Any intimation that isolated patients are at risk of substandard medical care will elicit passionate denials from all individuals and institutions involved.
This dreadful journal, almost void of any other content but these passionate assertions and denials, intending to affirm existence and continuity but forever contradicting them, was filled anew each day, and soon mounted to hundreds of almost identical pages.
Get passionate about passion.
In many ways it was a passionate and eloquent defence of science, no doubt necessary in a period of climate change denial and CSIRO cuts, in which he expounded the deep thinking, creativity and artisanal nature of scientific work.
The rigor of art can have the opposite effect, and "The Turin Horse" is an example — an exceedingly rare one in contemporary cinema — of how a work that seems built on the denial of pleasure can, through formal discipline, passionate integrity and terrifying seriousness, produce an experience of exaltation.
Placed alongside an already deplorable human rights record and a passionate ideological opposition towards Israel and the West, Holocaust denial can only pave the way for further Iranian abuses at home or abroad.
Immigration reform is something about which McCain is passionate; he strongly opposed Arizona's Proposition 200, which calls for the denial of state welfare benefits to illegal aliens, and which passed in last year's election.
In her fictive world, Beyoncé can name black female pain, poignantly articulated by the passionate poetry of Somali-British poet Warsan Shire, and move through stages evoked by printed words: Intuition, Denial, Forgiveness, Hope, Reconciliation.
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.
