Sentence examples for conscious repudiation from inspiring English sources

Pater's vision of the Renaissance is a conscious repudiation of Ruskin's.

Z'Isle is a conscious repudiation of that stereotype.

It should be noted that this descriptive style of prose is positioned in direct opposition to the minimalism favored by many Moderns such as Bret Easton Ellis and Raymond Carver, and their legions of acolytes; this is not accidental, but a conscious repudiation of the ascendant literary mores.

But when it came to the big oils he chose to stylize them, as if in self-conscious repudiation of the classical tradition.

The growing pervasiveness of Islamophobia among Europeans, precipitated by the rise of violent extremists of all colorations and the seemingly endless bloodshed between Muslim communities and against Westerners, which has produced a conscious and unconscious repudiation of anything related to Muslims in general.

Mr. Harrison began his career as a votary of Ives and Ruggles; but, as we heard in the late works of his that were played at the festival, he made a conscious detour, amounting to a repudiation, from the path of "affirmative dissonance".

Yet Brennan seemed conscious that upheaval, what Henry James called New York's "perpetual repudiation of the past," was part of the city's excitement.

Every conscious decision to enhance human life—every attempt to rise above the animals—entails the subduing of nature and the repudiation of this environmentalist garbage that is espoused in this article.

The repudiation infuriated David.

3. Repudiation of Causal Theories.

It is a repudiation of his past.