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Sentence Examples I have an aversion to mean people and I'd rather pay the entire dinner bill than listen to people haggling about who had a second sambuca. Save for his aversion to the blues, the patient is something of a textbook classicist. While it is known that Antabuse produces an aversion to alcohol, this study could herald an important breakthrough in treating cocaine addiction. He is understandably gynephobic, with an aversion for young women powered by an antipathic neurological response. The U.S. government has a strong aversion to any commitments it does not think it will keep. On the other hand, the standard tones could mean a lack of daring or even an aversion to technology. I was a radio deejay for a time, so I have a strong aversion to anybody tampering with my visions of a real artist. For the most part, I hate losing hard earned money, hence my aversion to Las Vegas. This impression was often based on an aversion to the strong odour of the camels rather than the cameleers themselves. How could a taste for certain bright colours or an aversion to others possibly have helped our ancestors to survive? Your latex allergy has brought me untold misery and your aversion to hot wax has cost me hundreds at the laser salon. She liked him, which is extremely important given her strong aversion to doctors. He had an aversion to horror movies, but he would have preferred one to what he had seen on the screen. Ultimately what it amounts to is an aversion to pretentiousness and egomania. Victims would develop an aversion to garlic and other blood-thinning agents. Not surprisingly, the aversion may be stronger when the person in question is a stranger. After 20-odd years of this, my sister and I had a strong aversion to turkey, as it reminded us of some of the worst ever days of our lives. On the other hand, if the diet was familiar to them, then they did not form a significant aversion to it. Schopenhauer had an aversion to fighting, and even more of an aversion to fighting on the Prussian side against the French. Our palates all have the same five types of detectors, the same aversion to bitter and mania for sweet. Show More Sentences What unites them is not an aversion to change, but an aversion to imposed change. Rats have evolved a strong, innate aversion to the smells of their predators. The most common treatment was behavioural aversion therapy with electric shocks. For example, mild aversion therapy followed by positive reinforcement may be effective. Out of the 29 patients who had been through aversion therapy, only one considered himself as heterosexual. The Fascist Party openly avowed its aversion to democracy and the liberal state. I have an aversion to sites which literally give you the bird on the front page, so I didn't linger. More recently forms of aversion therapy and mental pain have been recognized in many psychiatric procedures. Pfennig, the University of North Carolina biologist, added that this aversion to mimics has been seen in other species as the result of genetics. He had an instinctive aversion to a succession of short syllables, and even tribrachs are of comparatively rare occurrence. Some patients died during aversion therapy after choking on their own vomit when therapists utilised disgusting sexual imagery to make them sick. Other symptoms can be an aversion to bright light, an inability to speak or control movement and uncharacteristic behaviour. There are frequent complaints about unwillingness to work, lack of entrepreneurialism and aversion to risk. Her skill as both a storyteller and a songsmith suggests an aversion to short-cuts and the easy way out. They often had tiny spats about Maddie's aversion to anything girlish or even hinting towards being a woman. Is there some sort of aversion therapy involving repeated viewings of American Beauty that I need to do? The obese relative had earned notoriety for his aversion to exercise before death consumed him. Pediatric speech therapists and occupational therapists deal with food aversion issues all the time. Rafters appreciated the functionality of the strappy footwear enough to overcome any aversion to the odd look. Secondly, there appears to be a general aversion among Labor and Democrats to long-term policy planning and strategic thinking. Show More Sentences He said that initially he had an aversion to opera, seeing it as a somewhat ossified form of music. Finally, I overcame my former urban aversion to outdoor clubs, and began joining weekend day hikes and bird walks. I can't really understand the distinct aversion felt by the three persons who humored me by coming along. This tone of slight snobbishness, a patrician aversion to vulgar middle-class prejudice, is typical of the book. But if top management scored high on crisis management, they get a fail grade when it comes to crisis aversion. In fact, security measures promoted by risk aversion tend to be ineffective. His aversion to racial discrimination compelled him to integrate his high school swimming pool-after which the school closed the pool. I have an aversion to displacement, scars, irrevocable changes in a familiar landscape. The credit goes to Michael Craig Martin and his Damascene vision that the British aversion to modernism was based on its lack of subject. They are habits, predispositions, deeply engrained attitudes of aversion and preference. In the field of psychotherapy there is a very effective technique called aversion therapy. Europeans often have difficulty in overcoming their initial aversion to this smell. There continues to be an aversion to tax increases and growth in government. Some chefs are easy to trust-no matter how discombobulated the ingredient list, no matter how intense the food aversion. The result had been that he'd eventually dulled down the phobia to an aversion in regard to cats, and the gynecophobia had worn off. After all, as he explains at length in his book, these three things have a common enemy in risk aversion. Mere emphasis on theory would ultimately lead to an aversion in the learners towards the subject. I have a strong aversion to most jam band music and its accompanying culture. So many of us strive to raise our children with good moral values including an aversion to violence and aggression. Thus, criticising young people and negatively stereotyping them as rebellious, met with strong aversion from the youth and children alike. Show More Sentences Wiens noted their aversion