How To Use Disavowal In A Sentence
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As the only moral criterion which we recognize is that of social utility, the public disavowal of one's conviction in order to remain in the Party's ranks is obviously more honourable than the quixotism of carrying on a hopeless struggle.
Autumn
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A deliberate disavowal of any attempt to ‘lay down didactically the principles’ of prose writing provides him with an excellent basis to do exactly that.
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Thus the famous passage on the disavowal of the "negative" and the human "predilection for the affirmative" is also transposed from the end in the second version
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)
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Here we have today Scott McClellan, the president's press secretary, specifically demanding further disavowals of the story from Newsweek.
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I accused you of denial before; this looks more like disavowal.
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His disavowal notwithstanding, he sounded more concerned about the rights of polygamists than about the plight of child brides.
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Apart from the fact of her disappearance is what I can only read as her final "disavowal" of the "Feminist" label.
Why I Will Not Disavow the "Feminist" Label
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Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.". Sigmund Freud
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Now as in the past, the claim of reportage has always stood as a disavowal of responsibility for the pictures' contents.
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But neither the anti-phenomenalistic spirit of his neutral monism, nor his explicit disavowals of phenomenalism have managed to take the wind out of the sails of the phenomenalism suspicion.
Neutral Monism
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Plekhanov's program did not represent an explicit disavowal of socialist objectives.
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As I have noted, Freud published his "disavowal" of Moses the year before, that is to say, a year before the Nazis marched into Austria.
The Jewish Freud
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For Schelling's purposes, the Phrygian priests of modern European philosophy embody the spiritualizing violence and recursive loop of this desire, desire that even puts the resistant negativity of the body to efficient good work by libidinally investing its very disavowal, that is, by secretly deriving pleasure out of the ascetic renunciation of pleasure.
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
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The new tiredness is 'located in the head' and seems to be the result of a special kind of disavowal where structurally generated work habits are perceived to be under the control of the individual to an extent that may not be the case.
'Insomnia: A Cultural History'
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The claim rang false because punk in its pure form disavowed commercial success, a disavowal that united an otherwise motley array of youth subcultures: high-school misfits, skateboard kids, hardcore skinheads, doped-out postcollegiate slackers.
Michael Dirda reviews "Listen to This," by music critic Alex Ross
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Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.". Sigmund Freud
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Michael, is this in your judgment, even though there have been disavowals, that there would be any interest on the part of the major parties in making this a religion government?
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Like the Phrygian priests, idealists misrecognize loss for gain, but in an affectively imbued manner that leaves behind trace elements marking the violence of this disavowal as well as its incompleteness.
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
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Under the doctrine of prosecution disclaimer, a patentee may limit the meaning of a claim term by making a clear and unmistakable disavowal of scope during prosecution.
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I hesitate to remind all of my blogging bretheren, but this "disavowal" movement is a bi-partisan, intra-partisan game.
Hullabaloo
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A new RSAbased undeniable signature scheme was proposed which is more efficient because of its 3move confirmation and disavowal protocols.
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Agreement may be achievable only by formulas so vague as to invite later disavowal or disagreement.
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It was the most important disavowal consensus politics in recent history.
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We start with the statement of a “fact” and we’re left with a disavowal from the also anonymous Teddy.
Waldo Jaquith - You’re never anonymous on the internet.
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Yet, in its disavowal of pure estheticism and visual idealization, Lee's work seems more American than Korean.
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There is evidence here of a denegation, a strong disavowal of the body in its inert, contemplative and
Hegel on Buddhism
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Some parents refuse to acknowledge such sons as their progeny, and place adverts in newspapers proclaiming disavowal.
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Wonder if the big news orgs will note this in their coverage of McCain's "disavowal" of Black's remarks.
Obama Camp: McCain Flip-Flopped On Question Of Whether Specter Of Terrorism Helps Him Politically!
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Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.". Sigmund Freud
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Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.". Sigmund Freud
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Such disavowals always remind me of Henry Kissinger's line that when a state denies it intends to take a course of action, it is signalling to others that it has the capacity to take such action if it wishes.
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Frey's ‘novel’ isn't the first memoir of substance abuse, but with its harsh typesetting, galling repetition and disavowal of adjectives and quotations, his may be the most pointlessly abrasive.
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As such, the actions of both princes embody a male cultural fantasy of absolute autonomy based on the disavowal of the crucial role that women play as mediators within traditional homosocial culture.
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These concern the suppression of all terrorist activity on their territory, the transparency of banking and trade arrangements, and the disavowal of weapons of mass destruction.
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By making it an issue and demanding some kind of disavowal, however, the campaigns bring attention to these comments as a way of painting the other side as hitting below the belt.
McCain vs. Schultz - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
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Some people cope by denial or disavowal, making open communication less appropriate in the earlier stages.
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Whatever his intention, I think Scott's disavowal is significant, particularly in light of his consistent refusal to publicly discuss his own ethnic background, which became an issue after Crossfire was released:
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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The disavowal of nothingness hides another disavowed, even more denegated and foreclosed thing, the inertia of the self-pleasurer, who after all appears in the form of an inert statue, a self-consuming artifact, the static image of a meditator disappearing into nothing, and/or dissolving into enjoyment.
Hegel on Buddhism
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I heard many comments about people being of equal value and of not liking anyone who ‘thinks they are better than I am,’ but I also heard frequent disavowals about economic equality.
