Word: dismissals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Madonna’s false conflation of middle age and the loss of femininity, the performance was a clever and timely send-up of the outdated “something borrowed, something blue” wedding clichés that even the Democratic nominees have been too cowardly to dismiss as part of a repressed, discriminatory past...
...long with his fingers in his ears. It has been well-publicized that Bush distrusts most media sources and instead receives his information from close (and biased) advisers. It is no wonder then that Bush remains so out of touch with reality—and so willing to dismiss the many critics who raise valid concerns domestically and abroad. With any luck, voters will send him a message that hits a lot harder than an electronic political Mad Lib this November...
...risking federal funding. NYU Law School and several other schools and faculties have formed the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), which has filed suit in federal court to challenge the Solomon Amendment. The suit raises substantial constitutional and statutory issues, and has already survived a motion to dismiss. Harvard has been warmly invited to join FAIR. Again, we ask President Summers to allow Harvard Law School to join FAIR, or to bring its own similar lawsuit challenging the presence of discriminatory recruiters on Harvard’s campus...
...Chill, all the characters eventually dismiss their principles and beliefs as simply being a part of youth and accept conservatism as a part of adulthood and having a family. In this film, however, the characters merely mourn the loss of their youth and the changes that have taken place since their youth...
...frustrated with people who dismiss her studies. She says people often ask “What are you really doing?” “People don’t really see art as an important thing. They don’t see what art can do for you, how it can change your life,” she says...