Word: dismissing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emerges from his book as a nice, slightly baffled man, who can appreciate a sunset, deplore the dehumanization of our modern environment, and feel real concern about man's fate. It's too bad that his book contains so much hystericism, so many contradictions, that readers will probably dismiss even his valid observations...
...sets and lights of Mahala Woolridge, plain and reserved, are unobtrusively fine. And realizing the financial problems of the non-profit Theatre Company of Boston, one can sympathetically accept the limitations of Mary Shepley's monotonously simple, cheezy costumes. It's a bit harder, however, to dismiss some lousy makeup work, most apparent when Karlen enters looking more like a trick-or-treater than a battered Caligula...
...When he hung up, there was a hurried conference in the chambers of Judge John F. Dooling Jr. Then Hoey, still visibly shaken, appeared before the court, announced that Katzenbach had ordered him to drop the prosecution "in the interests of national security." Said Hoey: "The Government moves to dismiss the indictment against both the defendants...
Senator Goldwater's acceptance speech may well have been a "string of platitudes, empty words, and obscure philosophical meanderings," but I think that it was a mistake to dismiss the content of his speech as "hardly worth mentioning...
...Rockefeller brought the truth into the open by filing suit to get the children back. Her petition stated that Murphy had custody originally-and now she has won the first round in her battle to reverse the award. A White Plains, N.Y., judge overruled Murphy's plea to dismiss the case, instead scheduled it for trial-in chambers-on Sept...