1.   Critics have dismissed his visit to a shelter for the homeless as an obvious piece of electioneering.

2.   Critics have dismissed his work as unimportant.

3.   Critics have dismissed his plan as mere fancy.

4.   Critics dismissed his work as melodrama.

5.   Critics dismiss them as devoid of social message.

6.   And many critics dismiss her as a too-good-to-be-true, rose-colored joke.

7.   Bell Campaign organizers recall the early days of MADD, when drinking and driving was routinely excused and critics dismissed MADD as a simplistic fly-by-night group of overwrought moms.

8.   But American critics dismiss the conservation claim as a cynical ploy.

9.   But much of the Paris theater world rose to his defense, while leftist critics harshly dismissed Miquel as a political appointee named to restore orthodoxy.

10.   Chabrol once co-wrote a book about Alfred Hitchcock, who greatly influenced his style, and hostile critics often dismiss him as a mere imitator of the master.