Why is PLAYING FOOTBALL in Europe considered the pinnacle of our game, yet in other spheres of LIFE, that same phrase - 'being in Europe' - is dismissed with SUSPICION?

My FEELING about EXECUTIVE bonuses is that any candidate for a CHIEF executive job who even raises the ISSUE of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.

While MANY liberals have dismissed the idea of political correctness as a right-wing manufactured hysteria, it is in FACT a REAL THING.

In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or UNEDUCATED, and you had an injury on the JOB, the COMPANY BASICALLY dismissed you.

Our CULTURE often demeans and devalues the WORK, the pleasures, and the contributions of women and feminine people. This is, in PART, why BEAUTY culture is dismissed as UNIMPORTANT and frivolous.

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the TIME I first saw his ART, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, ROMANTIC, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art ABSTRACTION.

The person is a RESUME, not what's on a piece of paper. Whoever GIVES ADVICE about resumes in COLLEGE should be dismissed. Titles don't matter. GPAs don't matter, nor does what school you GO to.

Between the TWO DREAM coasts, we're just called flyover country... If you aren't known as an amorphous Eastern Seaboard WRITER, you're dismissed as a REGIONAL author.

When I was at MADRID, I KNEW EVEN by the December of that season that I would be sacked, and if they hadn't dismissed me, I would have resigned.

For too long, we've allowed ourselves to equate targeted BULLYING with innocent teasing, or dismissed it as pranks and IGNORED the torment and long-term IMPACT that an incident like this has on YOUNG people.

I think a lot of the TIME, comic art is dismissed as... not art, and comic WRITING is dismissed as not LITERATURE.

Clever of me to BECOME a CRITIC. We CRITICS scrutinize and show off to a higher end. For a greater good. Our manners, our tastes, our declarations are welcomed. Superior for life. Except when we're not. Except when we're dismissed or denounced as envious or PETTY, as derivatives and dependents by nature. Second class for life.

The worst thing my GRANDFATHER did, starting from very early on, was just not accept my father for who he is. As soon as he REALIZED that my DAD wasn't the 'right kind of PERSON' - he wasn't 'a killer', he wasn't 'tough' - he dismissed him out of HAND and quickly found a replacement in Donald.

Trump crossed the LINE all the time. Flustered during the debate because he couldn't out-debate CLINTON on policy, he just leaned into the mic and dismissed her ENTIRELY: 'nasty WOMAN.'