Word: denialism
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...rock-ribbed fears that the erstwhile Gator's preference has turned to that metaphorical dish, they might very well point to the scene in Best Friends where, with a pout and an arched eyebrow. Burt grumbles to Goldie Hawn: "I hate grits." It is, it seems, a final, symbolic denial of his celluloid past...
...efforts to develop nuclear weapons for nuclear energy and enriching facilities. Instead of recognizing the threat such a policy poses to American efforts to check nuclear proliferation, the Administration has reduced the complex nuclear question to a deceptively simple black and white one. Referring to Zia's verbal denial of interest in developing his country's nuclear weapons capability, one Administration official announced. "We accept that the President of Pakistan is telling us the truth...
...might think. Indeed, the refusal to be flashy finally seems to be an earnest of the obvious idealism that Attenborough brought to his work, and of his apparent desire to both demythologize and demystify his subject, thus restoring Gandhi to human dimension. The director's stylistic self-denial serves to keep one's attention fastened where it belongs: on a persuasive, if perhaps debatable vision of Gandhi's spirit, and on the remarkable actor who has caught its light in all its seasons...
V.V.M.F. Chairman Jack Wheeler, a West Point graduate and Yale-educated lawyer, thinks the memorial, discomforting or not, marks a turning point. Says he: "It exposes, and thereby ends, the denial that has characterized the country's reaction to the war. It is probably," he ventures, "the single most important step in the process of healing and redemption...
Nixon's decision also orders the rent board to reconsider Polednak's original petition for a removal permit. Nixon stated that the agency's denial of the permit was based on incomplete records...