Sentence examples for sheer denial from inspiring English sources

But there is the matter of investor sentiment, perhaps still too bullish, perhaps for patriotic reasons or from sheer denial.

It's a watchable piece of work, but doesn't quite do justice to the subtle wriggling and squirming and sheer denial that characterised Armstrong's downfall.

But pretending that tests don't also have implicit costs, both one-time and ongoing, is sheer denial.

The level of sheer denial in Sub-Saharan Africa was absolutely extraordinary, and it remains extraordinary to this day.

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I tried clinics, I tried Narcotics Anonymous, I tried therapy, reduction cures, exercise and, eventually, sheer white-knuckled denial.

And, by sheer coincidence, this denial proves to be simply the latest in a thematic stream of calculated lies.

Obama's reelection wasn't so much a result of "destiny" or "demography," as the instant conventional wisdom now has it, as of sheer stupidity and denial on the part of the Republican elders.

Of the climate in Washington, D.C. during that period, he disclosed in a 2007 interview that "I like the sheer sort of neo-Stalinist denial of reality.

Yet out of either ideological blindness to reality or sheer political opportunism, Republicans insist on climate change denial.

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