Word: dismissiveness
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...confidence and omniscience are a thrill, but they can also be somewhat annoying. Sometimes you just long to pick an argument with the man. How can he be so sure? So right? Wolfe tends to dismiss out of hand trends or ideas with which he has no affinity, especially intellectual styles related to deconstructionism and postmodernism. The temptation to ask The Question-does Tom Wolfe know what he's talking about?-is always hovering in the back of your mind. Maybe he's not totally right. Maybe he doesn't really understand the complexities of Foucault, the intricacies involved...
...Drew Pinsky, a physician and co-host of MTV's recently canceled Loveline advice program, is a proponent of this notion. "MTV," he asserts, "is absolutely one of the factors in early puberty." But even though the idea sounds nutty, says Herman-Giddens, "it would not be scientific to dismiss it. If someone cuts a nice juicy grapefruit in front of you, you salivate. Seeing things can affect us physiologically...
Neither Taylor nor Forum's lawyers would comment on Hay and Shleifer's liability. Taylor said Harvard has not decided whether it will file a motion to dismiss the suit...
...instantly be on the phone with PETA. However, when the poor creature is no more than a figure created with a computer drawing program (as it is in the short "Stinky Monkey"), the animal abuse is nothing less than hilarious. Spike and Mike have capitalized on this tendency to dismiss animation as frivolous to show cartoons that, if seriously considered, would deeply offend. For instance, the masturbation scene in "Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in the World" contains a shot that an audience might find funny in a live action movie if it weren't so completely politically...
...undergraduates were raped at Harvard last year. And that is just in the last year. Sexual assault happens here with survivors knowing their attackers. It happens in dorm rooms and at parties. It happens to people you know. Do not be so afraid to hear these words that you dismiss them...