Disabusing people of this fallacy is part of the work.
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Rather than disabusing my mother, I colluded in a fantasy that comforted.
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Bloom enjoys wearing makeup, dressing in drag, and generally disabusing the notions of traditional gender presentation.
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The glut has finally registered with market participants, disabusing them of the notion that the market was nearing balance.
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She opens her book by disabusing anyone who ascribes to that fantasy, while earning the trust of those who don't.
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"Progress is not inevitable," he warned, disabusing those conservative critics who accuse him of holding a Pollyanna-ish view of history.
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Rather, disabusing Cairo of the notion that assistance is an entitlement might help to restore some leverage to extract concessions from Cairo.
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As always, Trump is a clarifying figure: in this case, disabusing us of the myth of the American military as non-ideological svengalis.
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When asked to explain the false schedule, Mr. Gokcek said disabusing the Western media of "some prejudices against us" was a worthy task.
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In the end, Olivia lets that guy she was torturing go, but not before disabusing him of the notion that her dad misses her.
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We know she acts as a kind of mentor to Poe Dameron in the film — and apparently she's not immediately disabusing Dameron of his mistrust.
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Tesla stresses that during the buying process, its sales team demonstrates the proper use of the Autopilot, disabusing buyers of the notion that it functions anything like a self-driving car.
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Organizers seem intent on disabusing anyone of the notion that ongoing hateful anti-immigrant sentiment and violent debates about border security are simply policy differences about law and order, not expressions of racism.
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"If we're going to really act on these deaths by suicide, that's one of the most important ways we can act on it: disabusing parents of the notion that this couldn't be your kid," said Farrell-Kirk.
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After talking about that first, "it's a lot easier to have a conversation about the science and scale of the climate threat after disabusing the notion that all emission-reducing policies violate a conservative worldview," Bozmoski said.
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The testimony of key administration or former administration officials like Mick Mulvaney and John Bolton may be the only remaining hope Democrats have for disabusing Republican senators of their loyalty to Donald Trump before the vote on conviction.
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I could tell you how I have spent an inordinate amount of time and energy, throughout my life, educating people about Haiti and disabusing them of the damaging, incorrect notions they have about the country of my parents' birth.
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There is no one better suited to disabusing Biden of his notion that Republicans will have an "epiphany" and become a peaceful and collaborative party than the man who famously fell prey to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
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Anyone who thinks that anchovies (alici) taste fishy, or that calamari is palatable only if it's fried, or that the only worthwhile fish on an Italian menu is sea bass (branzino), needs to feast on Adriatic cuisine for a proper disabusing.
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We often need to begin by disabusing our education grad students of such incapacious ways of thinking about curriculum.
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Dionysus sheds his Heracles disguise, and Pluto welcomes the god with open arms, disabusing him of the misconception that Hades is a dangerous place. Dionysus tells Pluto of his plan to bring Shaw back to earth, and Pluto reveals that all the dead playwrights are banqueting at his palace at that very moment. As Pluto and Dionysus discuss the dire situation on Earth, the Greek Chorus offers ironic commentary to the audience: though serious matters are being weighed onstage, there is no cause for alarm. Following the banquet, Dionysus bursts out of the palace to proclaim the entrance of George Bernard Shaw and his loyal passel of Shavians.
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This leading American newspaper-man was of central importance to Grant Duff for disabusing her of the anti-Versailles Treaty assumptions she had learned at Oxford and from von Trott. Mowrer, who predicted World War II from 1933 and was labelled "a sworn and proven enemy" by the Nazi Press Edgar Ansel Mowrer: Triumph and Turmoil: A Personal History of our Time. New York: Weybright and Talley, 1968,225 gave further urgency and impetus to Grant Duff, and can be credited for the increasing antagonism she developed against the complacency displayed by von Trott in his relationships to noted "appeasers" of the 1930s. In January 1935 she found employment as a correspondent for The Observer covering the Saar plebiscite in January 1935, her copy providing that newspaper's successive front-page coverage.
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He subsequently became a Prize Fellow of All Souls. His Finals examiner at Oxford, after giving him eight alphas, wrote: "He wrote as though it were all beneath him; he wrote as though it were all such a waste of his time.""The Fatal Englishman" Sebastian Faulks, page 305 Wolfenden was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) before becoming the Daily Telegraph foreign correspondent in Moscow where he indulged in his twin passions for sex and alcohol and was eventually compromised by the KGB. He struck up friendships with Guy Burgess, the British defector, and Martina Browne, the nanny employed by Ruari and Janet Chisholm, who were working for SIS and were instrumental in the defection of Oleg Penkovsky — a colonel in Soviet military intelligence — who was responsible for disabusing the Kennedy administration of the myth that the 'missile gap' was in the Soviet's favour.
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452–3) made no concessions and reinforced the respect in which he was held by several Edinburgh mathematicians and natural philosophers, including John Playfair, Lord Webb Seymour, and Henry Lord Brougham, all of whom visited him in Sedbergh. By comparison with Four Propositions his other mathematical publications were slight. The most important of them was a series of rather combative letters signed ‘Wadson’ and published in Charles Hutton's Miscellanea Mathematica, in which he criticized a paper by Charles Wildbore on the velocity of water emerging from vessels in motion (this exchange is dated to 1773 and 1774; ; the parts of Miscellanea Mathematica were gathered in a volume with title=page year, 1775). An earlier exchange, in which Dawson took the side of Thomas Simpson against William Emerson, by offering an independent analytical demonstration of the existence of an error in Newton's treatment of precession, passed off less agreeably, with Emerson disabusing Dawson as roundly as he had Simpson, according to the report in Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick.
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