Word: dismissiveness
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Describing himself as "cautiously optimistic," he talks about "being nervous about a few spots" and "waiting for the year to get started" before making any firm statements, but an underlying confidence in his voice's timbre is hard to dismiss: his team is stacked, and he knows...
...running away in fear from the lion and the crocodile, while a snake winds down the tree where he had sought refuge. "They are a souvenir of all the problems in Rwanda," she says. Augustin Makama, a Tutsi exile who has just returned from Uganda, does not entirely dismiss the reports of Tutsi reprisals in the countryside. Most of the stories are propaganda, he says -- and pauses. "Some, I don't know. What might someone do if he meets the man who killed his children...
...earlier hearing. During intense grilling by committee members, Altman pointed out that three independent investigations had discovered no interference by Clinton Administration officials in the case of the failed Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. Earlier in the day, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen's chief of staff, Joshua Steiner, tried to dismiss the accuracy of entries in his diary, in which he had written that Altman had "gracefully ducked" a question about Whitewater-related meetings...
Most of the pieces Byrd wrote for the viol consort were based on a plainsong theme, supported by contrapuntal figurations by the accompanying instruments. Though the bare-bones outline of the form itself is admittedly simple, those who simply dismiss Byrd's mantric writing as constricting or stultifying miss the point...
...would be a mistake to dismiss the computer-message boards or to underestimate the effect a lifetime of dashing off E-mail will have on a generation of young writers. The computer networks may not be Brook Farm or the Globe Theatre, but they do represent, for millions of people, a living, breathing life of letters. One suspects that the Bard himself, confronted with the Internet, might have dived right in and never logged...