Sentence examples for willful denial from inspiring English sources
"willful denial" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English
It means the refusal to accept something to be true, especially out of pride or for personal gain. You can use it when you want to express that someone is denying something that has been backed up by facts or evidence. For example, "His willful denial of the fact that he had stolen the money made us doubt his credibility."
Denial is a gauze; willful denial, an opiate.
This willful denial of a seemingly incontrovertible truth is bewildering.
So far, the Republican presidential candidates are matching their House colleagues in willful denial.
He somehow sold the idea that willful denial can eradicate distress.
And the nation's willful denial of that toll has been just as profound.
He also accused the Obama Administration of "a willful denial of reality on a scale that is breathtaking".
The darker allegations that emerged during his and Farrow's breakup that he had sexually abused the couple's seven-year-old adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow got buried in tabloid confusion, willful public denial, and widespread ignorance about how kids process trauma.
Yet looking more deeply, we are all participants in a culture of violence with its accompanying apathy, forgetfulness, willful ignorance, denial, spineless narrow self-interest, hypocrisy, and ideological intransigence.
So there's no time for denial, willful blindness, or wishful thinking.
As Jake's female counterpart, the symbolically impotent and resolutely unmodern Hadley lulls herself for a short time into a willful state of denial while her writer husband shapes "disaster and human messiness" into "something that would last forever".
Mama, played with forceful Junoesque centeredness and a willful air of denial by Ms. Ekulona, is a pragmatic soul who lies, cheats and treats human beings as commodities in the name of survival.
