dismissal

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.

The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.

Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.