| It is another example not only of dismissiveness of the lesser code, but insensitive timing also. |
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| But I do think that the fascination, condemnation, and dismissiveness of a lot of the talk about it speaks to the misogyny of our culture. |
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| Some in Brussels reckon his seeming dismissiveness reflects a disdain for diplomatic formality rather than an ideological euroscepticism. |
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| Such dismissiveness is the luxury of those who are accustomed to setting the terms of public discourse. |
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| They tend to resort to non-argument methods like non-validated dismissiveness, arrogance, viciousness, dogpiling, lies, contempt, mockery, vulgarity. |
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| He watched Burke in action, too, and was equally dismissive of Burke's dismissiveness. |
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| The dismissiveness of the DFO officials toward elected members of the House was astounding. |
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| The affable John Southworth registers his discontent mildly yet emphatically, his soft British accent shading the offending phrase with the damning taint of dismissiveness. |
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| O'Connor herself was never dismissive of any aspect of life, other than the intellectual's own dismissiveness or the bigot's blindness. |
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| Yet such dismissiveness was in itself the product of contest. |
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| I must also acknowledge, however, how hard it is to change a culture of dismissiveness, long developed within ourselves, in our own countries and in the mission areas. |
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| The envoys' reception was so offhand that they decided to cut their trip short and returned home in a huff. Other critics have met with similar dismissiveness of late. |
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| Like Shakespeare by Another Name, Rodney Bolt's History Play shows a sneering dismissiveness toward the Stratford player, used as a beard by a superior mind. |
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