| Some observers believe that kind of brushoff will end when the congressionally mandated ISG offers its recommendations some time after the elections. |
| Lately, a new generation — Nicole Eisenman, Keltie Ferris, Charline von Heyl, Amy Sillman, Nicola Tyson, Jackie Saccoccio — has been giving naysayers the brushoff with smart, daring, and loosely Expressionist paintings. |
| Now that Bushehr is almost done, Kiriyenko is the one doing the brushoff. |
| It was a ridiculous answer, a brushoff, and Brenner couldn't let it go. |
| She's too softhearted to give him the brushoff, so he's bunking at her place. |
| Agencies kept giving me the brushoff and I was shocked and delighted when Colours took me on. |
