These have been widely dismissed by fans of the original books however.

Others on both sides of the research community have widely dismissed her claims.

The first issue has been widely dismissed by many in the power industry.

By the end of his first four months in office, he was being widely dismissed as an inept and rudderless leader.

The story was widely dismissed in the West as "nuts".

Some early studies indicated what was really happening, but were widely dismissed.

At first his effort was widely dismissed as a lost cause.

It was not long ago that Surrealism was widely dismissed.

The idea of asking people to pay for something not to take place was widely dismissed by national treasuries as holding the world to ransom.

In the 1960s and 1970s it was widely dismissed by academics.