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.
They return to the New Jersey seaside town where Imogene grew up, and which she had contemptuously repudiated in favor of city life.
But Andrew Sullivan, looking at the language itself, lumped "shackle-y" with her "refudiate" moment, in which she conflated "repudiate" and "refute".
The root of her curiosity is the kinship with him, which she intuits and repudiates, I think.
Her widower, Asif Zardari, led their political party to victory in an election in which voters repudiated Musharraf and his political allies.
In 1970, after leaving the Beatles, Lennon released his confessional "primal scream" album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, in which he repudiated the group's deified mystique.
A much-disputed confession, which Mr. Tankleff did not write or sign and which he repudiated, was the central issue in his trial.
How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes?" We are told that Jesus wept, but not that he ever laughed.
In the past thirty years, Chomsky has staged two more linguistic revolutions, in each of which he repudiated much of what he had said before.
Mr. Tankleff was convicted largely on the basis of an incomplete confession, written for him by detectives, which he repudiated almost immediately and never signed.
