When the West End production of Streetcar opened in October 1949, J. B. Priestley denounced the play and Leigh's performance; and the critic Kenneth Tynan, who was to make a habit of dismissing her stage performances, commented that Leigh was badly miscast because British actors were "too well-bred to emote effectively on stage".
You are not from the cynical Nicholas de Jongh school; in his Standard review, he dismisses the stage design's "distracting sumptuousness".
He has not yet ruled, but winning a motion to dismiss at this stage is difficult, so there is a good chance the case will also move forward.
The standard for deciding a motion to dismiss at this stage is quite low: all that the S.E.C. has to show is it could prove the charges if the case goes to trial.
Based on Auguste Comte's work, Positivism allowed anticlerical thinkers to dismiss the "theological" stage as a primitive state in the evolution of humanity, one that would inevitably be superseded by the "metaphysic" and "scientific" stages.
A month ago the music critic for Le Monde walked out of the "Messiah" production after intermission, dismissing the staging as something akin to "special effects of an Ibiza nightclub," and the conducting as nothing more than "banal".
Such requests are routinely made by defense lawyers, and it is rare for judges to dismiss cases at that stage, when the government cannot appeal the decision.
Romney and Bush, who did not attend Saturday's rally, were dismissed from the stage by several speakers.
The three judges, the lord chief justice, Lord Thomas, the master of the rolls, Sir Terence Etherton, and lord justice Sales at one stage dismissed the government's argument as being "divorced from reality".
