Sentences with phrase «blanket denial»

"Blanket denial" refers to the act of completely refusing or rejecting something without considering individual cases or evidence. It means denying something as a whole without any exceptions or nuance. Full definition
When I told this story in the March 1973 Artforum (and in Building - Art: Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction, 1993) I adduced an industrial picturesque as early as the historical moment of Friedrich Engels, T. H. Hair's A Series of Views of the Collieries in the Counties of Northumberland and Durham (1844), in what was a «response» to Carl Andre's blanket denial of formalism in the Bechers» work.
Blanket denials, obviously, don't hold the same weight as investigative fact - finding.
In its response this past March, Cuomo's office issued a blanket denial: Staffers «do not use their personal email accounts for government business.»
Friday, Feb. 29: Obama spokesman Bill Burton issues a blanket denial of contact between «any level» of the Obama campaign and the Canadian government regarding NAFTA:
There should be no blanket denial of venues, she said, offering hip - hop entertainment.
Appropriately, the Washington Post wound up outing Newsweek columnist Joe Klein (following Klein's blanket denials, to his comrades in print, that he was the author).
Nor is it a blanket denial of the fact that the earth is getting very gradually hotter, but how do we reconcile global warming taking place at the farthest reaches of the solar system with the contention that it is caused by human activity?
«The main idea I try to get across is that there are going to be a lot of close calls, but there should not be in American law a blanket denial or a refusal of a right to be forgotten,» says Frank Pasquale, a professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law who specializes in the social implications of information technology.
When first confronted by the allegations, Valeant issued a blanket denial stating that, in all respects, it acted within legal boundaries.
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