Just as Krauthammer used moral obtuseness as the direct opposite of today's phrase under study, Bennett used moral equivalence scornfully, dismissing the term as an obfuscator of clarity.
In 1969, as chief deputy district attorney, he won a conviction in the Sirhan case for murder in the first degree, scornfully dismissing the defense's contention that Mr. Sirhan, who is still in prison, had been psychologically unstable and thus incapable of premeditating the June 1968 shooting of Senator Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
"The reason I do this work I do is that I really care about politics and people and public policy," he said in one of several interviews, scornfully dismissing questions about whether his global AIDS work is a form of redemption for what he failed to accomplish on the issue as president, or for the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
On Friday and Saturday, the federal authorities scornfully dismissed Croatian appeals for a truce.
The accusations of racial preference in the selection for these Euros have been scornfully dismissed.
The BBC scornfully dismissed this convoluted arrangement: and it became clear that ITV had miscalculated.
To no avail: the top civil servant in the defence ministry scornfully dismissed the court's ruling.
And when he discovers that Sugar can talk arty with the best of them – she scornfully dismisses Ruskin as a "major minor" in verse – he's lost.
In 1880, Ibsen is first performed in English – the play Pillars of Society is scornfully dismissed, as are all his subsequent plays, but he is unstoppable.
So when people talk about bubbles, you should listen carefully and evaluate their claims — not scornfully dismiss them, which was the way many self-proclaimed experts reacted to warnings about housing.
It is, therefore, churlish of McVeigh to scornfully dismiss - as crazy paranoid nuts - the legions of conspiracy theorists who believe that the truth of the Oklahoma City bombing has yet to be officially recognised.
