The first is to renounce high responsibilities; the second to deny oneself or someone else something; the third to abolish by an official proclamation.
The effect is a chilling reminder that to deny oneself an openly queer existence is to shroud oneself from the world.
To say that that doesn't make any sense is to deny oneself the pleasure that a close study of O'Reilly affords.
But to select one school over another simply because the former has a higher overall U.S. News ranking is to deny oneself the ability to find a school that is the best fit for each student.
It is a time of listening to Koranic verses in the mosque while going without Britney Spears at home, of denying oneself food and drink while taking in the good-natured ribbing from co-workers eating lunch on the job, of focusing on the spirit while running from job to class to community meeting.
I DON'T know if a distrust of ideas and feelings leads to a disaster in personal relationships, but anyone who wanted to argue that case might point to Amis as Exhibit A. At any rate, denying oneself the luxury of belief is a better recipe for literature than for happiness.
For one thing, I have been snobbishly adamant that cheap foundations mean denying oneself of what is truly the best -- a travesty.
In the words of the legendary kushti guru and former Olympian, Ganpatrao Andhalkar, to live in the old way is to perform "a kind of invisible tapasya," a reference to the Sanskrit concept of denying oneself pleasure to reach enlightenment.
An Aesthetic Realism defector named Michael Bluejay described the duties of group members to me thusly: being brainwashed out of any independent thought, being forced to marry inside the cult, denying oneself an education, converting from homosexuality (where applicable), spending large amounts of money on the cult, and, generally, being a giant prick to all nonmembers.
An Aesthetic Realism defector named Michael Bluejay described the duties of group members to me thusly: being brainwashed out of any independent thought, being forced to marry inside the cult, denying oneself an education, converting from homosexuality (where applicable), spending large amounts of money on the cult and, generally, being a giant prick to all nonmembers. .
An Aesthetic Realism defector named Michael Bluejay described the duties of group members to me thusly: being brainwashed out of any independent thought, being forced to marry inside the cult, denying oneself an education, converting from homosexuality (where applicable), spending large amounts of money on the cult, and, generally, being a giant prick to all nonmembers. .
