| Where's his old fire, the dismissive rebuke, the sardonic encapsulation, the trademark outspokenness? |
| His literary criticism, often intemperate, was cruelly dismissive of his fellow Irish writers. |
| Handsome, dedicated and dangerous young men were a dime a dozen in Ireland, and his frequently dismissive treatment of women didn't help. |
| First you get a period of moral panic, then a grudging, dismissive acceptance, and then, eventually, a recognition of cultural worth. |
| As artists we enjoy being provocatively inventive, suspicious of authority, and dismissive of the past. |
| Kitsch, I decided, is art that bears a cynical or dismissive relation to life. |
