If someone announces that the moon is made of green cheese, the professional astronomer cannot be expected to climb down from his telescope and write a detailed refutation.

He is best known for having authored a detailed refutation of "the false doctrine of limited atonement," and several other theological treatises.

He provided a detailed public refutation of the Administration's new interpretation.

You could spend a year of your life preparing a detailed refutation that might succeed in convincing them that what they're talking about is nonsense.

Clement of Alexandria wrote a detailed refutation of the various groups who endorsed fornication as accepted Christian behavior.

In two 1957 papers, Bondi and (separately) Joseph Weber and John Archibald Wheeler used this bead argument to present detailed refutations of Rosen's argument.

Within minutes of our meeting, Mr. Braugher launches into a theory about how the Prince of Denmark should be played, complete with detailed refutations of several scholarly interpretations of the character.

Part five of the larger work is a detailed refutation of the Concise Treatise of Nilos Kabasilas, and consists of five books.

Geoffrey Bromiley has suggested that in the Defence, Cranmer becomes "so enmeshed in the detailed refutation of a false teaching that he cannot work out the implications of his positive statements."

"I realized it would be boring to write a detailed refutation of these people," he said.