Sentence examples for occasionally dismissed from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lang, who is not a regular gambler but enjoys betting occasionally, dismissed moral arguments against casinos.

Mr. Joel is occasionally dismissed as inauthentic, as more of a Tin Pan Alley jinglemeister than a rock musician.

He is conventionally praised, and occasionally dismissed, as the last English romantic, a pure painter in the mould of Constable and Turner, an artist who feels.

Perhaps that is because she has been occasionally dismissed as only a doubles player, part of a top tandem with Lisa Raymond that won 22 titles, including the 2005 United States Open and the 2006 French Open.

The legislation represents a change for the Cuban American National Foundation, the anti-Castro lobby, which for two decades focused on maintaining economic pressure against Castro and occasionally dismissed internal dissidents as his pawns.

Though Gass was revered by many, he was also seen as a contrarian, and occasionally dismissed as such, regarded as the sort of person who will overstate things to make a point.

A judge may occasionally dismiss charges due to lack of evidence, but generally speaking, the decision to charge is the prosecutor's.

It is the main reason that he has occasionally been dismissed as a febrile modern version of Cotton Mather.

In Nietzsche's case, the confession and memoir are out in the open, so much so that his philoso phy has occasionally been dismissed, the way an intimate friend once put it, as "nothing other than a brilliant exercise in self-presentation and self-revelation".

In an occasionally mocking tone, Kessler dismissed the government's argument that an open hearing would jeopardise national security by risking the disclosure of classified information.

The BBC's Audience Research Report concluded, "A little more complex than some Doctor Who adventures, perhaps, and with underlying questions of conscience, the serial had been 'different' it was occasionally felt and, although dismissed in some quarters as far-fetched, long drawn-out, confused and/or predictable, had provided acceptable escapist entertainment for the majority".