Sentence examples for as a negation from inspiring English sources

An architectural aesthetic long regarded as a negation of self is revealed to be the crystallized expression of a path toward self-discovery.

I believe that laïcité has all too often been misconstrued as a negation of faiths, leading to the integration problems France faces today.

Silvan Shalom, Israel's foreign minister, said that this was meant as a negation of the "right of return" claimed by the Palestinian refugees.

Sunyata, in Buddhist philosophy, the voidness that constitutes ultimate reality; sunyata is seen not as a negation of existence but rather as the undifferentiation out of which all apparent entities, distinctions, and dualities arise.

The APRM's first Report into South Africa, published while Mbeki was at Davos, says that because of "creeping corruption" and conflicts of interest proliferating in public life, South Africans "feel betrayed, regarding corruption as a negation of democratic gains after a long period of struggle".

If he had announced he was becoming a celibate Buddhist monk, "they'd say, 'Oh, that's really cool,' " he said, "but if I told them I was becoming a Catholic priest, they'd say, 'What are you, crazy?' " "I think it's simply understood as a negation of something," he said.

As opposed to a negation that implies something else, a non-implicative negation is simply an absence, such as a lack of true existence.

Insofar as "one" is a negation of "not two," "not one" then brings the Zen practitioner back to the everyday "life-world," the world of multiplicity that is ordinarily constructed either-or ego-logically and dualistically.

"Much of what passes as Christianity is a negation of the Sermon on the Mount," Gandhi said in a famous lecture to the YMCA in Ceylon in 1927.

The double negation referred to earlier whereby the individual is negated by the group aspect of self, and the group aspect is in turn negated by the individual aspect, is not to be taken as a complete negation that obliterates that which is negated.

Maryam's growing authority as a character involves a negation of Abbas's narrative fluency ("She says our children are here, in a strange place, and all we have given them are bewildering stories about who we are. She thinks it makes them unsure and afraid about themselves").