brushes aside

Simon dismisses the president’s national security adviser, Tom Donilon, as “a former lawyer for the mortgage giant Fannie Mae” and brushes aside another senior aide, Ben Rhodes, as “an aspiring novelist.”

It’s so short on specifics that everyone in his caucus could sign on, and it brushes aside anything that might hurt a Republican House candidate.

Soon afterwards he brushes aside the constitution to rule by decree.

This movie brushes aside a lot of things — the most shocking thing about it is how soggily noncommittal it is.

She said in the lawsuit the university continues to protect its football team and brushes aside women who report assaults by players, assertions that run counter to the chief’s comments about investigations on the recording.