However, we've both seen people write off work because it feels impenetrably complex or technical.
Neil MacGregor, formerly director of the National Gallery, and now director of the British Museum, is full of praise for Sir Denis's astuteness in establishing the intrinsic worth of the school of 16th Century Italian Baroque paintings that had long been neglected, and has commended his ability "to find meaning in works of art we had written off, works we had thought were empty".
"This is about writing off working class children educationally," Reay says.
As I fall into a 30percentt federal and state bracket, the additional write-off works out to a savings of $600 -- not monumental moola, but likely enough to cover several sumptuous spreads of my favorite paella at a Zagat-recommended restaurant.
The Romany art show, in a similar vein, let skeptics write off the work as primitive or, worse, charming, while functioning as a sop to the national conscience.
This, together with his gargantuan output - he was working right up to his Aids-related death, aged 31, in 1990 - led to an overexposure that has caused some to write off his work as at best mere graphics, at worst tacky doodles.
Dickens is one of my favourite writers and it often frustrates me how many people write off his work having barely read it, resentful at having been dragged, unwilling, through Great Expectations at school, or on the strength of those rather off-putting drawings they sometimes reproduce alongside the text, or a film adaptation, both of which date in a way the novels do not.
"It is cynical to write off the work of so many dedicated FBI employees or the accomplishments of the bureau by suggesting that these efforts are failing, especially when they are not," Miller said.
Don't write off their work from these eras as "weird" or "not worth listening to", though, because it's exactly the opposite!
Yes, they're a world-famous band, but many people write off their work from more experimental eras without even listening to it.
People in our generation have a tendency to write off everybody who works at a major label as being some sort of bloodsucking vulture, but the crew selected for the panel were all pretty legit and erudite and seemingly not evil.
