Sentences with phrase «merely brushing them off»

This also helps online learners to appreciate the importance of concepts and ideas instead of merely brushing them off as a theoretical knowledge that has no correlation with their work duties or responsibilities.

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And by disbelief I do not mean some sort of brave rejection of the doctrine, some defiant demand flung at heaven for possession of one's own soul; I mean merely the impotence of an imagination that finds the very notion of sin incomprehensible, the conscience of a man who is sure that, whatever sin might be, it surely lies lightly upon a soul as decent as his own, and can be brushed off with a single casual stroke of a primly gloved hand; I mean an habitual insensibility to the illuminations and chastisements of beauty, a condition of being wholly at home in a world from which mystery and sin and glory have all been banished, and in which spiritual wretchedness has become material contentment.

Sometimes, moms - to - be can brush off labor signs as merely the end of pregnancy troubles.

Last month, a police officer in Ohio collapsed after merely brushing some fentanyl off his shirt.

Anxious to rescue her friends, Gracie volunteers to take the case — only to be brushed off as merely a pretty face.

Pitcock's complaint brushes off the accusations, claiming the conduct was merely a consensual kiss with an associate in September 2007.