Word: dismissals
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...beginning of the interview Gould shrugs a lot. He seems almost reluctant to speak; when he does it is in brief sentences. But he is quick to dismiss his critics and just as quick to praise his supporters and collaborators. When I read him part of Mark Ridley’s New York Times review of The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, Gould calls Ridley “one of my enemies” and scoffs at his comment that the book is too wordy. Two days later Gould paid generous tribute to Ernst Mayr, a forefather of the theory...
This spring, Crockett is quick to dismiss any concerns over his elbow...
...could chalk up my experience to the ravings of a lunatic; you could dismiss me as weak-willed or yellow-bellied. But I think that my irrational, obsessive fear of flying is intimately related to the qualities that got me into Harvard. My ability to concentrate, my independence, my highly-trained skepticism all contributed to an obsessive fear that got out of hand. Once the seeds of doubt were sowed, my mind voraciously seized on the question, analyzing every potential hazardous scenario, playing out the screaming voices in ever-more excruciating detail. The focus that is usually so helpful...
...soon as the campaign-finance-reform bill won final passage last week, it became fashionable to dismiss it as too weak to clean up the money game. But if President Bush signs the bill, as he says he will, and if it survives a court challenge, it will put a damper on at least one type of feeding frenzy: soft-money bacchanals like the one last May, when 3,000 gathered at the D.C. Armory for a black-tie gala honoring the new President. In his speech, George W. Bush noted Washington's "many temptations," one of which...
...colonel remarks. "We can't let that happen again." The U.N.'s Brahimi agrees: "The U.S. came here only when the consequences reached them. We've been shouting from here for years and nobody was listening. But globalization works in every field and in today's world you cannot dismiss a country because it's small or far away. Because one day it will blow up in your face...