Anthony Doerr

In my students, I'm always dispelling the notion that characters come like a light bulb over the head in cartoons. For me, it's like a shapeless big lump of clay. You just build it into something, and then you step back and go, 'That's not right,' hack it apart, put out a new arm, and say, 'Maybe this will walk around and work.

American Writer

Stanley Kubrick

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car.

American Director

Camryn Manheim

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

American Actress

Brandon Stanton

Wherever I go, I just try to show normal life. If the work helps to dispel stereotypes, it's because I seek not to portray the extremities of a place, but the vast majority of people who are quite normal and are having normal life experiences.

American Photographer

Ted Dekker

It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

Indonesian Author

Ingrid Newkirk

We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.

British Activist

David O. McKay

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

American Clergyman

John Burroughs

In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.

American Author

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

French Philosopher

Franchesca Ramsey

In many ways, being yourself is dispelling stereotypes.

American Comedian

Dispel is often used to provide relief or clarity by removing undesirable emotions or beliefs.

Emotional Impact

'Dispel' isn't used for tangible items, but for intangible ones like rumors or fears.

Not Physical

To dispel doubts or ideas, one often needs evidence to prove them wrong.

Proof Required

Use 'dispel' when you're specifically aiming to correct a false belief or misinformation.

Addressing Misconceptions

'Dispel' can often be found in literary contexts, painting vivid pictures involving light or darkness.

Literary Imagery

Dispel is frequently used metaphorically to describe the action of making abstract things go away.

Metaphorical Expression

 So you have three options, pick any of the three. They're all great, I said. So the basic idea was these would be new school libraries for New York schools, and so the idea is that it's a new thing, a new idea that needs a new name. What I wanted to do was dispel the idea that these were musty old libraries,

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 and naturally predate on that. So that was important too. But at the end of the day, I mostly really hope that by showing sharks as something beautiful, as just beautiful animals, making pictures that would intrigue the reader and making them wanna know more might dispel some of that fear.

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 they're attacking from the rear when the sea lion is nowhere there and they keep turning through the head up and then the sea lion moves they just keep following it and the poor sea lions are being harassed i mean they really are aware of them look at him you know it dispels the

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 keep following you and the poor sea lions are being harassed i mean they really are aware of them look at him george you know it dispels the the myth of the you know the set of animals having a quiet sleep at night they're not it's torment it's absolute torment

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 Now, the sun in this poem, in Wallace Stevens' poem, seems so grave because the person in the poem is so afraid. The sun comes up in the morning through branches, dispels the dew, the eyes, on the grass, and defeats stars envisioned as armies.

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 costs are down not up reflecting some four hundred million dollars of avoided cost in pursuit of zero waste the first face of mount sustainability this has paid all the cost for the transformation of interface and this dispels a myth too

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 And as we were talking with them, a number of myths were dispelled about them with us. And one of the biggest myths was that these kids were cold and heartless and uncharacteristically bold in their violence.

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 often think of gin cos the thinker and my youthful optimism is renewed as I continue to work on my synchronized swimmers I'm reminded that these figures here working together dispel the myths

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 their lives to us and accept us as just another part of their world we call them the Sawtooth pack and we set out to capture their intimate behavior to dispel myths and show a side of wolves

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 First, he now has the protection of the Prudential insurance helmet, and his expression is changed into a smile. You know why? Because Prudential insurance dispels anxiety.