Rick Bayless, in a chef's jacket, snorted in derision but added the meat.

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The showdown between Plainview and Eli had preview audiences hooting in derision.

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Shania has received a lot of derision in the press for this out-of-the-blue defense of her ex.

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Increasingly, the niches are being defended with services, in this context not the term of derision it often is in manufacturing circles.

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Yet even his philanthropic ambitions are greeted with wariness, or outright derision, by some in Slim's home country.

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The bad news is that it involves the kind of European group-hug that inspires derision, not confidence, in hedge-fund managers.

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New York City Public Advocate Bill de Brasio released a list of investment firms that owned gun stocks in hopes of increasing the outcry and derision.

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The Frenchman, who led Liverpool to a historic treble of the League, FA and Uefa Cups in 2001, said he could shoulder the derision and called on the Villa support to unite behind the club.

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True, and necessary, but it establishes a dynamic in which the weak and slow are the near-immediate target of derision.

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Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg prompted widespread derision from the opposition benches as he declined to rule out taking a seat in the House of Lords under an appointed system, were his planned reforms to fail.

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