Nevertheless he contends that along with this derisory matter there is intermingled serious reasoning which may be easily distinguished (p.
Perhaps Plato intended the above argument as a derisorytaunt against the Sophist Hippias, for being vain enough to think his own tuition better than that of the Spartan community.
Here, as elsewhere, he looks only at the self-regarding side of Ethics.
Nor has it been only by nicknaming each other by derisory or opprobrious terms that parties have been marked, but they have also worn a livery, and practised distinctive manners.
The constitution will be covered with a black veil: and that derided and violated instrument will never be referred to, except for the mock sanction of a fraudulent interpretation, or the insulting ceremony of a derisory adjuration.
Now his derisory speech began to make the Franks who were standing there feel shame, and with difficulty they restrained the angry man from speaking.
This victory for us resulted in an apparent dimunition of their strength and force, and their derisory remarks entirely ceased.
To be tossed about at the whims of superiors was an experience which he would take as composedly as he would those exiguous weekly wages which were the derisory compensation.
Both as a pretended French officer, and as an English agent of the Secret Service, Rust was the most derisory of frauds.
