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mocking

«It is a painting that exposes in oils what Chekhov so often did in print: sunlight mocking a dark isolation of the moment. A moment fixed in a brave, failing light.»
«The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.»
«Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: mocking, scribes
«Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, / He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: mocking, The cross
«Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: draw near, mocking, reproach
«And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Egyptian, Hagar, mocking, Sarah
«Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.»
«I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.»