Cass deserves great credit for publicizing with clarity the dire socioeconomic problems that the vast, struggling majority of Americans endure, while the top 20percentt of us simply ignore or willfully deny that reality.
Deniers are executives who either refuse to face facts or willfully deny the existence of a problem despite the existence of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
I know it seems ridiculous to compare thoughtful, often loving teachers -- of both sexes -- with random jerks on the street, but that is true only if you willfully deny the centrality of the 13-year-old girls' point of view in the matter of her own comportment.
One of the judges, A. Raymond Randolph, dissented, writing that the commission was "willfully denying" a command by Congress.
Some of his pronouncements seem profound ("Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully denies fact cannot achieve truth"), and others merely puzzling ("Love poems must be bounced back off a moon"), and still others inane (as when he ascribed a perceived prevalence of male homosexuality in America to the practice of drinking milk shakes).
Because Alice has such a faltering grip on reality and Lucy willfully denies reality, both make for unreliable narrators — a common device in the currently hot publishing genre of psychological suspense (Gillian Flynn's "Gone Girl," Paula Hawkins's "The Girl on the Train").
If Pantaleo, who administered the choke hold that killed Garner, is to be charged, the DOJ's investigation must show that he "willfully" denied Garner's constitutional protections, and that the officer used an "unreasonable" or excessive amount of force.
In a way, they are not unlike a new version of the deluded "AIDS denialists" of the late 1980s who willfully denied any connection between HIV and AIDS in the face of all the evidence to the contrary.
Barnes admitted that, in failing to obtain medical care for Wilson, he willfully denied Wilson of his constitutional right to medical care, and that his inaction resulted in Wilson's death.
We have come so far, only on the threshold of another year to understand that all that progress is to be willfully denied and subverted unless we stand up and resist in the name of ourselves, our communities, and our ensuing generations.
Most damaging of all is that Greenberg set back the clock on global crossculturalization fifty years when he willfully denied that the painters he championed referenced any of the historical and global sources for abstraction, when in fact Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, and Sam Francis all claimed to have been informed by tribal and non-Western classical arts.
