| Both men are septuagenarians who have felt the pinch of ageism in a business that often dismisses extensive experience and talent as irrelevant. |
| Although Basilosaurus possessed a fluke and peduncle, Buchholtz dismisses these features because they are too short relative to body length. |
| Indeed, if he dismisses it with a disbelieving laugh, we expect to see the bad luck drop on him out of the blue. |
| Elvidge also dismisses the nightmare scenarios of films such as The Terminator in which machines come to dominate their masters. |
| But he dismisses criticism that the film glorifies violence and highlights the futility of life in the underworld. |
| This omission is, I suspect, tied to Naugle's less than satisfactory presentation of Wittgenstein, whom he dismisses as a relativist and fideist. |
