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"There is this notion, one which I try to dispel, which is that people who hold strong antigay positions are always secretly gay."

Left Wing: When Gay Bashers Are Gay, Why Do People Just Mock and Turn Away? 2010

Nor clearest noon tide can that horrid pain dispel.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

It is astonishing how our prejudices change from youth to middle age, even without any remarkable interposition of fortune; I do not say dissipate, or even dispel, which is much more doubtful -- but they change.

Phoebe, Junior 1862

PETER GELB, GENERAL MANAGER, METROPOLITAN OPERA: In an effort to kind of dispel or break down this image that the Met is some sort of an elitist organization, we have launched a whole bunch of initiatives to connect the Met to a broader public.

CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2007 2007

Obviously now the White House anxious to kind of dispel the notion of any tensions.

CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2006 2006

But I think this goes just a long way to kind of dispel a lot of the accusations at Al Jazeera, that we're a tool of the Iraqi regime.

CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2003 2003

Was he trying to kind of dispel the theory that maybe this was an act of defense on the behalf of Nathaniel Brazill?

CNN Transcript May 9, 2001 2001

Abdallah, one of the holiest of men, whom God hath blessed with supernatural powers, such as dispel doubts and obscurity.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II Anonymous 1879

Rufus: And it's also I think, it's important to kind of dispel the myth that that's where you know being gay is

Pop Musicology 2010

I always took it to be a way to kind of dispel the magic that fun can produce, rewrite the narrative to a simple one where they were in charge.

Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2010