to woody edges and cultivated fields, and Bock found them more abundant on interior plots than on edge plots. The other thing I didn't like about it was an almost religious aversion to Microsoft. He also observed the students learning an aversion to investigating patients' social and psychological problems. Like as not I'd have developed an aversion to people I didn't know, turned in on myself, and ended up a miserable old man instead of the happy old geezer I have become. One of the ugliest aspects of the risk aversion culture is the way we name and blame the beleaguered professionals who are at the sharp end of our failed policies. Since clearly aversive substances such as lithium chloride also produce taste aversion, the taste aversion model appears to have little face validity. He had a marked aversion to garbage, and this saw him take frequent trips to the dump to rid himself of that noxiously insidious but ever-accumulating stuff. Despite his aversion to literary pretension, Parks has translated the Italian writer, who is more surely a purveyor of bosh than Rushdie ever will be. Historically, I have always baulked at the concept of fancy dress, on the grounds that I have a natural aversion to making myself look ridiculous. As newspapers began to reach broader segments of the population, the aversion to reporting on domestic matters lingered. And in general, most people have an aversion to topics which are likely to trigger a personal grudge in a coworker. As he did not share Blackburn's aversion to high places, he and partner Mick Sutcliffe began investigating the occurrence by roping down from the top of the quarry. The only thing approaching an ideological commitment that Lapid has ever clearly expressed is an aversion to the ultra-Orthodox. Both use as starting points the relationships of the protagonists to their personal avatars, iconoclasts who encourage their aversion to the trivial workaday world. The other day, fielding questions about her aversion for holding press conferences, she openly admitted to her feeling that media exercises may not yield the desired results. No more chips, much less bacon, far less drinking, and a general aversion of sugary and salty foods. However, his aversion to marriage, his offbeat attitude to parenthood and his serial mendacity may be rooted rather closer to home in his own life. Actually for Conte, who has a passionate aversion to labeling, that may be a bit too much categorization for his liking. I thought about asking him if he couldn't have done this himself, or at least with a shirt on, but decided not to risk him questioning my aversion to his toplessness. In addition to his temperamental aversion to populism, Roosevelt also had a practical reason to be cautious. Show More Sentences A stubborn aversion to defeat was reflected in a qualifying campaign bettered only by France, a consistency they have carried into the tournament proper. This infamous film, withdrawn by the director during his lifetime, deals with the questionable effects of aversion therapy on a violent teenage rapist. The book casts a jaundiced eye on everything from helicopter rescues and large, boisterous groups to the use of cell phones, to which Guy had a particularly strong aversion. Aversion to risk, he says, may run deep in the Akan, the country's dominant ethnic grouping. The fish and chip corner shop has disappeared, but its demise may not be due to the tandoori craze, but rather to an aversion to greasy food in a health-conscious society. Following very bad stockmarkets in recent years, Irish investors are typified by strong aversion to risk and an almost umbilical attachment to capital guarantees. Moments of pleasantness elicit a desire for more, moments of unpleasantness give rise to aversion, and moments of neutrality are opportunities to fall asleep. When he was a schoolboy at an insufferable snob establishment on the south coast of England, George Orwell developed a strong aversion to all things Scottish. Those with an aversion to sickly sentiment should look away now. His neck size doubtlessly contributed to his aversion for neckties of any kind, and from age 50 onward, Brahms wore the collarless shirt of a hunter. He is the antithesis of a technocratic, machine politician of the kind many people now have an aversion to. Forester soon took an aversion to the game of goff, and recollected Scotch reels with less contempt. Among the possibilities Paris and Lille were considered, but were rejected due to aversion to the French. Likewise, individuals in a society often have different levels of risk aversion. In some parts of the world, this aversion to political involvement is no longer widely held. Waugh soon overcame his initial aversion to Lancing, settled in and established his reputation as an aesthete. It was during the Song dynasty that Han Chinese developed an aversion to dairy products and abandoned the dairy foods introduced earlier. Clarkson, who continually moaned about his aversion to manual labour, simply threw most of his items into the Transit carelessly. The prevailing mood of the Soviet leadership at the time of Brezhnev's death in 1982 was one of aversion to change. The aversion to yellow light, or xanthophobia, that loggerhead hatchlings show sets them apart from other sea turtle species. Show More Sentences You could, but the food aversion therapy bills would far outweigh any short-term nutritional value. My last suggestion and possibly the most effective is 'sound aversion therapy. Being hypnotised and given aversion therapy seemed a painless way to break my habit. The affection is unlike anthropophobia, because this is characterized by dislike of men, and decided aversion to sexual intercourse. John Doe's old age and stubborn aversion to new ideas make him a curmudgeon of a candidate. There was also the aversion of powerful naturalists such as Georges Cuvier to transformism or excessive variability within species. This aversion to the glitz was not his only sin against form. In some respects, food neophobia, or the aversion to trying new foods, is similar to child temperament or personality. He also developed hyperacusis which meant he had an extreme aversion and hypersensitivity to sounds that are generally not an issue to others. Offenders should be booked in for penny-pincher aversion drinking therapy session with Norris from Coronation Street. After the night of the performance, video documentation of aversion therapy as practiced in the past is played in the