Word: mocks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...albums didn’t—most notably, a sense of perspective. While he might not exactly be an elder statesman in the vein of Nas or Rakim, his lead single “Bubble Pop” serves as a worthy critique of rap culture today. Its mock-lament of the “deflation” of today’s hip-hop “helium heads” resonates powerfully over a doughy beat layered beneath the sampled bells of Bob James’s “Take me to the Mardi Gras...
...unapologetically feel-good movie is the work of stand-up comic and native Ch'ti Danny Boon, who plays the role of Bailleul. Boon has made no secret that his motive was to dismantle and mock French prejudices about the north and its inhabitants. As the box office figures show, French cinema lovers are lapping that effort up. But there's more at work than simple entertainment. "This movie is doing what [author Marcel] Pagnol did for the Provençals: showing that people broadly considered buffoonish and stupid are actually very interesting, alluring, and deeply human," says Patrice Languetif...
...like (Paul McCartney, Kylie Minogue); Add some folks who are quirky enough to amuse but not so bizarre they creep people out (Amy Winehouse, Gossip's Beth Ditto); and then toss in a few of the too-cool-to-care crowd to sit in a corner, get drunk and mock the whole affair (Arctic Monkeys...
...rising prices of basic commodities but also worsened the situation by increasing taxes. Everybody is struggling with meager salaries or pensions, while members of the ruling class enjoy enormous incomes and a lot of benefits. Everywhere one can feel the contempt that ordinary people nourish toward politicians in this mock democracy. The sight of the uncollected trash around Naples is a painful metaphor of the Italian mess. Alessandro Berrini, SAN DONATO MILANESE, ITALY...
...rising prices of basic commodities but also worsened the situation by increasing taxes. Everybody is struggling with meager salaries or pensions, while members of the ruling class enjoy enormous incomes and a lot of benefits. Everywhere one can feel the contempt that ordinary people nourish toward politicians in this mock democracy. The sight of the uncollected trash around Naples is a painful metaphor of the Italian mess. Alessandro Berrini San Donato Milanese, Italy...