I never walked out of a room with her, never hung up on the phone with her, never dismissed myself from her presence without both of us expressing love to each other, no matter how heated the conversation".
As my breasts were under the computer tomographer, I almost dismissed myself from the hospital.
"To tell you the truth, I've heard Richard give several lectures on this topic but I've said [previously] there's no archaeological evidence, so I dismissed it myself," he said.
Other people are less interested, or simply couldn't care less, and would probably dismiss someone like myself as a crank, just for being vegetarian.
So this week I was determined to have a little bit more fun out there, dismiss bad shots, tell myself they really didn't matter.
I had a version of it that I'm sure a younger version of myself would dismiss and I thought, "Well, I'm 40 now.
Nor could I dismiss the thoughts of myself 40 years ago when I was about the same age as the young woman with the blue hair.
As I tried to tune out the women's conversation, I also could not dismiss the thoughts of myself 20+ years ago when I was a high school teacher.
I take a moment to compose myself and dismiss my overactive cinematic imagination, but a paragraph from Gomorrah pops into my head, about how it's better (meaning faster and cleaner) to die from a shot to the head, than one to the heart.
As a historian myself, I hardly dismiss LBJ's role in civil rights history out of hand.