gallery in the presence of the now empty chair. Stanley Kubrick's 1971 classic, set in a futuristic Britain where charismatic delinquent Malcolm McDowell volunteers for experimental aversion therapy which goes awry. When he is finally arrested, he is subjected to a sinister form of aversion therapy that brainwashes him into being physically unable to use violence. So transcultural poetics has an amorphousness about it that is also about a dynamicity and aversion to coerce frameworks of reading into hierarchical value systems. Hence we may see the weakness and absurdity of that kind of jealousy and aversion which seems to subsist between the landward and manufacturing classes of people. In Germany, where since the end of World War II there has been a strong aversion to nationalistic celebration of the past, such tones have disappeared from German textbooks. Coupled with said customer's malparkage in the handicapped zone right in front of the door, this will usually create an atmosphere of tense, suspect aversion. Of special interest are studies showing that Toxoplasma-infected rats become less neophobic, leading to the diminution of their natural aversion to the odor of cats. Examples from Classical Literature The world is turning round and over and back to that one previous historical era when the aversion to childbearing was widespread. He was put into the squad of Jean Macquart, against whom he had at first an aversion. I am an ill-favored Spanish grandee, for whom she feels an aversion to which she will not confess. Man comes into the world having implanted in him ineradicably the desire of happiness and aversion from pain. Then I fell back on a theory of my own, to the effect that the ouananiche have an aversion to red, and prefer yellow and brown. She condoned his blasphemies concerning the priests because of his aversion towards the deicide race. Elsmere's irrationality was an aversion to doctors, from the point of view of his own ailments. To this MAA MAA I had a particular aversion, and always hated to see her come on board. The sufferings of the Tirolese on this occasion doubtless tended to confirm them in their aversion for the Lutheran League. For Mrs. toner the light-giver he knew that he had conceived a rooted aversion. Did these Yankee ignoramuses suppose he did not share their aversion from the gaberdine or the three brass balls? Against man himself and the maleness that is his by natural right, many are filled with hottest distrust and aversion. An anthropometric estimate of the man fails to reveal any reason for the distinction of my aversion. But you told me you had an unconquerable aversion to the notion of seeking a divorce. His harebrained manner rendered him insupportable to me, and my coldness drew upon me his aversion. Many of the farmers were vegetarians and most of them had a Hebraic aversion to pork. She could not tell the rector of her aversion to Manston, and of her unquenched love for Edward. Goethe's aversion to dogs, already alluded to, seems to have been based chiefly upon their noisiness at night. You may call me a spiritualist, if you like, for I have no reverence for or aversion to names. Or was it merely the usual aversion to being identified with abnormality? Show More Sentences I then took cloves of garlic, though with a great aversion, both from the taste and smell. She lost for a moment the aversion she felt at the touch of tesla's hand. It is best, as Mrs. malaprop says, to begin with a little aversion. She had an aversion to publicity that became really a mannerism. Of course she had contracted for him a most unconquerable aversion! This reminds us of the French aversion to uttering their mort. Now, sir, if we apply this to your modest aversion to panegyric, how reasonable will your fears of me appear! Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. Abraham also evinced his characteristic aversion of idolatry. It flees from men, knowing that they regard it with aversion. He never talked to her much, but he looked at her a good deal, and she felt sure that he did not regard her with aversion. The aversion with which many persons regarded him was partly the result of his own character and deportment, and partly an inheritance. The involuntary look of horror, fright and aversion, with which the girl regarded him, did not escape his eye. She passed the day and the evening in the parlor, vaguely conscious of a strange feeling of aversion to going back to her own room. At university, he played the balalaika and thought he might like to have a go at creative writing, despite his aversion to essays. As to this odious Solmes, I wonder not at your aversion to him. How can one like and have an aversion to a person at the same time? But what can be said in the case of an aversion so perfectly sincere? If you had held your aversion, it would have been complied with. This was because of an aversion on Harley Kennan's part against renaming a named thing. Show More Sentences Of course,' replied the uncle, with a hardly suppressed grimace, resulting from his deep aversion to both the proposed visitors. What distresses him is to see that you have an aversion for him. Such men were paid off in full, litigation being the speculator's aversion. It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. Thus Haller spoke to me of Petrarch, mentioning Rousseau with aversion. It is in vain to combat the prejudice of splenetic aversion. She could easily sympathize with periwinkle in his aversion for her. His aversion to the sound of the brook can, therefore, come from no conscious knowledge of a portending catastrophe in the dream. Chinese leaders and strategic thinkers often talk of China's aversion to the disorderliness of democracy. Never once in their dialogues did I hear a syllable of regret at the hospitality they had extended to me, or of suspicion of, or aversion to, myself. He had no hope that had not long been my despair, no aversion that I had not accepted among the more or less comfortable conditions of the universe. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of aversion? Words that rhyme with aversion What is the plural of aversion? What is the adverb for aversion? What is the adjective for aversion? What is the noun for aversion? Translations for aversion Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words averse Avers avers Averroist Averroism averring aversions aversive aversiveness avert avertable averted 8-letter Words Starting With a av ave aver avers aversi aversio