what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes
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.
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.
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. ]
I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with shame and derision and with a healthy dose of mockery, that's how we will very likely look back on this sort of anti-Muslim sentiment as well in the next generation.
Surely binationalism is not love, but there is, we might say, a necessary and impossible attachment that makes a mockery of identity, an ambivalence that emerges from the decentering of the nationalist ethos and that forms the basis of a permanent ethical demand.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.
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.
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.
That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of.
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.
I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.
Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man, That I did never, no, nor never can, Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye, But you must flout my insufficiency?
If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
Without. . . the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
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.
