Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
We're involved with ongoing discussion with the parties included in our agreement. But we have not reached any conclusion, nor have we provided any form of acceptance or denial of the proposal. The process is still under way.
You can almost create a formula for it. The greater the denial at the front end, the longer the term of penance to get free on the back side.
In Asia, for a long time we have been in denial about the sustainability of high oil prices. There is tremendous potential for Asia to improve efficiency.
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.
We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.
Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.
In the denial of disorder there is order.
Great repressions create dualities.