His wrath, then, was proportionately violent when he was aware of two boys, who stopped close by him, and one of whom, a fat gaby of a fellow, pointed at him and called him "Young mammy-sick!" Whereupon Tom arose, and giving vent thus to his grief and shame and rage, smote his
derider on the nose; and made it bleed; which sent that young worthy howling to the usher, who reported Tom for violent and unprovoked assault and battery.
De belles choses de la vie, de la joie de vivre et du plaisir de
derider. La difficulte derangeante etait omnipresente dans ses choix, face a la facilite arrangeante...
Sure punishment of pinched ears and hot painful cheeks for late arrival from school is forgotten as the four friends hide in a favourite part of the bush to settle their innocent score.span xml:lang="EN-GBCLOSELY OBSERVED STRANGERspan xml:lang="EN-GBAs they prepare to see who between Wasiwasi and his chief
derider, Wamuyu, is the undisputed wizard of the game of marbles, a nervous stranger attracts their attention.
L'idole ivoirienne n'a pas su
derider la partie des la premiere periode, engoncee dans la pression de ce classique entre le roi des podiums (13 en 16 participations nigerianes passees) et le roi des favoris, et dont le perdant s'attendait a essuyer un orage populaire une fois de retour a la maison.
Indeed the laughable aspect of "rusty" old Krapp has changed from beginning to end, spanning, as Ronan McDonald says: "[a] rich and multiple irony, in which the middle-aged man derides his youthful ambitions and then, years later, derides the
derider. The sheer disappointment of advancing age has rarely been dramatized with an economy that so satisfyingly combines poignancy and humor" (The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett 60).
He shows throughout the ubiquity of the Jew as torturer, disrupter of Christian ritual,
derider of Christ and his mother.