Word: mocker
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...still a mocker-a fusion of mod and rocker? -Robert Soares, New York CityWe were always pop. "I'm a mocker"-that was one of the lines in A Hard Day's Night. I'm a popper...
...ouch, baby, very ouch, when the original James Bond met his mocker Austin Powers during the Cannes Film Festival last month. "Mistah Myers, is this your first time to Cannes?" asked Sean Connery in his thick Scottish brogue. "Yes!" answered Mike Myers nervously. "And is it going well?" Connery inquired. Myers was so flustered before his childhood hero that he could barely squeak out another affirmative reply. "That was all I said, just yes and yes," Myers recalled later. "I was too intimidated to talk, even though I was dying to meet him. What else was I going...
...drove east out of Eden across the Mississippi, reflecting that perhaps Smith's prophecies were not so wacky after all. Even Mark Twain (a notorious Mormon mocker who famously dissed the Book of Mormon as "chloroform in print") set his own idyllic fables along the riverway. Indeed, if God had planted Eden in America, he could not have found better soil or growing weather. Even the air smells fertile in northern Missouri--humid, rich and fertile--almost malted...
...infers, largely from Chaucer's poetry, that the author of The Canterbury Tales was shrewd, playful, funny, a mocker, but even-tempered, a religious man capable of what Gardner slyly calls "willing suspension of belief." Though the poet, as a matter of convention, denied all personal knowledge of love, his love poetry was strongly sexual...
...constant bombardment of visual problems?with a charmingly ironic humor. "How good we feel," he wrote to the exuberant Pirckheimer. "Both of us, I with my picture and you with your wisdom. When we are praised we turn up our noses and believe it all. But a nasty mocker might stand behind us and scoff at us." Happily, the future turned out otherwise...