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Merciful goodness!--if John Barleycorn could get such sway over me, a non-alcoholic, what must be the sufferings of the true alcoholic, battling against the organic demands of his chemistry while those closest to him sympathise little, understand less, and despise and deride him!

To deride all the refined attainments of human skill denotes ignorance of the means of human happiness, nor is it any evidence of acquaintance with the intricate machinery of social greatness and a lofty civilization.

Why, simply, to make fun of an old woman--to deride, to hiss, to jeer at an actress they once worshipped, but whose beauty is faded now and whose voice has lost its former richness.

Whether he noticed the look of terror with which Pierre regarded that lifeless arm, or whether some other thought flitted across his dying brain, at any rate he glanced at the refractory arm, at Pierre's terror-stricken face, and again at the arm, and on his face a feeble, piteous smile appeared, quite out of keeping with his features, that seemed to deride his own helplessness.

From the first my fellow-pupils used to tease and deride and mock me whenever I was saying my lessons.

He touts his experience and derides Republican Ted Cruz as "the most extreme Senate candidate in Texas history."

Thus, the political consensus in Britain--led by the leftist BBC and most politicians across all three parties--openly derides those who view the threat posed to Western civilisation by militant Islam as the defining issue of the 21st century as "stark, staring bonkers." And news reports that Hezbollah sleeper cells have been ordered to prepare to carry out terror attacks on London and other European cities to protest the recent Israeli bombardment of Lebanon are therefore ignored.

Observing that some middle schools, like the KIPP academies, have enjoyed enormous success by focusing on academics and establishing a culture of high expectations, Florida education commissioner Cheri Yecke seeks to overturn the conception of middle schooling that derides the importance of academic instruction.

Here is a lady who has had a lot of ups and downs in her life but always tries to write them in a way that people can relate to She never derides other people's views, unlike Ian Parri with his anti-English stance and ill-informed rhetoric, and David Banks is not much better Inform Ian Parri and David Banks that a large number of readers are English.