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The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.
One should never deride the wretch, for who can be sure of always being happy?
The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it but there it is.
You mustn't deride him.
They constantly taunt and deride others.
For the record, I see zero issue with still watching and enjoying tennis and also being able to deride players for being the mugs they are. There’s no dissonance in my mind about it. They are elite professional athletes, but if all we were allowed to do is fawn in awe at how good they are, discourse would be incredibly boring.
Cicero beeing Augur, derideth the Auguries, and blames men for letting their actions relie vpon the voyce of a Crovve or a Davve.
And the people ſtood beholding ⁊ the rulers alſo with them derided him [Jesus], ſaying, hee ſaued others, let him ſaue himſelfe, if he be Chriſt, yͤ choſen of God.
I knovv there be many baſe, impudent, and braſen-faced roagues, […] let them be proued, perjured, ſtigmatized, convict roagues, theeues, traitors, looſe their ears, be vvhipped, branded, carted, pointed at, hiſſed, reviled, and derided, vvith Ballio the baud in Plautus, they reioice at it, […]
And thou Gallant, that readeſt and derideſt this madneſſe of Faſhion, if thine eyes vvere not dazeled vvith lightneſſe (light I cannot call it) of ſelfe-reflected Vanitie, mighteſt ſee as Monſter-like faſhions at home, and a more faſhionly Monſter of thy ſelfe; […]
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[H]ee [Noah] of thir vvicked vvayes / Shall them admoniſh, […] and ſhall returne / Of them derided, but of God obſervd / The one juſt Man alive; by his command / Shall build a vvondrous Ark, as thou beheldſt, / To ſave himſelf and houſhold from amidſt / A VVorld devote to univerſal rack.
Thou derideſt ſervants for obeying diligently their higheſt maſter? and for doing diligently the greateſt, beſt and needfulleſt vvork in all the vvorld? And is this a good example for thy ovvn ſervants?
They [Christian's relations] alſo thought to drive avvay his diſtemper by harſh and ſurly carriages to him: Sometimes they vvould deride, ſometimes they vvould chide, and ſometimes they vvould quite neglect him: […]
[H]e ſcorns the vain apologies of his prieſts, and juſtly derides the object, and the folly, of his ſuperſtitious attachment.
I panted after honours, gains, marriage; and Thou [God] deridest me. In these desires I underwent most bitter crosses, Thou being the more gracious, the less Thou sufferedst aught to grow sweet to me, which was not Thou.
And while the Tory caricatures were deriding [William Ewart] Gladstone because he introduced very new-fangled legislation, they were also deriding him because he wore very antiquated collars.
Italy's eventual win was worthy of an audience filling Wembley twice over, the joy of Mancini and his players a brutal contrast to the despair of much-derided Spain striker Alvaro Morata, who had actually rescued them with an equaliser in normal time after Federico Chiesa's superb opener for Italy.
Memorandum that about the year 1650 coffee and chocolate began to be frequently drunk in Oxon: and about 1655 a club was erected at Tilliard's where many pretended witts would meet and deride at others.
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