Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when his songs chronicled social unrest, although Dylan repudiated suggestions from journalists that he was a spokesman for his generation.
"I never liked the looks of the life that was programmed for me — ordinary, hillbilly and poor — and I repudiated it from the time I was 7 years old," Ms. Brown wrote in her book "Having It All" (1982).
His comments come a day after he publicly repudiated statements from Israel's hawkish new foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, that agreements reached at an American-sponsored peace conference in Annapolis, Md., in 2007 have "no validity".
Any moral high ground that any Republican who has endorsed Trump attempts to gain from repudiating him for misogyny blaring from his recently exposed videotape has a disquieting racial blind spot or simply couldn't care less about race.
All these accounts reflect the intuition that an action cannot be attributed to the agent herself if, even as she performs this action, she occupies a point of view from which she repudiates what she is doing.
The new cabinet, albeit highly successful, was plagued from the beginning by strong opposition from Conservative Party members who repudiated the new recruits from the Liberal side, believing that these did not truly share the party's ideals and were mainly interested in gaining public offices.
Some musicians dislike that word (Ahmad Jamal distances himself from it, Nicholas Payton utterly repudiates it), but the underlying question is the range of musical styles that jazz implies.
The results of the mid-terms, far from repudiating this dynamic, have reflected it.
On the other hand, the Tea Party has been repudiated by everyone from John McCain to The Wall Street Journal to Ann Coulter — hardly a bunch of RINOs.
While New Hampshire voters have a history of repudiating a decision from Iowa, Mr. Obama's advisers hastily created a television commercial here showing glimpses of his victory speech.
