But a work dismissed as obscure in 1980 now seems politically prophetic.
Djokovic was in the locker room after only about 90 minutes of work, dismissing Marcel Granollers in three uncompetitive sets.
Yet members of the panel stand by their work, dismissing the complaints as a predictable occupational risk.
When Alfred Bardey got back to Aden, bursting with his discovery, he found to his dismay that the former wunderkind refused to talk about his work, dismissing it as "absurd, ridiculous, disgusting".
Women talked about having their work dismissed and ignored, having designs for non-sexualised female characters rejected, their clothing and appearance being used to dismiss them on gender grounds, and, at the more extreme end, sexual harassment at conferences.
Seeing no contradiction between patriotism and radical politics, throughout the nineteen-thirties Davis all but set aside studio work, dismissing leftist demands for proletarian themes in art, to engage in labor-organizing activism.
Authors of ambitious proposals often find their work dismissed by reviewers who use that very word--ambitious--as a criticism, as Science's Jeffrey Mervis observed in a news article late in 2004 (institutional or Science subscription required for access).
Kepler and Roeslin engaged in a series of published attacks and counter-attacks, while physician Philip Feselius published a work dismissing astrology altogether (and Roeslin's work in particular).
He appears to give all credit to Trindl for his production work, dismissing the possibility of the Yousafs producing while also diminishing their contributions as co-writers, let alone their live performance of those songs. .
Orlando's literary aspirations are finally consummated in the 20th century, as poetic works dismissed hundreds of years earlier find critical acclaim.
