2008 examples of ridicules in sentences

The consultation between the physicians, in Act 3, amusingly ridicules the pomposity of by-gone medical professors.

" Shirley, in his "Sisters," ridicules these hyperbolical compliments in a similar but a better strain "Were it not fine If you should see your mistress without hair, Drest only with those glittering beams you talk of?

In the "Defense of Poesie" Sidney upholds the classics and ridicules the too ambitious scope of the English drama.

It is for the most part taken from Corneille's Feint Astrologue, Moliere's Depit Amoreux, and Precieux Ridicules.

He will not tolerate romantic emotions or sentimentalism, which he ridicules with a reckless audacity, a literal incisiveness, and a satiric wit that none of his contemporaries can excel.

Ninon never hesitated to declaim against the fictitious beauty that pretended to inculcate virtue and morality while secretly engaged in the most corrupt practices, but Molière came with his Précieuses Ridicules and pulverized the enemies of human nature.

Naevius also, who in fact was generally less scrupulous, ridicules the Praenestines and Lanuvini (Com. 21, Ribb.).

He ridicules marriage purity.

The first ridicules Persons by drawing them in their proper Characters, the other by drawing them quite unlike themselves.

Thomas Fuller (1645) ridicules tradition and consider the stones to be artificial and probably made of sand (!) on the spot.

Alman'zor, lackey of Madelon and her cousin Cathos, the affected fine ladies in Molière's comedy of Les Précieuses Ridicules (1659).

"Therefore," she continued, "every time that France uncovers a part of our maneuvers, the opinion of the world which believes only in ingenious and difficult things ridicules it, considering it attacked with a delirium of persecution.

His chief assailants are the authors of The Canons of Criticism, and of The Revisal of Shakespeare's Text; of whom one ridicules his errours with airy petulance, suitable enough to the levity of the controversy; the other attacks them with gloomy malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or incendiary.

Les précieuses ridicules.

Les précieuses ridicules.

Les precieuses ridicules, Le Tartuffe-Le misanthrope.

Les precieuses ridicules.

Les precieuses ridicules.

Les precieuses ridicules.

Les précieuses ridicules.

Les precieuses ridicules.

Les precieuses ridicules.

In the text Swift ridicules this in the reference to "black pudding."

He is likewise very satirical upon the public forms of devotion in his own country (a qualification absolutely necessary to a freethinker) yet those forms which he ridicules, are the very same that now pass for true worship in almost all countries: I am sure some of them do so in ours; such as abject looks, distortions, wry faces, beggarly tones, humiliation, and contrition.

I saw "Les Précieuses Ridicules" finely done, and I said to myself then, as I have often said since: "Old schoolnew school?

2008 examples of  ridicules  in sentences