Sentences with phrase «dismissed as a fantasy»

This is not something that we are able to study, so it is dismissed as a fantasy by modern scientists.

Why do the impossible feats of miracles or prayer remain feasible when all the other tall tales are dismissed as fantasy?

Such stories have been dismissed as fantasy.

But their reports were later dismissed as fantasies.

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Instantly dismissing another's belief system as «fantasy» is much closer to discrimination than 90 % of what I have seen here.

Deniers, as both Lipstadt and Vidal - Naquet show, seem to have an endless supply of polemical tricks and dodges: they simply discount Jewish testimony out of hand as lie or fantasy; inculpatory testimony from the Nazis themselves is said to have been coerced by the triumphant Allies; documents confirming such testimony are said to be forgeries; Nazi statements and memoranda about the Final Solution are taken at face value if they are euphemistically phrased, but are interpreted as hyperbolic or figurative if they are blunt and explicit; photographs and films of executions are dismissed as fakes.

BARCELONA: Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde has dismissed reports suggesting Neymar could leave Paris Saint - Germain and return to the Catalan giant as «fantasy».

Fortunately there's no tailgunner aka rolf to dismiss your meticulous work as fantasy Keep up the good work.

Juventus general manager Giuseppe Marotta has dismissed a move for former Liverpool forward Mario Balotelli as a «fantasy story».

When it comes to imaginary friends, some parents encourage a child's fantasy, while others dismiss it as nonsense.

Most voters dismissed the AES as a Bennite fantasy and reached instead for the free - market remedy proposed by Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has dismissed reports Jeremy Corbyn's Labour are planning to raise taxes as «absolute fantasy coming out of Tory HQ».

Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon addresses the Scottish parliament on Thursday, dismissing the idea of a Labour victory in the upcoming general election as fantasy.

But for decades they've been central to science fiction, fantasy and horror, which the literati dismiss as genre fiction, and so beneath contempt.

It would be easy to dismiss Haldane's essay as the ramblings of an ideologue, to be compared with more recent fantasies from the pens of scientists who see futures twisted to fit their own blinkered and rather inhumane outlook.

So skeptics, who often admit the loveliness of the math, have long dismissed string theory as an untestable fantasy.

That raises an intriguing question: Is there truth after all in the many stories from many lands of other humans, extralarge or extrasmall, living in the mountains or the forests, which have been dismissed as myths and fantasies?

The idea that animals can navigate using their own internal compass is so startling it was once dismissed as pure fantasy.

Unfortunately, due to my rigorous undergrad and graduate studies, career choice, and poor health that started my freshman year in college, I dismissed this dream as a distant fantasy.

As a result, I dismissed red flags and was prone to projecting a desired fantasy image on to him, which was, as I would always discover, not at all based in realitAs a result, I dismissed red flags and was prone to projecting a desired fantasy image on to him, which was, as I would always discover, not at all based in realitas I would always discover, not at all based in reality.

Back in New York, Ben expresses desire to continue the relationship, which Allyson dismisses as a one time experiment with an older man, and crossing «the Daddy» fantasy off her «list».

At first, Sole dismisses these sightings as fantasy, but when she returns to Madrid, Sole is shocked to discover the ghost of Irene has followed her home, intent on healing old wounds with her daughters.

(Interestingly, in what could also be known as «The Year of Stephen King,» the other film version of his work, The Dark Tower, a fantasy, was widely dismissed.)

It's easy to dismiss cars like the Agera RS as elements of obscene fantasy, machines that exist entirely in the theoretical, their capabilities relegated to spreadsheets and simulations.

Nell, like her great - aunt Gert, possesses psychic gifts, which her grandfather scoffingly dismisses as «flights of fantasy.»

But before you dismiss my tale as a gain - inspired fantasy of a woman seeking brief, cheap fame, let me say something.

But before you dismiss my tale as a gain - inspired fantasy...

I am presently working on a children's faerytale fantasy with deep spiritual teachings woven into the adventures of the hero, which has been summarily dismissed by all UK agents to whom I have submitted it (who, as one chidren's author told me, «Have not the slightest spiritual inclination unless it has a dollar sign in front of it.»)

So it's hard to just dismiss venture capitalist Tim Draper and his latest fantasy of subdividing California into three smaller states, even as the know - it - alls of government and politics scoff at...

At the time these works were dismissed by most as pornographic fantasies of an impotent old man or the slapdash works of an artist who was past his prime.

Hybrid monsters, giant eggs, spectral white horses, Heathcliffian heroes, everything filtered through a rainbow haze, Carrington's fantasies — once dismissed as the indulgence of a fairytale sentimentalist — can now be accepted as multicultural cross-association.

[81][82] However, the scientist who invented one of the modern pigments dismissed the possibility that Pollock used this paint as being «unlikely to the point of fantasy.»

He dismisses nuclear power as the fantasy of control and command states stuck in the 50s.

While you may be tempted to dismiss these glimpses into extraordinary lives of incredible individuals as fantasy best left to the kiddos, we think the genre may have something to offer career minded folks grounded in the real world, as well.