Sentence examples for act of denial from inspiring English sources

Fishing is always an expression of hope; fishing in November is an act of denial.

From then until meltdown on 26 November 2003, the SDLP engaged in an incredible act of denial.

The word better describes Central American's experience of terror, terror that repeats itself with every act of denial.

There is perhaps no greater act of denial in modern life than sticking a plug into an electric outlet.

But it is an act of denial to think that he won only with them: there are not enough of them for that.

It's a common political device, this one, to deny you're going to do something and then proceed as if the act of denial is sufficient excuse for you then to go on and do it.

There is an occasional brave act of self-denial.

For it to disavow its regulatory lusts would be a prodigious act of self-denial.

It was quite a professional undertaking to make drama out of such a complete and painful act of self-denial.

Helmut Kohl, the chancellor who guided Germany to unification, was responsible for the last great act of self-denial, the surrender of the D-mark.

That choice always struck me as sadly joyless, one more act of self-denial in a life already filled with struggle.