Sentences with phrase «reflect on the denial»

Williams describes the «blank stare» of Rosemarie Trockel's ceramic piece, challenging us to reflect on the denial of self - reflection.

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As we welcome another Moslems» Holy month of self denial, total dedication and sacrifice to Allah, let us pause and examine our minds and ourselves as a nation as we reflect on the significance of this all important yearly ritual.

Because - and especially in their assessments - they tend to reflect familiar categories: The sharp and often distorting distinctions among and between «subjects»; age grading; the value placed on quick recall; the dumbing down of the quality and grace of expository prose to make it fit into some sort of rating scheme; the overload of material to be covered, usually the inevitable result of intracommittee ideological logrolling, which leads to a bit of this and a dollop of that; the almost absolute denial of a value placed on individual ingenuity, craggy but provocative thinking, sustained work, and desirable variety; the lack of interest, signaled by the assessment apparatus, of the virtues of fairness, good character, and imagination.

This is a good definition of denial: what George can't reflect on is the idea that his failure is the consequence of the shallowness of his own argument — you must be deluded.

Jean Grove's scepticism was not built on prejudicial interpretation of data, nor did it extend to cynicism or flat denial of positions opposed to her own published views: which meant she was perfectly happy to accept new findings that forced her to adapt her own account, and perfectly happy to associate herself with courteous colleagues of / all / persuasions — Soon, Briffa, Jones, Esper included (all of which is reflected in the second posthumous edition of her book, «Little Ice Ages: Ancient and Modern», published in 2004).

On page 65 of the magazine there is a poem by Yveane Fallon called «I am to be» which reflects the dangers if we continued such denial.