| Epitomizing Sokurov's ambivalence, the narrator scoffs at the film's climactic ballroom dance yet expresses regret at having to leave. |
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| But when he flings caution to the wind and offers to divorce his wife and marry her, she scoffs at the idea. |
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| The boy runs to a carpetmaker, who scoffs, "He has needs! What about me? I need thread for weaving my carpets." |
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| It argues over the ethics of non-involvement, and scoffs at those who would rationalize the repugnant for the sake of a settled conscience. |
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| But Sayyid Al-Husseini, a farmer in Mahaweel, 50 miles south of Baghdad, scoffs at that. |
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| Unfortunately, these opinion-oriented authors have gotten nothing but scoffs from friends of mine. |
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| Once she swaps stilettos for cowboy boots, scoffs on catfish and makes plum jam with her momma, you suspect that her and Andrew are never destined to make it down the aisle. |
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| Hot UK design company Duffy London scoffs at the very idea that light need only emanate from sconces, lamps and fixtures. |
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| Judson Philips, founder of Tea Party Nation, scoffs at the notion that his movement can be replicated. |
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| Adi Sasono, who heads ICMI's think-tank, scoffs at the idea that it is a hotbed of closet fundamentalists. |
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| This budget implementation bill scoffs at the right to pay equity, women's right to receive the same pay as men for the same work. |
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| With Tonight and You, Linky scoffs at the trend revamping the Deep Techno and confronting it with shrill retro and ambient sounds. |
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| But the mission's director of information Patricia Tome scoffs at concerns over editorial policy at the station. |
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| He scoffs the jobs one after the other, and he even eat all the immortality peaches! |
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| Politicians have been waving an olive branch of an extra NOK 600 million around for 2004, but the industry just scoffs. |
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| The attorney scoffs at the idea that Gristina avoided arrest for so many years by bribing the police. |
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| Perceived as one of this country's most intellectual moviemakers, the Jesuit-educated, one-time history student scoffs at people who claim they have no time for the tube. |
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| The Oxford history graduate scoffs at the idea that his father somehow wangled him the job of co-presenting and researching the programme and accompanying book. |
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| Having been taught Modernism, a school of thought that scoffs at the decorative, materials became his primary means of expression. |
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| On the other hand, they are now stuck with the Conservative Party, a party that scoffs at election laws. |
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| Hess scoffs at the notion that friendships drive Washington dealmaking. |
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| But as she sits through lessons she doesn't comprehend, greedily scoffs other kids' leftover food and trails around companionless in the playground, some trauma is slowly working its way up inside her. |
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| The scoffs of the cynics have certainly long since been silenced, replaced by a chorus of acclaim for a competition that, in every single aspect, exceeded even the most optimistic expectations. |
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| But he scoffs at those who like to call him a hero. |
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| Does it not rather say: GOD scoffs at His enemies! |
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| Today we are being asked to consider actions needed to stop a man out of control, a dangerous man who scoffs at the world community, a man who holds peace and stability in contempt. |
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| Alice scoffs and calls the dormouse's accusation ridiculous because everyone grows and she cannot help it. |
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| Armed with her utter faith in the goodness she must stand unabashed before the arrogance that scoffs at the power of spirit. |
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| It scoffs fish eggs, leaving the rare Scots powan fighting for survival. |
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