I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.
That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.
Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a solipsist.
The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.
I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.
Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.
what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.
Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.
The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.
The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
Gentle mockery or sharp satire aimed at Christians and their leaders have been replaced by abuse of Christianity itself.
Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.
It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.
The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.
This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.
There's a thin line between mockery and endorsement.
The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of.
And I am a mockery, who was God before.
Day by day, it's worse for my people, especially for the women. And that's why, because of all of these main reasons, we say this is the mockery of democracy and mockery of War on Terror.
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.
The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion
The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was!
The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
Passion is what you would do if you got to choose. It's what you think about doing in the privacy of your own mind, without ear of dismissal or mockery.
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.
Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?
... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
Any cause that requires mockery and abuse to advance itself isn't one I need to engage with, regardless of my basic beliefs or agreement with the underlying goals.
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with whats going on - and thats scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.
Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.
I think the tone of mockery Heller finds is a part of Mann's irony, but only a part - a brilliant further touch consists in juxtaposing perspectives so that we're led to wonder whether the mockery itself is the last word.
The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.
and the stars were icicles of mockery
And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'
Right from school, I got mockery for the way I look. I took it to heart early on. I admit there were times when I doubted myself.
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.
Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.
If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
The Biden Administration is making a mockery of the rule of law and destroying our country, even as we are going through a worldwide pandemic.
In mockery I have set
A powerful emblem up,
And sing it rhyme upon rhyme
In mockery of a time
Half dead at the top.
Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.
Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.
It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.
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