1.   But when he got to the part where I compared my beloved to the pumpkin I was carving, the class erupted in derisive laughter.

2.   But when this brilliant young musician presented a recording of the Brahms violin concerto to the class, she was met with derisive laughter.

3.   For the record, despite occasional shouts and derisive laughter and much speaking out of turn, no blows were struck.

4.   It thrills in an elusive way, it sometimes astonishes, and it eventually generates waves of derisive laughter.

5.   Nader is in the great tradition of political die-hards who stubbornly hope against hope that they can keep the reporters and speaking fees coming despite all the derisive laughter.

6.   Was that derisive laughter you heard as the door was closing?

7.   When I suggested to Gadhafi that the downing of the other airliners might have been the result of miscommunications, he broke into derisive laughter.

8.   When I suggested to Qaddafi that the downing of the other airliners might have been the result of miscommunications, he broke into derisive laughter.

9.   Words like fraud were bandied about, apologies asked for and derisive laughter heard but evidently no fists thrown.

10.   Derisive laughter erupted when he said the Bush administration had not decided whether or not Israel was using U.S. weapons illegally against Palestinians.