The story is Kipling's brilliant refutation of the widely accepted saw that time heals all wounds. |
When I explain that she is a living refutation of her own argument, that she is a demonstration that money works, she looks sceptical. |
For the rest I think I may be excused here from a detailed refutation of all these doctrines. |
An essay on Leonardo was possibly intended as a refutation of Ruskin, whose emphasis on the moral value of art Pater directly opposed. |
This difficulty is fatal to Lewis's refutation of Manicheanism and, more significantly, to his moral argument. |
He recommended that special attention be given to the refutation of these fallacies. |