The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.
Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.
If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.
In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.
You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.
I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.
But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
I am crazy for dessert. I eat everything. No one should be denied anything... just don't eat the whole thing.
Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.
If knowledge is power, let's spread it as widely as possible and dilute it to deny those who would abuse it.
Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.
Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
About 30% of fresh food is thrown away in supermarkets every day, although they will deny it. British households are throwing an estimated 30% of their food away, too.
Beauty is a combination of qualities. I don't think one can deny that certain people or things feel aesthetically pleasing. But without an equally pleasing being behind that form, there is no beauty there.
Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.
By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.
