In middle school, they had seemed pitiful objects of sympathy, charity, and condescension, if not derision.
The Monkees were met with critical derision from the start, but their songs became bubblegum hits.
Public services live in a No Logo world: attempts at government branding arouse derision.
The magazine was directing its derision at "this grotesque film, " Charbonnier said, not the Muslim prophet.
Derision was their weapon, language and arts their hunting ground and Western Civilization their prey.
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Of course anything she would design, no matter how good, would be met with skepticism and derision.
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.
In all these services, Labour's preferred method of promoting improvement the use of performance targets increasingly prompts derision rather than respect.
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.
Belfast's reputation is being dragged through the gutter and Northern Ireland is an object of derision around the world.
The cult has survived countless attempts to suppress it through derision and scorn.
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.
Everyone who worked near or with him, knew that to fail in what you delivered would be met with derision and a severe calling out.
Social approval and derision are the most powerful forms of influence.
Hedging her bets would certainly draw derision from her political opponents.
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