But it points to His Christian followers as inflicting on Him a still deeper outrage: a belief which the lips profess, and which the life derides and discredits.
Mr. Browning speaks equally for himself and Shakespeare, when he derides another idea which he considers to be popular: that the fit condition of the poet is melancholy.
Mark the man or the woman who derides this movement, who turns his or her back upon it; who is disposed to let misrule keep on, and you will find you have a sure indication of character.
This nation ridicules and derides this movement, and spits upon it, as fit only to be cast out and trampled underfoot.
He derides the ecclesiastical laws, enacted by shepherds who destroyed the sheep and treated them “as butchers do on Easter Eve.
And I wonder that he derides not also his master himself, who does as much whenever he writes concerning the substance of the soul and the creation of man.
But in the night the little men of the valley came clamouring: "Oh, Strong Man of the Hills, the moon derides you!
I have lost my wife, and the bath, the meal of fruit in the shade, the sight of sky and earth are still good to me, but when this false moon derides me, there must be a killing.
He justlyderides the absurd reverence for antiquity, which could only tend to discourage the improvements of art, and to replunge the human race into their original barbarism.
Paracelsus wholly rejects and derides this division of four humours and complexions, but our Galenists generally approve of it, subscribing to this opinion of Montanus.
All this persiflage, in harmony with the polemics of the Gorgias, derides and degrades the Rhetors collectively.
We may reflect with pleasure that an inestimable portion of our classic treasures was safely deposited in Italy; and that the mechanics of a German town had invented an art which derides the havoc of time and barbarism.
A lively philosopher [25] derides on this occasion the credulity of the Greeks, and observes, with much reason, that we should always distrust the exaggerations of a vanquished people.
This assertion of the vehement emotional effect produced by the words of the poet as declaimed or sung by the rhapsode, deserves all the more credit--because Plato himself, far from looking upon it favourably, either derides or disapproves it.
A man who derides a miraculous event merely as trifling, thereby asserts that he himself is the judge of what is great and what is little in the sight of God.
He speaks of mesmerism and clairvoyance, and derides the thought of a Saint's being illuminated with radiant light, or exhaling a fragrant odour; you ask him how he explains away the transfiguration of Jesus.
Let sinners join to break your peace, And plot, and rage, and foam; The Lord derides them, for he sees Their day of vengeance come.
The Lord that sits above the skies, Derides their rage below, He speaks with vengeance in his eyes, And strikes their spirits thro'.
The Lord derides their rage, And will support his throne; He that hath rais'd him from the dead Hath own'd him for his Son.
London portico-houses will make some such ruins as do chemical dyes, which undergo no use but derides them, no accidents but caricature them.
Medicine may, perhaps, fulfil her promise of giving us a few more years, but habitderides her by making each year a scanty gift.
Each order of believer accepts the myths of his own creed, and derides others.
Each sectarian derides the beliefs of the other; neither can criticize his own creed.
In idealism, as long as it remains within proper bounds, there is certainly truth; he who derides it, derides himself.
He deridesthe teaching of the First Council of the Vatican (cap.
The Western manderides the process by making not-horse the complementary entity of horse.
Every one of them affirms solemnly that I am its editor; derides the pretence of all the rest to my protection, and declares me the guardian of itself alone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "derides" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
