Sentence examples for element of denial from inspiring English sources

There is an element of denial in Sampras's reasoning.

Certainly there was a large element of denial, rationalization and hypocrisy in Blunt's betrayal of his country.

Is this element of denial – in many Hollywood films in particular – the reason so many fiction writers are nervous about the dynamics, or even existence, of story structure?

People booze it up more wantonly on television than ever before, but there is an element of denial in even the most extreme depictions.

I knew of every off-licence within five miles of every racecourse and they were like pit stops for me.' There still seemed an element of denial when he went on: 'I wouldn't class myself as an alcoholic, a serious social drinker, perhaps.' But there has never been denying his talent in the saddle, a talent that helped him evolve into the complete jockey.

"This could end up, if it goes wrong not just with the end of the euro but the end of the European Union," he said, adding that there was "still an element of denial in Europe and still no recognition that there will have to be a restructuring beyond Greece".

She found something saintly and crazed in his undertaking, an element of self-denial, an element of penance.... Or he was a man escaping his past.... Was he at the movies to see a movie, she said, or maybe more narrowly, more essentially, simply to be at the movies?

All the major world religions have an element of self-denial at their core.

So he has emphasized as well an element of self-denial that Weisz's Lipstadt is forced to contend with, and that has been all to the good.

Pietersen's 73 from 188 balls displayed elements of self-denial, rarely seen, but still it did not seem like enough.

These were all a ritual of grief, and a purgative one, even if there was an element of fierce denial in the confusion.