dismissiveness

• “That dismissiveness is broken, every now and again, with a word (or, more commonly, and internal monologue) about his unspoken respect.”

  Your Mileage May Vary | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment

• “While I think his ethical position is, if uninteresting, unexceptionable enough, his refusal to confront the political connection Foucault makes except with such bland dismissiveness is insufficient precisely because uninteresting.”

  Notes on 'Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality'

• “By contrast, you’ve adopted a general tone of near contempt and dismissiveness from the start (from the point where you more recent responded directly to me.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy

• “He wanted us to see through Brian O’Nolan and his hard-boiled Dublin dismissiveness, to see beyond the local legend of wasted talent.”

  The Last Laugh

• “Documents from early in the year suggest a casual dismissiveness of the rebellion.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Inside a Flawed Spy Machine as Gadhafi's Rule Crumbled

• “On the contrary, I see unending contempt for heroes around him, and a regular dismissiveness in his dealings with him.”

  Your Mileage May Vary | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment

• “Well, there's a whole continuum of agnosticism but there generally isn't the contempt or dismissiveness or ridicule (think Bill Maher's film Religulous) of religion.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Krasny: Just Say 'I Don't Know'

• “Coming from someone with such a powerful position in journalism, this represents a remarkable level of dismissiveness towards the way millions and millions of people prefer to consume news these days.”

  The Washington Post: Bill Keller's wrongheaded attack on HuffPo

• “So when President Obama went to Massachusetts to try to revive DemocratMartha Coakley's hapless campaign and in the process dismissed Brown's truck, it symbolized something much larger — the dismissiveness Democrats have directed at independents who have been leaving them in droves.”

  In politics, never dis a pickup

• “If you can suffer through the dismissiveness of the supporting characters, and Vlad's less-than-enthralling pines for Meredith, there's a decent little story to be had here.”

  Book Review: "Eighth Grade Bites" by Heather Brewer

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