That possibility was dispelled within 64 seconds of kick-off.
Any feeling of complacency Northampton might have had was dispelled within 20 seconds of the restart.
But any Welling hopes that their opponents may be distracted by events at home were immediately dispelled within 30 seconds, when Jabo Ibehre picked out Antony Sweeney and he headed just wide.
Initial fears that the Joshua Light Show might amount to little more than a jazzed-up screensaver are dispelled within five minutes, too, once they abandon cliched kaleidoscopes for blinking, sinister flashes and pellucid, swirling oils.
Any fears that familiarity might have diluted the anarchic wonderment are dispelled within seconds of Woden, Thunor and Frigg cartwheeling into a forest clearing, ducking the CGI thunderbolts and whooshy superhero graphics and bellowing "Weekdays… ASSEMBLE!" amid much cape flapping and alpha-Norse beard rearrangement.
Some people catch the lesser EBV virus and dispel it within two to four weeks.
(That has not dispelled suspicions within China itself, however, about the safety of Chinese vaccines).
Seeking to dispel reports of divisions within the administration, the White House spokesman, Ari Fleischer, insisted that Mr. Tenet's letter did not undercut the White House's position.
In her speech to Parliament, Mrs. Merkel tried to dispel speculation that closer cooperation within the euro zone would mean greater division within the European Union, evoking the spirit of German leaders past, from Konrad Adenauer to Helmut Kohl.
What it now sees, it certainly always possessed, but as lying away in the dark, not as acting within it: to dispel the darkness, and thus come to knowledge of its inner content, it must thrust towards the light.
