Word: denialism
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...Jesus Christ is God. "No," he responded, "God is God." Kaseman was accepted by a majority. But that answer stirred deep alarm in some delegates. In recent years conservative Presbyterians have had to swallow a fair degree of doctrinal flexibility, but they interpreted Kaseman's response as a denial of the deity of Christ. The conservatives filed a protest and eventually the Permanent Judicial Commission, the national supreme court of the 2.5 million-member United Presbyterian Church, bounced the case back to the local presbytery for further examination...
...week Hua was the object of a crescendo of speculation by Chinese and foreigners alike that he was being forced to step down as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, theoretically the country's most powerful position. There was no official confirmation - or denial. Nonethe less, it seemed a good bet that some abrupt bit of palace intrigue had indeed toppled Hua from his post, though the change may not formally take place until a party Congress can be convened next year. Hua's most likely successor is a man who has lately been receiving unusually prominent treatment...
Both the upbeat As-Safir report and the hasty Iranian denial were received stoically in Washington. Said one senior White House official: "The real problem is that this issue still requires a political decision in Tehran. The political will to end it all simply has not jelled...
...sins lighting up in succession like a stage-wide slot machine that lands on whichever sins is being acted out below. In this world, beauty becomes a painted go-go dancer, so it's no wonder lust, pride and anger should seem more virtuous than the alternatives of self-denial, hypocrisy and quiescence...
...secretary's most embarrassing moment? His overwrought, 33-page denial of a report in 1978 that White House Aide Hamilton Jordan had spit his Amaretto-and-cream at a woman in a Georgetown bar. Says Powell: "I should have handled that better. At least I should have typed it single space...