What is "refusals"

Usage examples of "refusals".

More refusals would be met by a long and rather wearying speech listing the virtues of hot, grilled bread as a salubrious breakfast snack.

Still further refusals would bring bitter recriminations, and sobbing fits.

And yet more refusals would bring about tirades of hysterical abuse in language that would make a pimp blush.

And as he waited, he struggled to recapture all the refusals on which his survival depended.

All he could do was trail behind Birinair’s flame and tell over his refusals like some despairing acolyte, desperate for faith, trying to invoke his own autonomy.

All he could do was trail behind Birinair's flame and tell over his refusals like some despairing acolyte, desperate for faith, trying to invoke his own autonomy.

It is the same with our personal decisions: from cynicism to idealism, from the skepticism of Pyrrho to the mystic dreams of Pythagoras, our refusals or our acceptances have already taken place.

Those who saw modesty in these refusals were as much mistaken as they who reproached me for pride.