One may wish to dismiss Jesus Christ, or Julius Caesar, as fairy stories, even as bunk, but, until one has examined the evidence in Anderson's forensic manner, that's a premature judgment.
Sensitive liberals who avoid expressions like "ghetto blaster," because that might be racially offensive, blithely dismiss conservative Christians as "Jesus freaks" or "fanatics".
But when the small groups grew to be large crowds, Jesus dismissed the people, and he and his disciples withdrew to remote areas.
Even the term itself was conjured up as an insult by the boss of Food Records (Blur, Idlewild, er, Jesus Jones) to dismiss what he saw as fey, wall-of-reverb enthusiasts, hiding behind their fringes and staring glumly at the floor (see what he did there?).
The woman is not Jewish and, as a result, Jesus seems to dismiss her with a callous comment: "It is not fair to take children's food and throw it to the dogs".
In Jesus Christ, God can legally dismiss your case.
Players compare their favorite things, such as love interests or even types of Jesus, and celebrate their like-mindedness or dismiss each other for their lack of taste.
When Jesus finally dismisses the tempter at the end of the work, the reader recognizes that the encounters in Paradise Regained reflect a high degree of psychological verisimilitude.
He was the last person in Britain to be hanged for blasphemy, and though he gained notoriety for preferring Muhammad to Jesus and dismissing the Old Testament as "Ezra's fables", it is quite possible that the most dangerous thing he did was to intimate that "Man's imagination, raised by art and industry, could do as much as our blessed Saviour did".
On the first night in Denver, as the fellow MSNBC host Joe Scarborough talked about the resurgence of the McCain campaign, Mr. Olbermann dismissed it by saying: "Jesus, Joe, why don't you get a shovel?" The following night, Mr. Olbermann and his co-anchor for convention coverage, Mr. Matthews, had their own squabble after Mr. Olbermann observed that Mr. Matthews had talked too long.
