The iPhone abandoned in the sand is a clear image of renouncing something that we haven't always had.
And however much Manguso wishes to renounce narrative in favour of something more instinctual and impressionistic, she ends up telling the story of how she lost a friend and found a husband.
He earned a reputation for being a revolutionary and generous teacher who inspired students to renounce painting and view art as something that happens in the brain.
He decided to renounce his vows and go to war – something monks are allowed to do only when the faith itself is threatened – actions that led to the Chinese torturing his mother to death.
The first is to renounce high responsibilities; the second to deny oneself or someone else something; the third to abolish by an official proclamation.
To admit that it will soon be superseded would be to renounce its own raison d'être, to pulverise its own libidinous power, to defetishise itself – which is not something you expect a fetish to do.
Turkey wants the Kurds to renounce their desire to incorporate it into their region something they will not do in a hurry, if ever.
Who wouldn't want to renounce war?
We are to renounce all foreign securities.
That would be to renounce my values.
