Such views did not necessarily endear the Hepburns to their neighbors in Fenwick, Conn., but their children reacted with the family's characteristic disavowal of self-pity or other such indulgence.
This was surely a deliberate move: an homage, perhaps, to the session's inherently collaborative nature, or to the notion that music allows for (even facilitates) a disavowal of self, a welcome communion with something beyond one's own body and mind.
Biographies of Nazimova including Nazimova's own unfinished and unpublished memoir, now housed in the Springer Opera House's Glesca Marshall Library in Columbus, Georgia have a tendency to trace her lesbian self-styling and her public disavowal back to a traumatic childhood and the archetypal immigrant's instinct for survival through assimilation.
For Clark, the cultural history of attempts to represent planetary processes has revealed the localizing nature of our customary representational and interpretive frameworks, delusory or "ecophobic" in their disavowal of the scalar discontinuities between self and planet.
I have a hard time believing many porn films are more misogynistic than that grotesque disavowal of female intelligence, capability and self-respect.
Rather, his racial disavowal was a quintessentially American gesture toward self-invention.
"I expected nihilistic, self-destructive tendencies coupled with a hatred slash total disavowal of me and everything I stand for," says Gionis.
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As Buchloh says, "You could not have a conversation with Polke without his continuously destabilizing your sense of self, without his suggesting that it rested on some type of oblivion or disavowal".
However to many of those who welcomed President Nixon's disavowal of biological warfare, the distinction between deriving noxious material from bacteria and using the bacteria them selves is elusive.
