She believed that authority could be laughed away, a powerful notion for a provocateur to take through life.
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The corporate office is a bar, and Kenny is laughed away when he applies to a bank for funding.
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In "The Room," Mr. Wiseau comes across as somewhat menacing, with an underlying intensity that can't be entirely laughed away.
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After being laughed away by other attorneys and the sheriff's office, Anderson was appreciative to find someone who would fight for Chucky.
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Yet alternative justice programs are spreading, reformers have won election in some cities as district attorneys, and prison abolition is no longer laughed away.
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Yet alternative justice programs are spreading, reformers have won election in some cities as district attorneys, and prison abolition is no longer laughed away.
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I'd been corresponding with Zarzyski for several months, hoping to scratch beneath the surface of a genre so easily dismissed as doggerel and so often laughed away.
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"When I appeared on Pauw [a Dutch late night news show] in 2011, I was seen as the one who was proposing something so outlandish that it had to be laughed away," Gario says.
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Bach's enthusiasm for the name Savage Animal became a popular subject of parody over the internet, with websites like YTMND and YouTube having made videos referencing that particular instance. The "Savage Animal" mania has gone as far as for Bach to be listed as a member of "Savage Animal" instead of "Damnocracy", intentionally or not, on some websites. One initially proposed name was "Celebutard", a name suggested by Bach prior to "Savage Animal". This name was quickly laughed away.
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Geo-fencing of his mobile phone and number revealed that his last location before being kidnapped was at G-10/4 area of Islamabad. On October 27, his mobile phone was switched on at a location in Sarai Alamgir, then switched off again, after which there was no trace of his mobile phone or SIM card. The Pakistani Prime Minister's spokesman Iftikhar Durrani, in an interview with Voice of America on October 28, laughed away Tahir's kidnapping report, and stated that Tahir was not abducted but was safe in Peshawar; Iftikhar Durrani's statement later turned out to be wrong.
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Vaithalingam was very close to his wife and largely left society life for a spiritual undertaking and much-subdued persona following her passing. Vaithalingam remained close friends with Junius Richard Jayewardene up until his death in 1993. As per an anecdote by Justice Naharaja, when the former president came to visit Vaithalingam while he was on his deathbed, Vaithalingam in a sour state joked about the workings of society by telling Jayewardene that though he had time and again bested him in every academic endeavor throughout their academic career, he had only become a Supreme Court Judge whilst it was Jayewardene that had become President - questioning the workings of society. The statement was quickly laughed away.
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Stargate: Continuum The United States Air Force then stored the device in various locations —including Washington, DC (Episode "1969")—before installing it at its location of the film and series. The Stargate was studied in the 1940s as a potential weapon and was later mothballed."The Torment of Tantalus" As the Stargate film quickly skips to the "present day" (1994), unsuccessful archaeologist Daniel Jackson is giving a lecture about his outlandish theories that the Great Pyramid of Giza was not built by the pharaoh Khufu. After he is laughed away, an aged Catherine Langford meets with him and recruits his egyptological talent, taking him to a top-secret military base at Cheyenne Mountain, where he is instructed to decipher the unique Egyptian hieroglyphs present on a set of cover-stones.
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