Just look at the films James Agee was championing and dismissing in a given column, as when he plowed through "Life With Father," "Thunderbolt," "The Macomber Affair," "Miracle on 34th Street" and a couple other titles in a single 1947 week.
For a movie critic, watching the series was as chastening as it was fascinating, a reminder that even -- or perhaps especially -- those movies we are likely to sit through with one eye on our watches and dismiss in a few hundred words are the product of long, rainy days, furious arguments, and, behind it all, somebody's desperate, determined desire to make a good movie.
Reviled in the days of Al Capone and John Dillinger as a haven for hoodlums, Chicago was maligned for years for its cheerful civic corruption and dismissed in the effete East as a hick town.
The discourse surrounding women in VFX has only been briefly broached and largely dismissed in a few industry-specific blogs and trade magazines.
The cases were consolidated by the three-judge panel, and both were dismissed in a ruling to be published Monday.
Judge Norman Mordue of United States District Court found that "there is no genuine issue as to any material fact" in the 1995 antitrust case, and ordered that it be dismissed in a decision rendered on June 29.
OUTS AND INS OF CASTING -- Two actors dismissed in a pay dispute with the popular CBS television drama "C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation" have been reinstated but without the big raises they sought, Reuters reported.
My preconceptions are dismissed in a moment.
David Warner and Steve Smith hit some crisp strokes off the twin spin of Rangana Herath and Perera, however following a rapid 51-run partnership, the vice-captain and then captain were dismissed in an all-too-familiar mode in this series.
