But while he as intelligent, charming, and witty, the Italian was also argumentative, mocking, and vain. |
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The bell rings its monotonous peal of imprisonment, mocking us for being forced to follow its commands. |
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With mocking, rollicking, sigh-streaked guffaws, his film ignites that inward turning, perhaps into directions he did not visualise. |
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Rain patters against the glass with soft, almost soothing sounds, mocking me. |
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The result is a matrix of sense without sense itself, mocking the devices of sanity. |
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Kant was critical of every other view, scornful, mocking, or at least he aimed to be. |
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Flipping the rifle over his shoulder, Mattais sketched John a mocking salute. |
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The hateful dress was mocking me. Therefore, the last thing I ever did in that house was to fling that wretched dress into the cleansing fire. |
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The distorted semblances of the trees on the other side were vaguely visible through it, mocking him cruelly in the emptiness. |
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He's undeniably attractive, with a sensuous mouth that twists with a thin, mocking smile. |
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Only Trent noticed the mocking tone in Matt's voice and he hated him for it. |
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Engines began to hum deep in the belly of the ship, but Boertousce's grin only widened, the lips peeling back as if mocking his efforts. |
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In the middle of another hour long mocking taunt of his dad for how much better this war was going, his mother belted him with a cheese grater. |
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He was mocking the hollowness of the new consumer society before the sexual revolution. |
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Toni made a mocking snicker and turned back in the other direction towards the school. |
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Three tattered sheets of TP hang off the edge of the cardboard roll, mocking you. |
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He laughs, mocking the pose a Shakespearean actor might take during a particularly tragic scene. |
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Alan could be as ferocious and mocking a critic as the sharp-tongued Sebastian. |
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I almost fancy I hear a ghostly mocking chuckle from the late and unlamented Stanley Wardley. |
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The awkwardness between them soon vanished when they began laughing and mocking the poorly produced film. |
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May be it was just because of her bad mood and hopeless situation but it seemed as if they were laughing sinisterly and mocking at her. |
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Today millions of unbelievers sit in front of their TV sets laughing and mocking at what once was considered sacred. |
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When he looked up, he saw Kerna mocking him, imitating a woman drinking tea on the same log before the thicket. |
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I mimicked the innocent grin she displayed herself moments ago, mocking her now displeased demeanor. |
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If you need to explain something, try mocking it up and prototyping it rather than writing a longwinded document. |
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I got a set of those brackets and I was planning on mocking them up on an empty housing I have. |
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Billy the Greek bustled me indoors as Lynne looked confused before our hoots of laughter became too mocking. |
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An attitude that started out as solicitous and respectful becomes condescending and mocking. |
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It is not so fatuous that it becomes mocking, but the humor in the situation is evident. |
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Had his life ended when he was 60 years of age, his obituaries would have been both short and mocking. |
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He said all this politely, but there was something unfeeling and mocking in his tone. |
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In the mining district, religious zeal was often counterbalanced by a skeptical, almost mocking, attitude. |
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He had always kidded her about her faith, but lately his tone had been more derisive, mocking. |
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Difficult mountains can seem hostile, haughty and mocking, wanting very much to lure in climbers, to tempt them to painful deaths on jagged rock. |
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One of the guards saluted out of turn, slower than the others, and he winked, deliberately mocking. |
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She dominated the compartment and decided to wield her power over me as well, mocking my stuttering Hindi and mothering me by forcing me to eat. |
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All those skinners, dyers, bakers, masons, weavers and hammermen seemed to be mocking us now. |
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He is beautifully made with graceful horns, a slinky, prism-like tail, and playful, though mocking and feral, eyes. |
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You might get an unsportsmanlike penalty for mocking your opponent, but it's well worth the price of 15 yards and a yellow flag. |
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Most of the time he fell back on cold disdainful looks and mocking sneers, which were working out pretty well. |
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What outsiders usually fail to realize, however, is that the British are even more mocking of other Britishers. |
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I verbalise my shame in mocking his tears before and I think I regained the points I lost earlier. |
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It's always wise to run spellcheck after you've spent so much time mocking someone else's typos. |
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The butterfly hair clip, however, lay with wings down on her dresser, as if mocking her resolve. |
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Everything is in a never-ending state of flux, oscillating between life and death, mocking our every attempt at permanence. |
