Word: dismissiveness
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Unlike Nora, a contemporary feminist realizes the larger dimensions of her rebellion. Unlike Nora, she is not alone in her struggle and not an individualist idealist. She has the force of a history of public outcry to fire her collective faith. And because of this, she can dismiss Nora's dilemma without too much agonizing...
...Milton! Thou should'st be living at this hour." Neither, as it turns out, need any Milton lover be too greatly cast down. History (like Collier) has not been kind to the Fall of Man-a satisfying and perhaps necessary myth which the modern world unwisely tends to dismiss as simple misinformation...
Radcliffe administrators have spent much of the year fighting for Harvard appropriations for Radcliffe activities such as Education for Action and women's athletics. Most critically, the persistence of the Radcliffe corporation provides a rationale for Harvard to dismiss any issue pertaining to women in the university -- be it equal admission, money for athletics or equitable faculty and staff hiring -- with the claim that such matters are not urgent or are out of Harvard's domain...
...confusions of Watergate can even become mildly fratricidal. When Senator James Buckley of New York tried to dismiss the whole affair as "morbid cynicism," he prompted a public protest from his younger brother Bill, who accused Nixon of "taking the Fifth Amendment" on the problem...
Byrne had three basic alternatives: 1) declare a mistrial, which would expose the defendants to retrial before a new jury; 2) dismiss the indictments in such a way that the government could never again prosecute these defendants for the same alleged offenses (these two might be combined); or 3) send the case to the jury and decide later whether to throw out a possible guilty verdict if further investigation incriminated the Government still more deeply...