Nevertheless, her mother dismissively described her work as "carnival stuff," apparently because Sabrina associated video games with arcades, arcades with amusement parks, and amusement parks with carnivals.

She dreads his demand that they adopt what she dismissively describes as a "Darby & Joan" existence.

American commentators began using "chattering class" routinely in the 1990's to describe dismissively critics in both parties.

After Oxford, Wood spent two seasons (1954-56) at the Old Vic, providing it with what he dismissively described as "the cheapest way of getting a Shakespearean costume on stage".

Father and son attended a performance of Guglielmi's Ruggiero, which Wolfgang described dismissively in a letter to Nannerl.

Mr. Gephardt must hope that few share the views of Paul Hogan of West Des Moines, a retired office manager for an insurance company, who dismissively described Mr. Gephardt to a reporter Thursday as "yesterday's news."

Similarly, in the first episode of the 1970 Doctor Who serial Spearhead from Space, Liz Shaw dismissively describes UNIT's work as investigating "little blue men with three heads".

He dismissively described how this man had 'come in, taken the material provided, and then had written a childish and critical book on the police, out of which he got a Ph.D.'

Nobody in this era of what Ted Koppel, the former "Nightline" host, describes dismissively as "boutique journalism" has the kind of mass audience and unconditional trust Walter Cronkite held when he shook the nation by declaring the Vietnam War unwinnable.