Sentence examples similar to of a renounce from inspiring English sources

But, according to Foucault, the new idea that the mad were merely sick ("mentally" ill) and in need of medical treatment was not at all a clear improvement on earlier conceptions (e.g., the Renaissance idea that the mad were in contact with the mysterious forces of cosmic tragedy or the 17th-18th-century 17th-18th-century 17th-18th-centuryreason).

"A lot of people take [your new] paper to be a renouncing of your earlier arguments".

Koehler simply glides from New York to California, as if one day he had decided for the sheer goodness of it to renounce a way of life which was hurting him with its falseness and futility.

The events of 11 November 1938 offer a panorama of civilisation renounced: a nightmare world in which empathy is extinguished.

As with the ending of Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Gertrud" and John Ford's "7 Women," the end of "The Wolf of Wall Street" renounces a world of horrors even as it embraces its destructive passions.

But under Mr. Herzog's questioning, a shaken officer, identified in the film as a member of a "death team," renounces his support of capital punishment.

This is a nation drenched in a peace-at-any-price mentality after Hiroshima and Nagasaki and under the influence of a Constitution that renounces war, a legacy of postwar American occupation.

In March, Islamic State's branch in the Sinai posted a video of its religious police forcing a group of Sufis to renounce their beliefs under threat of death.

The first Christians practiced a simple kind of communism as described in Acts 4 32 37, for example—both as a form of solidarity and as a way of renouncing worldly possessions.

Swami Parthasarathy, eighty years old, a native of Chennai, India, having renounced a lucrative career in the family shipping business and the Rolls-Royce that came with it, and founded the Vedanta Corporate Academy two hours southeast of Mumbai, has a deep understanding of this delicate role.

The very idea of us renouncing a beverage that King Charles II tried to ban and The Women's Petition Against Coffee of 1674 claimed had "so Eunucht our Husbands and Crippled our more kind gallants they come from it with nothing moist but their snotty noses, nothing stiffe but their Joints... .. is unthinkable.