He is the holographic representation of the failure of a country, our denial, our refusal to act and rise for each other and to take responsibility for what our government, corporations, military are doing across the world.
Angelina in particular was known for her charisma and rhetoric: "The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair".
Many have expressed scepticism or worse about climate change science or are part of organisations that push denial, reject the need to act and dismiss renewable energy sources.
Despite homophobic chanting at the highest level, the widely publicised lack of an out player and the fact that, according to Stonewall, 50 per cent of fans think that sport needs to do more to tackle LGBT discrimination, in some areas of the "beautiful" game, there's a culture of denial and a reticence to act.
While the majority refuses to act on the denial here by claiming that appellants failed to challenge it in the Ohio Supreme Court or in their appeal to this Court, the record convinces me that the matter has been properly raised for our consideration.
With the world still refusing to act against the denial of the most basic human rights to Gazan civilians, now threatened with famine, facing constant power cuts, sewage collapse and the increasing pollution of available drinking water, some explosion was inevitable.
But it is an act of denial to think that he won only with them: there are not enough of them for that.
It would have taken an act of willing denial to miss the fact that, in an age where the guitar hero has become something of a rarity, a thirty-one-year-old woman was shredding.
"For those in denial bearing witness to acts of remembrance and honouring reminds them non-aggressively of something that they are pushing away.
Still, even for a Nordic, it is a powerful act of self-denial to forego the pleasure (and, yes, the fame and attendant adulation) of recording your own songs, and give all your beautiful tunes to other people, who become famous instead.
