Denial
Denial noun - An unwillingness to grant something asked for.
Ways
Ways noun - Structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired.
Both words in one sentence
- Rainbow Dash spends most of the episode in denial that Tank (her pet tortoise) needs to hibernate for the winter and trying to find ways to keep him around.
Source: Cruel to Be Kind -
And yet, his big ego prevents him from gaining the love of his life and Danny as a surrogate son because he is too deep in denial to realize he's getting love in all the wrong ways.
Source: Broken Ace -
Mad Men uses this both ways with the same character: Pete unknowingly knocks up Peggy, who in turn is in very deep psychological denial about her pregnancy (and was on birth control), but takes years to do the same to his wife.
Source: Law of Inverse Fertility
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