Sentence examples for conscious rejection from inspiring English sources

"A part of his journey was a conscious rejection of visual memory," says Middleton.

There was a conscious rejection of Gothic forms in favour of the ideological appeal of Rome.

But it's not a conscious rejection of "being a good girl".

The first show of New York Fashion Week was a conscious rejection of sneaker style, and an exercise in nostalgia.

I admired them for their take-no-prisoners attitude and their conscious rejection of all codified styles and modes.

Promiscuity as a conscious rejection of the values of the nuclear family is increasingly replaced by "a responsibility for the self that requires a responsibility for others".

Still, for all its self-conscious rejection of the Bush era, the document reflects elements of continuity.

Writers disagree how best to define and classify atheism, contesting what supernatural entities it applies to, whether it is an assertion in its own right or merely the absence of one, and whether it requires a conscious, explicit rejection.

Some study Chinese -- once scorned by a society intent on Westernizing -- as a conscious gesture of rejection of the United States.

Begun out of a conscious and explicit rejection of the inevitable compromises of mainstream environmental groups, Earth First! championed the use of direct action and sabotage (nicknamed "monkey wrenching") to halt environmental destruction at its source.

Avant-garde intellectuals they're just like us! Acker moves on to the juicy stuff—"What do you like best sexually?", "What turns you on in women when you're in bed with one?", "How to give the best blowjobs?"—and then ends this message (after a brief explainer on Blanchot) with a self-conscious shield against rejection, also very familiar: "You'll probably hate me after all these questions anyway".