Sentence examples for dismissed as normal from inspiring English sources

The book also takes on the notion that the early symptoms, especially menstrual pain, can be dismissed as normal -- something many doctors are taught and many women believe.

I mentioned my painful periods to various healthcare professionals, for example the nurse when I went for smear, and it was always dismissed as normal.

All anyone knew was that the disease followed a relentless path, starting with symptoms so subtle they could be dismissed as normal carelessness or inattentiveness.

But when her daughter, Grace, was 3 months old she was transferred to a different hospital, where the doctors insisted on subjecting her to a battery of tests for symptoms that other doctors had dismissed as normal for her condition.

A crowd of bodybuilders piling on a single woman is described as "group sex"; 25-year-old accusations are chewed over while fresh ones are ignored; crudely sexist treatment of women is dismissed as normal for movie stars, and therefore irrelevant to Mr. Schwarzenegger's political career -- even though his celebrity is the basis of his political career.

"The growing list of incidents suggesting racial bias reflects an unacceptable corporate culture and involves behavior that cannot be dismissed as normal or random".

She said Butler's description of the younger sibling as "an abs[olute] cunt" was shocking, language Butler tried to dismiss as normal during his trial.

Schools will be dismissed as usual".

If you tell a colleague you are being treated for depression, your feelings may be dismissed as a normal case of "the blues".

What needs to change so that the attitudes exemplified in such remarks aren't dismissed as just normal guy talk?" Next, discuss sexual objectification.

In reality, clinical symptoms of AD can begin as subtle changes years before a diagnosis of dementia and may even be dismissed as symptoms of normal aging1,13.