I'd learned that between the third and fourth beer, euphoria took over, and suggestions normally dismissed became done deeds.
The cantatas Shostakovich wrote in the closing years of Stalin's rule are normally dismissed as music made to order, but the Capriccio recording suggests that there is more to them: real patriotism and, again, the undertow of grief.
And Republicans, including Mr. Rowland, have appeared willing to debate campaign finance measures they would normally dismiss outright.
In fact, Safina didn't win a tour match between May and August, losing to players she would normally dismiss easily.
I'd normally dismiss such fiddling as style over substance, but Blumenthal is one of those rare chefs who draws delicious flavour from flamboyant presentation.
The pleas for them to stay in Britain came from some strange quarters: joining the most senior Anglican and Catholic churchmen were the Conservative Party and the Daily Mail, which normally dismisses asylum-seekers as economic migrants in disguise.
The business of persuasion Reprints Related items Israel and Palestine: Getting worse and worseJul 6th 2006What Mr Margalit fails to mention is his almost supernatural ability to make people believe in things they might normally dismiss as ridiculous.
Without being unreasonably utopian then, we can say that, ideally, theater -- comic, tragic and all stops between -- makes war on the predictable, dissects what is ordinary and superficial, exposes the uncanny and invites us to experience what we normally dismiss.
Whereas rivals like Superstar and Star Academy mimic the content of Western talent contests like American Idol and The X Factor, the introduction of traditional poetry has brought the show a wider audience that includes many who might normally dismiss Ms Hilal's message.
Shortly after Trump spent a gruelling ninety minutes pretending to care about immigrants, the unemployed, and other people whom he normally dismisses as losers, aides noticed that he was turning from a bright orange to a slightly paler orange before crumpling to the ground in a giant heap.
Rather, for maximum behavioral success, injury prevention messages must shock and surprise parents into paying attention to something they would normally dismiss as unimportant.
