The phrase "a refusal to discuss" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating someone's unwillingness to engage in a conversation or dialogue about a particular topic.
Example: "The committee's decision was met with a refusal to discuss the underlying issues, leaving many questions unanswered."
Alternatives: "an unwillingness to engage" or "a denial to converse".
Mr. McQueen's particularity sometimes extends to a refusal to discuss any aspect of a new work.
Many family planning groups, knowing that women will not understand a refusal to discuss abortion, will decide to give up U.S. support.
For over a decade the only acceptable opinion was one in support of the policies of the rightist Likud party, accompanied by a refusal to discuss the underlying issue of the occupation and its impact on Israeli society.
Years of abstinence-only sex education, a refusal to discuss female desire as part of sex education in schools, inaccurate sex and relationship information that often reinforces the gender binary, and a fear-based approach to HIV education have further suppressed discussions of women's sexual agency in and out of school.
The violent events that dotted Chung's childhood were in part a result of a communal refusal to discuss and process emotional pain.
Listener's inquiries can be followed with an adamant refusal to discuss it further.
Culturally, there is an even greater silence around abortion, and an even greater refusal to discuss it except in terms of its terrible psychological toll on women.
That financial issue is already a bone of contention, as is Brussels' refusal to discuss a new free trade deal until after it is resolved.
Enraged at Poland's refusal to discuss a return of Danzig, a town taken from Germany at Versailles, Hitler attacked.
Microsoft's refusal to discuss a deal on these terms prompted Motorola to file lawsuits in the US and Europe last year, seeking to block several Microsoft products from sale on the basis that its rights had been infringed.
Moyes' refusal to discuss a new contract until the end of the season means his future at Goodison Park is uncertain and so is his side's fate in the Cup thanks to the former Manchester University student's late strike.
