Word: dismissiveness
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...Ernst married an American girl who had attended the Dayton Art Institute. When she happened on the oils stuffed in a trunk, her husband assured her: "They're nothing-just some junk I got gypped on." Unable to dismiss them from her mind, Mrs. Ernst spent seven years trying to identify them in art books and libraries. Finally, in 1945, she convinced her husband that they should take the paintings to New York. Art dealers there declared the badly cracked canvases to be worthless fakes or copies. But by searching in the New York Public Library, the Ernsts found...
There are also certain, more basic issues with which one must come to grips. Like, how should you feel about sex? Is it a good thing? Is it even worth talking about? Or does everyone know about it already? Well, I suppose it's all right to dismiss it summarily, since everyone knows that among the jeunesse doree this sort of thing goes on all the time, so why bother describing it. But certainly you're not going to admit that jet set "secrets and morals" don't go beyond occasional, normal, heterosexual, humdrum, friendly encounters? Be bored with something...
...going to get in Wrigley Field and 'put one over the plate for Jesus baby,' " says a Georgia coed. Even union members have little sense of militancy. Having little fear that they will ever lack material comforts for their own part, the young tend to dismiss as superficial and irrelevant their elders' success-oriented lives. "You waited," sniffs a young Californian. "We won't." Nonetheless, today's youth appears more deeply committed to the fundamental Western ethos-decency, tolerance, brotherhood-than
...strengthen the Fourth Amendment, Douglas argued, the court should have required the Lewis-case narcotics agent to get a search warrant, for which he had probable cause. In Hoffa, even though Douglas voted to dismiss on technical grounds, he denounced the Government for " 'planting' a friend in a person's entourage so that he can secure incriminating evidence." In Osborn, Douglas argued that even prior judicial approval of Vick's bugging violated the Fourth Amendment ban against a search designed to uncover anything more than the loot or the tools of a crime. Moreover, he insisted...
Some dentists dismiss such precautionary measures as too costly and unnecessary. But all radiation (except that used in medical treatment for specific diseases) is bad. The PHS urges that every patient's body be protected with a lead apron, and it is backing several inventive dentists in their efforts to develop safer machines...