This season I saw 14 Taylor dances and experienced 14 disparate worlds, many full of rejected thoughts.
On the border of old age, Mailer appears to have rejected thoughts of the crown and to have found it more satisfying to think of himself as a contender.
At a City Center studio presentation exploring Mr. Taylor's career, Damian Woetzel, the former City Ballet principal who is now a dance presenter, used a quotation by Emerson in explaining the choreography's appeal: "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts".
There are hundreds of Emersonian aphorisms that reverberate for me, but none more than this, embedded in the first paragraph of "Self Reliance": "In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty".
In the end the show struggles to reconcile its own contradictions: gushing and detached, glib and deeply romantic, a play of ideas that rejects deep thought.
He is sometimes characterised as a wilderness artist but he rejects the thought, talking of the importance of negotiating with farmers and landowners.
The representation of war in art is the novel's other great, related theme; when Paul urgently suggests to Elinor that her views would be mitigated if her brother were to be killed in action, she rejects the thought defiantly: 'The last thing I'd want to do is paint any part of what killed him.
Take someone who thinks that the Republicans won't win the election (~R), and who rejects the thought that if they do win, they will double income tax (D).
They concluded that the students considered mutation correctly as random DNA alteration, which enabled them to understand evolution by linking changes at the DNA level to those at the phenotype level, and rejected teleological thoughts, which are a widespread misconception that Japanese high school students retain even after they have finished high school (Yamanoi et al. 2011).
Brain scans of their frontal lobes show that they just reject "negative thoughts".
