Word: dismissiveness
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...waiting because he doesn't want to deny anything which might later be proven true. A wise legal move. Unfortunately, it's a devastating ethical move. I don't believe him now. I wanted him to be honestly angry from the beginning, to deny the charges and dismiss them as the ludicrous fantasies of an imaginative young woman. But he did not, not convincingly, not until the pleas of his aides and the country forced him to say something...
...mavens in the U.S. worried much about any ripples reaching home. Too distant, too little. Too bad. But the arrogance has begun to fade. Our unstoppable bull market in stocks has, well, stopped. It is now apparent that the Far East's economic troubles have become too deep to dismiss...
...others dismiss such portraits of a prodigious manipulator. "Part of Ted's affliction is the inability to stop analyzing," says Kaczynski family attorney Bisceglie. "If you go back to the letters and the manifesto, you will see this analysis and re-analysis and analyses of analyses and endless drawing of distinctions and of footnotes. It's almost as if he has no off switch. He isn't in control...
...which is reaching a conclusion--as lawyers in training--as to the degree of proof they would need to act on behalf of a client, whether that action is writing a letter for your client (as Finberg has done), making an allegation, surviving a motion to dismiss in court or winning a law suit. Since Nesson's class is about the Laws of Evidence (federally-mandated regulations governing how courts may proceed, a.k.a. the basis for attorneys' cries of "objection"), the question then becomes, "What can we prove...
...People are idiots--I don't know why people don't allow themselves to be happy. There are so few things in the world that can make you genuinely happy, so why not just be as open-minded as possible. It drives me crazy when people dismiss things out of prejudice. You can take the same liberal college student, NPR-listening person who would consider themselves very open-minded and very tolerant, [they] would never give the Spice Girls a chance. To me that's just blatant prejudice...