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But at his loft the power of the image holds sway, as the dominating painting of a laughing, mocking clown quickly makes clear. |
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John recognized the mocking tone in his voice and knew that he still didn't believe him, but he let it pass. |
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Its all ephemera and persiflage, as we sit mocking in the plumes as political gadflies who tell the truth. |
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From a trompe l'oeil window on one side of the Palazzotto, a frescoed woman looks down, faintly mocking, faintly imperious. |
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We're too cowardly to actually commit insurrection, and its impossibility becomes a grimly mocking reminder of our impotence. |
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The mocking inflexion in Lonnie's voice reminded Loren chillingly of someone else. |
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With his first film, he turned ferociously on his tormentors, mocking their hypocritical views on freedom. |
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Grunting in place of a formal greeting, she inhales the food, and barely notices David mocking her out of the corner of her eye. |
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They've also co-opted the mocking, confrontational tone of bygone campus radicals in their tactics. |
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Now he stands accused of inadequately pleading his position, of mocking the people, and is instructed to try again to seek their approval. |
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His gentleness, diffidence, enthusiasm, his sense of fun, his quietly mocking spirit enslaved everyone. |
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The changed item could do harm to the author by mocking him or damaging his reputation. |
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It said his name in a mocking way, provoking him to an anger that he dared not express in front of such a fiend. |
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In the center, the focus of their attention is a cordless telephone which seems to be mocking them in its determinedness not to ring. |
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Normally she was grunting and complaining about one thing or another in her usual mocking tone. |
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The authors do an exceptionally good job in mocking the social Communism of major industrial cities of Russia. |
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The exercycle that sits next to my couch is pretty much mocking me while I eat pasta and beans and watch tv. |
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Slight eccentricities are curtailed with gentle mocking, and social aberrations are laughed off the set. |
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The even-spreading noon sun was accompanied by mocking cries of the fringed quetzal from the forests around the plantation. |
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The throng of people was excited, jeering and mocking, jostling the two who held on to the man at the centre of it all. |
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Their mocking, svelte sexiness made even this pallid romp almost bearably romplike. |
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What provokes this post is that someone from the church is on the phone right now, mocking me for not being able to shoot or hunt. |
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Oliver bares his soul as he highlights comments in which he is compared to a parrot and knocked for mocking an unremarkable soda. |
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If your 11-year-old mocks you by making a cawing voice, upturn his dinner plate and mock his mocking voice. |
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We found rare edelweiss by the path and picnicked on a grassy shelf, imagining free climbers, like spiders on the soaring pinnacles around us, mocking our apprehensions. |
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Elizabeth curtseyed very prettily, though her eyes were slightly mocking. |
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Although it sounded as though they were no longer laughing good-heartedly, but more maliciously, almost as though they were mocking me for not being able to reach them. |
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He gives a memorably twisted performance, mocking the people he kills. |
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His research is thorough, and his tone is fond, occasionally mocking. |
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He further insists on the reasonableness of his expectations, mocking the accusation that he would have men abandon pregnant women and leave them portionless. |
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Even the garden was engulfed by mocking, dancing tongues of flame. |
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As a result, modern elegies more often than not break with the decorum of earlier modes of mourning and become melancholic, self-centered, or mocking. |
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But overall, this movie was disgusting, mocking, and disappointing. |
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If the media really think that voters are going to be angered by a bloke waving a V-sign at a mocking crowd of photographers and journos they are kidding themselves big time. |
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I'm often reminded by comrades that the political tasks of the moment involve much more than merely mocking, ridiculing and provoking the Stoppers and associated tendencies. |
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Eventually the city kids settle into a comfortable routine that vacillates between mocking their counterparts and helping them acclimate to their new surroundings. |
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One Kansas farmer lined his field with ghastly wind ornaments, rough cut from sheet metal and painted with slogans mocking liberal causes and government tyranny. |
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The show revels in mocking pop culture conventions with tongue-in-cheek humor and action figures. |
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Exactly seventeen years later, I find myself in a head to head confrontation with the army, while the public at large is jeering and mocking me from the sidelines. |
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Clarke himself fails to criticize the Kennedy entourage for mocking and dismissing Johnson as incompetent behind his back. |
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Does this mean the end of the mourning doves, the finches, the mocking birds, the California quail, and all the other different voices in my neighborhood of birds? |
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They whine that the movie is just a parade of liberals mocking conservatives. |
