It is hard to dismiss somebody as a right-wing nut if they spend more time talking about education than anything else and if they steal many of their best ideas from Democrats.Marshall Whittman, a political analyst at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank, points out that this policy offensive is also eroding Mr Bush's second big negative: his reputation as a lightweight.
Let them be dismissed by somebody's phrase (I wish to heaven it were mine) — "the sort of people who buy their silver".
The Abstract Expressionists used to dismiss Rauschenberg as somebody who wasn't out to create a masterpiece every time.
The UK is shirking its responsibility to care for thousands of unaccompanied migrant children, dismissing them as "somebody else's problem", a report has concluded.
Clifford said he thought it was a "tragic" letter, but dismissed it as having been written by somebody who was disturbed.
(#11, man, age 29) There's a real confusion between being drunk and having a hypo…the signs are often similar…if you see somebody behaving like they're out of control, it's easy to dismiss them [as] somebody who lacks control.
Gingrich dismissed a name change as trivial; John Kline, the Minnesota Republican, said, "Somebody will think of a cute name".
He said New York had an edge because "every athlete can find somebody of their own culture" in the area, and he dismissed the legend, perpetuated by New Yorkers, that we are a surly and inhospitable lot.
However, a senior officer said that the police had erred with the suicide announcement, and he dismissed the pathologist's insinuations of foul play: "This is the fall of somebody who is annoyed, who is drunk.
"I don't think they were ever truly directed at Attorney General Cuomo, but rather somebody working in the attorney general's office," he said, but he dismissed the reports as hearsay.
