Sentence examples for getting past denial from inspiring English sources

If the New York Fed is getting past denial, we are making progress.

Every rehabilitation program I've been in says the same thing: Getting past the denial is half the battle.

Between the Chap report, a National Academy of Sciences report looking at phthalates as a class and what he calls "the tidal wave of research that's been coming out fast and furious" in the past year or so, he said, "we're getting past the phase of complete denial from the industry – they can no longer claim that there's no risk at all with phthalates".

Directors simply have to get past their denial.

The Republicans need to get past the denial and isolation stage and move on, hopefully to bargaining and acceptance.

U.S. Trust is working the victimhood angle, beginning a few months ago with an ad headlined "Admit it, you're rich," in which a pensive man protests, "But I don't feel rich!" To get past the denial, the ad said to "get out all the brokerage account statements you've stuffed into that old file and start adding them up".

But we're getting past it.

Sadly, there's no getting past that.

(Dayton 2003) All too often we minimize our hurt in an attempt to get past it, but denial and minimization don't help us to understand what we really feel and make intelligent decisions about what to do with our own authentic responses.

Conservatives hosts are struggling to get past the anger and denial stages of the grief imposed on them by the Tucson shootings, as they continue to be shocked by the hypocrisy of the "hate-filled" left.

The director of The Day After, Nicholas Meyer, had been attracted by the very "banality" of the screenplay because he felt it could thus get past the almost automatic denial otherwise aroused by the gruesome subject.