Inspired by Jon Stewart, he performed jokes about the president of Egypt by name, even mockingly dressing like him in sketches.

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When the compadritos mockingly meshed these extravagant gestures with the more static embraces of the European dances then popular in Buenos Aires, tango emerged.

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In the little lake below the lawns, hundreds of salmon leapt mockingly.

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Pure greed, Lei had said, shaking his head mockingly when she had told him that this was what she had dreamed of for their marriage.

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Once, in middle school, he was surrounded in the cafeteria by classmates who taunted him for carrying his violin and suggested, mockingly, that he play it.

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During his ill-starred speech to the European Parliament, Mr Berlusconi mockingly reassured his critics that the presidency is only for six months and would soon be over.

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National identity is celebrated noisily, slightly mockingly.

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'' Against her wishes, he plots to rip off a trio of evil farmers, and the film turns into a modly surreal, underground-burrowing heist yarn, with Clooney as self-mockingly sympathetic as he is in the Ocean's films.

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Her mouth gaped mockingly.

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