Word: debunked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...matter how hard quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick tries to debunk Harvard stereotypes, people keep trying to fit him to the mold...
...agree that teaching an official party line is the last role we want our professors to fill. Indeed, one of the greatest triumphs of the art and art theory in the past 50 years has been to debunk myths of absolutisms. And, of course, I also see that despite my pretensions to addressing broader issues in my art, my desire for social meaning could easily be dismissed as merely my own idiosyncratic mode of personal expression...
Members of Congress, academics around the country, and professors from Harvard were quick to debunk the State Department’s reasoning...
...filmmaker Don Larson (George Calil) and his translator, Wali Zarif (Wali Razaqui) to record and possibly join the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The foibles in the fiction prompt a host of questions that distract from the substantive reflection that the film would otherwise promote. Johnston aims to debunk the myths of the Afghani situation, but should have realized that original footage of a war zone’s unseen chaos speaks for itself...
Johnston aims to debunk the myths of the Afghani situation—Lars asks accusatorily, “Where’s the US military? Where’s CNN?”—and seems to want to extract the truth of U.S. foreign policy from its many layers of spin. So he should probably know better: Fictionalization obscures meaning, marginalizing from the public consciousness what deserves a place at the forefront. The stateside studio is the place for genre experimentation; original footage of a war zone’s unseen chaos speaks for itself...