push away

Trump's rhetoric has "pushed away all of the other issues" that were top of mind for Canadians before his inauguration on 20 January, notes Luc Turgeon, a political science professor at the University of Ottawa.

He’s going to push back when he feels like he’s being pushed away.

You have to push away the reality of risk.

He will be thinking "I'm not going to be able to get us out of this" and needs the support of people close to him to push away those insecurities - and he has that.

That Fife himself is a filmmaker feels just right: he has built a life and career on seeing the world’s ugliness, while pushing away what feels ugly inside.