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Example sentences for: derides

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"What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something of significance" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times derides it as a "frankly and cheerfully fascist big-star movie," labels the violence "macho porn," and frets that though "sensible people know that if you hit someone with an ungloved hand hard enough, you're going to end up with broken bones, the guys in Fight Club have fists of steel, and hammer one another while the sound effects guys beat the hell out of Naugahyde sofas with Ping-Pong paddles."
The article derides Bush's much publicized parachute jump.
Time derides John Gray, the author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus , as an egomaniacal huckster who's making millions selling banalities to vulnerable couples.
Also on the theme of lefty hypocrisy, a piece derides the "steep decline of liberal moralism."
That formulation strikes me as emblematic of the very ornamental culture that Faludi derides.