Sentence examples for profound denial from inspiring English sources

Italy has also, however, been a country in profound denial.

This is long overdue acknowledgement of the profound denial of women's right to autonomy in this country".

In the words of the statement from Occupy London: "the profound denial of a participatory, direct democracy which the Bilderberg Conference represents".

While molesters often exhibit profound denial that they had done anything wrong and a lack of empathy for their victims, after treatment these perpetrators took responsibility for their actions and no longer viewed children as sexual objects.

But I have no idea what I will do when I turn 40, mainly because I am in such profound denial that, when I was asked a security question about my age recently, I was literally incapable of forming the words and had to answer questions about my mother's maiden name and our early pets instead.

As some semblance of order begins to emerge from a tumultuous week for the rebels of Misrata and Gaddafi's vanquished loyalists, a picture is taking shape of a dictator who was either defiant or in profound denial – no one seems sure which – until his gruesome death in Sirte.

It is possible to take Ms. Stern very seriously indeed, though, and to consider "Denial" a profound human document without considering it a profound literary one.

And, in fact, he put it better than anyone has: "The current financial crisis can make us overlook the fact that it originated in a profound human crisis: the denial of the primacy of the human person!" he wrote.

Underlying this denial is a profound sense of entitlement.

I can't think of a more profound or unsettling study in denial from my theater-going experience.

Explanations for this collective denial have ranged from profound fear of female sexuality to sheer laziness.