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- verb Present participle of
handwave .
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Examples
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Or it gets handwaved away, like Clarke in Childhood's End and 3001 (I think?)
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They've justified and excused and handwaved and swept it all under the rug.
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We enter the land of Oz, skipping down the Yellow Brick Road like a gaggle of cartoon characters (to steal some of Rob's own thunder) ... well, all I can say is, when the flying monkeys arrive in a neihborhood near you, and you realize this is no movie, no TV show -- just recall the dissenting voices you once handwaved so teary eyed and "full of joy". by
Share the Joy. The World Has a New President of the USA 2009
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However, the consequences of the crisis are not handwaved away.
The Naked God by Peter F. Hamilton Adam Whitehead 2009
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But this is all handwaved by this opening fusillade of building a deck of denial which go on to load what ever real information that might plausibly fit on it.
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Note I handwaved the rest of the stuff as “some wicked fast digital logic.”
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What's being handwaved away is the role the person's religion played in the process, not their willingness to stand up to evil.
Those damned media atheists. Ann Althouse 2007
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All Zubrin and Andrews have done is work out a mathematical framework, dependent upon the development of several non-existent technologies whose properties are, at the moment, handwaved into existence for the purpose of doing the math.
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All Zubrin and Andrews have done is work out a mathematical framework, dependent upon the development of several non-existent technologies whose properties are, at the moment, handwaved into existence for the purpose of doing the math.
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That's an accomplishment that can't be just handwaved as "crap."
Things The Ferrett Does Not Get #2,742: It's Not Unusual To Be Loved By Me 2004
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