This is one of the points of Plato's story which provoked the incredulity and ridicule of the ancient, and even of the modern, world.
It thus appears that the very statement of Plato which has provoked the ridicule of scholars is in itself one of the corroborating features of his story.
When we trace up the human understanding to its first principles, we find it to lead us into such sentiments, as seem to turn into ridicule all our past pains and industry, and to discourage us from future enquiries.
The experiment was a decided hit, and was followed up next season by an "Auction of Pictures," in which the author lashed with pitiless ridicule the Virtuoso follies of the day.
Tis strange, amid the many trades By which men gather riches, That ridicule should most attach To those who make our breeches!
Biddy was right in resenting the carelessness that exposed her to ridicule and danger; and it was a proper feeling in the old quartermaster to cut the man who would mount his heiress on a break-neck horse.
A shrill chorus of women's laughter came from the kitchen, echoed by a chorus of bass from the stable, and Phil Marsham stepped back in the dark, unwilling to be companioned with the man who had drawn such ridicule upon himself.
She was about to dismiss the company, saying that she had changed her mind, but she remembered that by so doing she might become the subject of the ridicule of the court.
To you I leave the ridicule of our adventure, for if you do not quit my room, I shall take care that all Vienna hears how I took you to Paris as my valet.
No longer can I bear this ridicule of hearing this leper called an empress!
She had not sympathised sufficiently with her small troubles--so she made herself believe--and had found too many occasions to ridicule Page's intenseness and queer little solemnities.
The story is probably untrue and grew out of a song of the times, to ridicule the attempts of numerous preachers to convert Ninon from her way of living.
To the patient who does, he will ridicule it, and disparage Sir Almroth.
Fortunately, when a habit of thought is silly it only needs steady treatment by ridicule from sensible and witty people to be put out of countenance and perish.
I know that youridicule the idea of their consulting their personal safety.
It is so in your own judgment, or you would not hold up to ridicule those humble employments, which reflect disgrace, only where the moral atmosphere is tainted by slavery.
He used to speak of them as devils and hell-hounds, and ridicule them in every possible way; and endeavoured to make me speak of them and regard them in the same manner.
What but ridicule can ever be the portion of the over-greedy?
But in spite of their ridicule he remains there with heart of adamant, proof against shame.
So she got affixed to her by way of ridicule the name of "Ten-slayer.
Thus you see, prince, that foolish persons become the objects of ridicule in the world, and do not succeed in their objects; but wise persons are honoured.
And when the herdsman began to cry, he incurred the ridicule of the people on account of his having been cheated by the rogues, as if he had acquired the stupidity of cattle from having so much to do with them.
He defined these "higher things" as matters which he could not laugh at, or turn to ridicule when happening in his own individual experience.
The secret of this ridicule was, that Vanbrugh was a Whig.
The famous Calves' Head Club (in ridicule of the memory of Charles I.
As for the majority who laugh at andridicule what they have neither the inclination nor the capacity to understand, I hold them in very small account.
An unbiased mind would first endeavour to reach the correct and very superficially hidden meaning before throwing ridicule and contemptuous discredit upon them.
Nothing daunted, he had him put back to bed in spite of the ridicule of those present, and the patient soon revived and fully recovered.
Before any of these gentlemen come forward flippantly to ridicule the public works going on in any part of the country, they should realize that there may be some things they don't know about.
They also deny him in his offices; for to deny and ridicule what he came to do, is one of the most effectual ways of denying him.
Then how amusing it will be to compare my posthumous with my previously given opinions, the one throwing ridiculeon the other!
Next we see him commencing a scurrilous attempt to turn her to ridicule in the First Canto of 'Don Juan.
One manly voice, raised for her in honourable protest, was silenced and overborne by the universal roar of ridicule and reprobation; and henceforth what refuge?
His humorous ridiculeof the Tories was, however, but ill repaid by the Whigs upon their accession to office; at least, if we may trust the beautiful ode of "The Old Whig Poet to his Old Buff Waistcoat.
Truly this would be a new form of ecclesiastical authority, and a new sort of priests or pontiffs, more likely to excite men's ridicule than their veneration.
He was a literary man with literary interests, and the idea which came to him was to ridicule the absurdities of the prevalent literary mode.
That which skeptics in their ignorance are always trying to ridicule is just as essential to a revelation of God in his justice, purity, love and power as the word of God himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ridicule" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
