You don't have to think beyond "Patch Adams" or "Eyes Wide Shut" to question his credulity.
"I don't think it's an open-and-shut question".
It's not an open-and-shut question by any means".
The odd thing, looking back, is how often racial abuse was not treated as an open-or-shut question.
The actor shut down questions about the difficulties of discussing sexuality (Ronnie is openly gay in the film) from a local LGBT news organisation, and another concerning the notoriously troubled shoot for Alejandro González Iñárritu's forthcoming film The Revenant, in which Hardy co-stars with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Although they initially entertained some questions on the matter, Radebe eventually shut down questioning on it.
He shut down the question of which players, if any, had asked not to take a kick.
Instead, Europe has chosen the strategy laid out 90 years ago in a novel by Ring Lardner, in which a father had a ready answer for an unwanted question: " 'Shut up,' he explained".
"How does it feel," she asked him, "to know that you have just been sentenced to death by Ayatollah Khomeini?" It was a sunny Tuesday in London, but the question shut out the light.
"Just 10 years ago, you could basically shut off any question on anything by saying, 'That's an intelligence matter and we never discuss it,"' said Michael D. McCurry, a White House press secretary under Bill Clinton.
"I think that they're fighting demons -- it's kind of a full-time job," Beharie said, shutting down questions about a possible romantic storyline with Mison's time-traveling Ichabod Crane.