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Now, jobs figures still aren't dancing the jive yet, but prices are spiraling higher and higher, mocking the Fed's directorate for central planning. |
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And keep in mind that even pre-ISIS, an Iraqi comedian was killed in 2006 for comically mocking those in power. |
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The second man heaved a sigh that was mocking in its false regret. |
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Let the mocking world slide by as long as I've got my scag and my needle. |
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And President Bush had more than his fair share of detractors, mocking and deriding him for not focusing on his job. |
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The neatly folded scented bed sheets and the four-poster bed made of ash wood had this annoying elegance, which seems to be mocking at her frustration. |
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The quirky tenor of his voice, combined with his observant, mocking tone, gelled perfectly with the screwball proceedings. |
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As far as this bike goes I originally was going to paint it flat black with hot rod flames but as I was mocking it up it really came into its own. |
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He rubbed his hands along his unshaved chin and let out a mocking laugh. |
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However, it spends too much time mocking the films that it claims to be above without ever actually rising above them, and that is a disappointment. |
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Shrill and mocking, the noise spurted from thousands of pursed lips. |
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He has argued that mocking ginger-haired players is akin to racism. |
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We crossed over onto the prom, squeezing between the bumpers and tailgates of near stationary cars with less grace and confidence than the mocking seagulls. |
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They can be overheard mocking the previous two groups of interlopers. |
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The sneer magnified on his face, then changed into mocking laughter. |
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There are satiric songs mocking meanness and tyranny, songs in praise of drink and drinkers, while other pieces celebrate heroic feats of valour or of sport. |
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When party ID samples in polls was the au courant topic, I weighed in mocking the conservatives. |
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Kim is mocking the entire value system on which she built her career, as well as her own less-than-savory past. |
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As I listen to myself and the real Bert spew inanities, I feel terrible, as if I am mocking a world before its very benefactors. |
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Some mocking dialogue in an Azerbaijani accent led to complaints from Azerbaijanis, the statement said. |
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However, she is convinced that her two suitors are mocking her, as neither loved her originally. |
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In 1591, he published Complaints, a collection of poems that express complaints in mournful or mocking tones. |
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His dialogue, with its primly mocking formality, satisfies both the ear and the intelligence. |
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As he dug, a huge raven circled overhead, mocking him, and encouraging him to dig deeper and deeper. |
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Some of these Protestant satiric poems drew also on the Pasquil poems mocking popes that were a major Italian tradition. |
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Mr Shapps' lawyers had pursued Dean Archer for mocking the MP on Facebook for suggesting he used a business pen-name after he was elected. |
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The children then engage in an antiphonary chant with Elizabeth, mocking her laments and aggressively putting forward their own. |
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She tried to make this sound hipsterishly arch and mocking, but she wanted to know. |
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Those that paint the night transformed the oppressive grey, cement blocks just hours after it was built into a cheerful, mocking smiley face. |
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At the beginning of the scene, Wan combs his wet hair, tending to him like a maid, but by the end, she leans domineeringly over him, mocking him. |
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For foreigners to be given precedence in soup kitchens is mocking the British public in the extreme. |
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We bicker over the baby, strapped into her feeding chair, the slow, steady drip, and drip of the gravity feeding tube mocking our need for haste. |
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The term politically correct has been transformed into a mocking description of vocabulary or actions used to avoid race or gender bias. |
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The issue around the use of the Irish language was once again intensified when a unionist MLA was accused of mocking Irish in the Northern Irish Assembly. |
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Ty Lawson just made the Houston Rockets and Denver Nuggets regular season games more interesting with an Instagram repost mocking the defensive abilities of James Harden. |
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More sportingly, the 5th century BC tragedian Euripides often played with the old traditions, mocking them, and through the voice of his characters injecting notes of doubt. |
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Steppers may employ a variety of cracks, from the innuendo of the folk tradition of signifying, to direct criticism, to nonverbally mocking the signature moves of a rival. |
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Manson's lyrics deal with darker themes, often in a mocking manner. |
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Burke also associated republican principles with alchemy and insubstantial air, mocking the scientific work done by both Priestley and French chemists. |
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The rather arch tone won't be to everybody's taste, but, helped along by some comic stereotypes mocking London's super rich, it makes for a sharp, comedy of manners. |
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The harsh sentence imposed on Raid Badawi for mocking the kingdom's infinitely mockable religious establishment has attracted an unusual amount of international attention. |
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