The engineer's sense of reason wanted to deny his feelings.

She would deny her feelings and will herself to happiness.

The following chart shows how men and women commonly deny their true feelings.

He tries to deny his sexual feelings, but this only makes him hate her.

Later on in the story Hiyo no longer denies her feelings.

Not that she'd been actively denying her feelings for him.

All this time he had denied his feelings, unable to come to terms with them.

And the harder I punished us both by denying my feelings.

Despite herself she is attracted to him, but tries to deny her feelings.

Yet he was powerless to deny his feelings; they were too strong.