Word: dismissiveness
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Like the liberals, the new New Right leaders dismiss past conservatives as "reactionaries." Scoffs Lyn Nofziger, a longtime Reagan aide: "The old right were talkers and pamphleteers. They would just as soon go down in flames as win. But the New Right has moved toward a more pragmatic goal of accomplishing things...
...there it is, staring you in the face at your happy, additive-filled meals every day, telling you to Eat Up! After all, people in "underdeveloped countries" would die to eat the additives you so cavalierly dismiss as "cancer-producing."(Oops...
...effort that went into Goodbar was exhausting. "We all got so sick of me, day after day," Keaton remembers. A residue of Theresa stayed with Keaton after each day's shooting. "The parts where I had to be bitchy were hard to dismiss. I would go home feeling really rotten...
...inner fear that perhaps he is just as conventional and bound by the past as the inhabitants of "The City of Dreadful Night" (his epithet for Boston). It is this kind of contradiction that gives depth to the character of someone it would otherwise be all to easy to dismiss as a facile, blotting-paper intellectual, a worthless dilettante with an inordinate passion for shop-girls, racehorses and opium (which he called his "black idol...
...Head Taxpayers Association moved to intervene two years after the Indians filed their suit. A stormy Gay Head town meeting, which received extensive coverage from the national media, provided the opposition's impetus. After the dust settled, the town of Gay Head, with an Indian majority, voted both to dismiss the lawyer the town hired to defend the suit against the tribal council and to give the contested land to the Indians. Vague hints that the town might wish to code even more land to the Wampanoags upset the whites, so the Taxpayer's Association initiated legal action...