1.   But if Pioline was unwilling to wax poetic about Sampras, to place him among the all-time greats, at least Cedric was not in complete denial.

2.   House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a former member of the NRA, was in complete denial.

3.   Irish society is destroyed by alcohol, but is in complete denial.

4.   Nor is he in complete denial, insisting everything is hunky-dory.

5.   Though taxi drivers decried such actions as a complete denial of their civil rights, a defiant Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says that his administration responded decisively but reasonably.

6.   Exaggeration is the over-emphasis of truth while distortion is a complete denial of truth.

7.   When things do go wrong, most companies go through an initial stage of complete denial, followed by explaining away some more obvious signs of trouble.

8.   In Paris, the Schneider group issued a complete denial.