Sentence examples for great refusal from inspiring English sources

These were part of the new left's "great refusal" of American capitalism.

Still, it's not always clear what Marcuse meant by the Great Refusal — what one scholar referred to as "the scream".

At least one can say that Spartan worries about Arcadia were relevant to the "Great Refusal" of leadership in 479, which made possible the Athenian empire.

(Dante was not particularly kind to Celestine, either, referring to him as "he who out of cowardice made the great refusal").

Can an accumulation of "no"s have the makings of a political movement — what the Frankfurt School philosopher Herbert Marcuse called "the Great Refusal"?

"In a style both lyrical and lacerating, it reveals the impact of this great refusal both on the heroine herself and on those around her.

Culturally, there is an even greater silence around abortion, and an even greater refusal to discuss it except in terms of its terrible psychological toll on women.

Intervention-arm girls also reported greater mother daughter communication and closeness, reduced stress, greater refusal skills, and increased fruit intake.

ASH-P relative to AO-C was associated with greater improvements in most family process variables (perceptions of communication and parental disapproval of alcohol use and sexual behavior) as well as less DSH and greater refusal of sex to avoid a sexually transmitted infection.

As the response rate in the first four villages was lower than anticipated, more subjects were recruited in the remaining villages to obtain sufficient subjects overall and to allow for a greater refusal rate.

Results were very similar for refusers at both Waves 2 and 3. Longitudinal studies of the elderly may over estimate cognitive performance because of the greater refusal rate of those with poorer performance.