Sentence examples for if denial from inspiring English sources

If it's true, as Elisabeth Kübler-Ross argued in On Death and Dying, that "if denial is no longer possible, we can attempt to master death by challenging it", then Doughty is indeed a passionate challenger.

If denial is a river, it runs through doomed societies.

If denial of Leibniz equivalence is a blunder so egregious that no competent mathematician would make it, then our standards for competence have become unattainably high, for they must exclude David Hilbert in 1915 at the height of his powers.

Some egalitarians might hold that equal free speech rights or democratic rights for all should be upheld even if denial of free speech or voting rights in particular circumstances would lead to the greatest total of utility or happiness.

Even planetary dangers such as climate change are either denied or ignored, as if denial or ignorance will keep seas and temperatures from rising.

Chrysippus adopted a much stricter view regarding conditional propositions, which made such paradoxes impossible: to him, a conditional is true if denial of the consequent is logically incompatible with the antecedent.

As if in denial, Horatio quit the law, kept borrowing and immersed himself in Bible study.

He shook his head again and again, as if in denial.

Monkey is concerned that broadcasters have suddenly become shy about using the word "celebrity", as if in denial about their reliance on them.

As if in denial, he was still making silents or films with sound but no dialogue when talkies were already wowing audiences.

But what McArdle added was an air of little-boy-lost innocence as if in denial that he was the architect of the surrounding chaos.