The phrase "act of rejection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the process or instance of rejecting something or someone, often in formal or legal contexts.
Example: "The committee's act of rejection was based on the proposal's lack of sufficient evidence."
Alternatives: "instance of refusal" or "decision to decline".
Only in retrospect will the meaning of this inexplicable act of rejection become apparent.
As an adult, he lived in physical and psychic exile from Asheville, North Carolina, where he grew up, and his writing is both obsessed with the particularities of that past and an aggressive act of rejection.
The 15-year-old's troubled tale begins when her father commits the ultimate act of rejection by forcing his daughter to leave her narcissistic Manhattan bubble and live for an indefinite spell in the English countryside with a family she has never met so he can have some space to enjoy his new wife.
The agreement stops, however, when contemporary philosophers explain the act of rejection on the model of speech acts that constitute a disagreement with other persons.
In other words, she was either avoiding an act of rejection, or she was using him for his brain.
And yes, choosing not to vote can be read as a political act, but it is an act of rejection, not engagement, and thus a failure of democracy.
It's hard to meditate on potential futures when we are still transitioning out of a period that has been culturally obsessed with defining the past through acts of rejection or fetishization.
He suggested that, fundamentally, the mind can refer to objects by perception and ideation, including sensing and imagining; by judgment, including acts of acknowledgment, rejection, and recall; and by loving or hating, which take into account desires, intentions, wishes, and feelings.
It is easy to see how declaring that one did not believe in God would be construed as an act of infidelity, a rejection of God's law and a betrayal of a community which relied for its well-being on a solidarity of trust and commitment threatened by the temptation to seek out other gods.
Catz et al. (2012) also found that partners' perceptions that being released from prison increases sexual desirability, partners' negative condom attitudes, depression, strong desires for sex and/or substance use and HIV disclosure-related fears of rejection act as barriers to risk reduction after release from prison.
It had not been an act of possession — more one of rejection.
