Word: mocking
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Flynt’s appearance caused several community members to protest outside the event, singing “Hey hey, ho ho, sexual violence has got to go,” displaying mock “Wanted” posters of Flynt and putting tape over their mouths...
...what’s the matter with you?” she says in mock disbelief...
...attack is even affecting civil cases. Joseph Rice, a San Francisco jury consultant, says his mock juries are suddenly more skeptical of personal-injury lawsuits. They are coming in with lower emotional-distress awards in product-liability cases and telling him it's because the plaintiffs' pain and suffering do not compare to what they saw in the World Trade Center collapse...
Michael, a feckless Hong Kong singer-songwriter, sits in a Beijing restaurant delivering an ambitious pitch: he, too, could be a star on the mainland. Beijing rocker Road (Geng Le), his starry-eyed girlfriend Yang Yin (Shu Qi) and other members of their underground band are skeptical. The mainlanders mock Michael's Hong Kongese-ness and bait him to party like a man. Michael (Daniel Wu) reaches into his pocket and pulls out some spliffs. "Ah," says Yang, "the Hong Kong peasant grows...
...drawn next from the deck. The audience member, already wowed by Jay’s abilities and sure a full house is coming, shrugs and tells Jay that whichever of the already paired cards he had planned to give him was okay. Jay retorts, with the perfect air of mock indignation, “I wouldn’t have asked if I couldn’t have given you either...