Refusal, N. Denial Of Something Desired; Refusals Are Graded In A Descending Scale Of Finality Thus: The Refusal Absolute, The Refusal Condition, The Refusal Tentative And The Refusal Feminine. The Last Is Called By Some Casuists The Refusal Assentive.
Doubt, Indulged And Cherished, Is In Danger Of Becoming Denial; But If Honest, And Bent On Thorough Investigation, It May Soon Lead To Full Establishment Of The Truth.
Refusal To Believe Until Proof Is Given Is A Rational Position; Denial Of All Outside Of Our Own Limited Experience Is Absurd.
All Forms Of Tampering With Human Beings, Getting At Them, Shaping Them Against Their Will To Your Own Pattern, All Thought Control And Conditioning Is, Therefore, A Denial Of That In Men Which Makes Them Men And Their Values Ultimate.
[heresy Is] The Dislocation Of A Complete And Self-supporting Scheme By The Introduction Of A Novel Denial Of Some Essential Part Therein.
Religion, In One Sense, Is A Life Of Self-denial, Just As Husbandry, In One Sense, Is A Work Of Death.
Denial Exists Because Human Infants, Though Equipped With Trust-o-meters, Are Built To Trust, Blindly And Absolutely, Any Older Person Who Wanders Past.
I Take The Love Of God And Self-denial To Be The Sum Of All Saving Grace And Religion.
What Is Even More Worrying Still Is George Osborne's Breathtakingly Complacent Response To Today's Figures. This Is A Chancellor Who Is In Total Denial.
