Sentence examples for obvious refusal from inspiring English sources

I suppose there's an inversion of the 'Life and Adventures of' tradition into 'The Life and Opinions of plus an obvious refusal of certain narrative conventions, for example in Tristram's inability to get himself born for the first third of his own book.

"It does seem to us that in view of the parents' obvious refusal to return to the UK, a proportionate response is to seek their urgent co-operation with an assessment in order that their plans for the children may be clearer to us, and about which reasoned decisions may be taken".

He may have played a part in Sweden's first goal with a cheap concession of possession but more than made up for it with a willingness to be positive, a determination to take the direct route to goal and a very obvious refusal to shirk a physical challenge.

Mr. Harrell suggests that personality, gender and identity are fluid, slippery constructs, as each performer morphs before our eyes into a new theatrical construct, applying makeup and changing clothes in the audience, scratching about distractingly in plastic bags placed on seats in a (possibly over-obvious) refusal of performance etiquette.

Everything I can see about Feldstein's economic framework points to fiscal stimulus as the obvious answer; his refusal to consider that possibility has to be entirely, and unforgivably, political.

It isn't obvious that a refusal to play this kind of ratings game would necessarily be a give-away that one is a machine).

In the 1950s and early 1960s the radical movement, represented in the Indian cinema by the Godardian work of Ray's fellow Bengali Mrinal Sen, frequently attacked Ray for his lack of obvious polemic and his refusal to openly espouse political causes in his films.

This story is distasteful from a number of obvious standpoints: the student's refusal to acknowledge wrongdoing, the father's blind defense of his daughter's "innocence" and the reflexive effort to abuse power and privilege to avoid fair consequences.

An obvious example is Anna Wintour's refusal to carry a bag at fashion shows (the inference being that she has minions to do the heavy lifting); another is a fondness for ludicrously high heels (translation: I only take taxis, darling).

But that is no excuse for making it steadily easier for people to buy, carry and use weapons, or for our political leaders' continuing refusal to take obvious steps like banning the unrestricted sale of weapons at gun shows, or sales of slightly modified military assault weapons, or unregulated Internet sales of ammunition and ammunition drums that can hold 150 high-damage rounds.

This stubborn refusal to accept the obvious afflicted the French government in both Indochina and Algeria.