Disavowal

Fetterman’s disavowal of the progressive label stands in contrast to his frequent use of the term to describe himself on social media and on various campaign trails over the years.

It’s not a disavowal of the fact that bad films have always existed but a startling awareness that the way that bad films exist these days are less predicted on a swing and a miss and merely on the laziness wrought from being risk averse.

Instead of worrying about the white man who might murder me in my own home, or on my morning run, what preys on me in the night is how I constructed the sentence as I replay the day, if it was adequately punctuated in its disavowal of racist oppression.

The lack of a straightforward disavowal of cuts from the Bloomberg campaign, combined with Bloomberg’s history, suggests that his plan shares significant genetics with Simpson-Bowles.

Many believed they were to be deported to Japan no matter how they answered; they feared an explicit disavowal of the Emperor would become known and make such resettlement extremely difficult.