Word: dismissiveness
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...best [sculptor] in any of the European States," to do a statue of Washington. With Franklin he traveled to the U. S., stayed two weeks at Mount Vernon, took measurements, made plaster casts. He is said to have sought vainly for the desired facial expression until he saw Washington dismiss an avaricious horse trader...
...face that bore marks of the pox in puffy profusion. His audience was his tutor, to whose reprovals he was retorting. Indignant, the tutor reported the cause of the reproval to Mirabeau Sr.: "Must I confess to you, Monsieur, that his ways have already forced me to dismiss two maids...
Milly Burden became pregnant in a small Virginia town. Her lover, Martin Welding, a nervewracked U. S. soldier, had returned to France after the War. Yet Lawyer Littlepage, to whom Milly was secretary, forbore to dismiss her despite her flippancy, her sullen desire to live her own life regardless of the opinions of others. Furthermore Milly reminded Lawyer Littlepage of his daughter, Mary Victoria. Encouraged by softness, Milly confided her worry over Welding's nerves. In return, Lawyer Littlepage had Mary Victoria, who was in Europe, look Welding...
...doubt Mr. Long himself would not be unwilling to change his opinion of Harvard undergraduates were he to listen "to their comments on the CRIMSON article." They do not "dismiss it as the ranting of some addle-pate who has been reading some cynical books," but rather as the initial move in an attempt to clear away the "War Posters" from the walls of Widener...
...better proof of the fact that this "editorial" is entirely out of step with the opinion of the average Harvard boy can be had than by listening to their comments on the Crimson article: they simply dismiss it as the ranting of some addle-pate who has been reading some cynical books, and is trying to show how terribly "intellectual" he has become through the reading...