She was inclined to deride Mr. Hemingway's mania for firearms and thereby often hurt his feelings.
-- "Hemingway's Prize-Winning Works Reflected Preoccupation With Life and Death", New York Times, July 3, 1961
I had no desire to endorse idiocy -- but neither could I be seen to deride a colleague.
-- Michael Foley, Getting Used to Not Being Remarkable
It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.
-- William Safire, "The Counter-Revolution", New York Times, May 22, 1989
