-era decadence to life with vibrant derision and visual mystery.
New York City Public Advocate Bill de Brasio released a list of investment firms that owned gun stocks in hopes of increasing the outcry and derision.
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It endured derision that it was a mindless promotional event, and (as if to validate the criticism) a full-court press for legitimacy from the Associated Men's Wear Retailers.
But the announcement has been met with derision by the organisation Sense About Science, which helped initiate the AllTrials campaign for all clinical research to be published.
And his impersonation of a cat at the weekend - when he purred contentedly out of actress Rula Lenska's hands - was greeted with derision from his opponents.
If Americans were offered clean energy options that were affordable and better than gasoline, coal, and natural gas, much of the derision towards clean energy would go away.
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The iWatch will attract derision if Cook poses it as anything other than a hobby and right now he needs to be fixing big stuff not playing in the sandbox.
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In the 1980s, they like to point out, Mr Gore focused on global warming: he even predicted, amid much derision at the time, the demise of the internal combustion engine.
The media derision for the protesters, most of whom are Republicans, reached comic heights when a generic CNN anchorman became testy on the air because protesters were making too much noise.
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