Word: denialism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gates say that his criteria are somehow more justifiable? Clearly the blind acceptance of all texts of difference would be a syllabus writer's nightmare, but don't the very structures an institutions of acceptance and denial ensure that some people will remain voiceless...
More worrisome are lingering rumors that the President once had an extramarital affair. In 1987 eldest son George W. Bush informed Newsweek that he had asked his father about adultery and had been told that "the answer to the Big A question is N.O." That blanket denial put the issue to rest during the last campaign. But questions about Clinton's alleged infidelity, which have become something of a humorous refrain in the Bush camp, have brought such matters back into the public domain; it may be only a matter of weeks before Bush is directly asked about...
...cast members are virtually indistinguishable from each other. The majority are dressed in diapers--the men's distended by suspiciously large bulges--in unflattering hues, yet another post-modernist denial of the Aesthetic...
...dramas are curiously ritualistic and similar to one another. A celebrity wanders in the shadow world of Dysfunction: amid drugs or booze or binge eating. Or else in Denial of something, of incest, say, or child abuse, or another shameful secret. This is the Exemplary Ordeal. Celebrity Hits Bottom (descent into underworld). Then stumbles halfway up, to Betty Ford or some equivalent purgatorial rehab. At last, fallen angel reascends to the upper air, finds new life (often new mate as well, or else peace with the truth that, hey, it's O.K. to be alone). The rebirth is celebrated...
During the team's match this year at Princeton, softball alumna Jen Clawson '91 exhibited the typical denial syndrome: "Unit I visited California last summer, I'd never been west of the Mississippi...