[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.
Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.
When the state executes a member of the human family, it declares that person worthless, without possibility of redemption. As Christians, we believe this is a heresy, a denial that each human being is created in God's own image.
After denial comes anger and finally, acceptance.
The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.
But grief is a walk alone. Others can be there, and listen. But you will walk alone down your own path, at your own pace, with your sheared-off pain, your raw wounds, you denial, anger, and bitter loss. You'll come to your own peace, hopefully, but it will be on your own, in your own time.
Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history.
Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.
People tend to believe accusations more than denials.
Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial.
Jesus existed, and those vocal persons who deny it do so not because they have considered the evidence with the dispassionate eye of the historian, but because they have some other agenda that this denial serves.
Denis Law could dance on eggshells.
Racism was just a tool to deal with frustration and pain and that people are in denial about the way we feel and desperately trying to control their environment the way their lives are. And ultimately their scapegoats aren't going to make them feel better, it's just going to increase hatred and the problem gets worse and worse.
Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.
Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
Security is the denial of life
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.