He seems both attracted and repulsed by the exoticized version of her that he imagines. |
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Apparently, bygones haven't been gone by for long enough yet, and the attempt was repulsed. |
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Like rubbernecking at the scene of a fatal accident, I am repulsed yet, at the same time, I cannot seem to pull my eyes away. |
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Robinson left the door to lean over the table, apparently not as repulsed by the gory mess as his partner clearly was. |
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If you appear stiff, reserved, timid and insecure, they will feel repulsed. |
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His point was that Bourbons would take any votes they could get, but they were socially repulsed by the poor, both African American and white. |
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They'll see the yucky black emptiness inside, and they'll be repulsed and run away. |
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Unlike Estonians and Latvians, Lithuanian tribes united and repulsed the German crusaders. |
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Lotus had been repulsed when the poor fool approached her to grab her colorful robe. |
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I was impatient with her politics and repulsed by her unevolved narcissism. |
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Indeed, Catherine is repulsed by David's African stories, and her hysterical outburst against them is imbued with racist assumptions. |
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I'm sure Straw Dogs is rather unpopular with the feminist community, and I find myself repulsed by the film for the same reason. |
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I have seen your intended involved in numerous situations that have repulsed me and that are too shocking for me to relate on paper. |
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Oh how it so repulsed her, her father tee-heeing ever so loudly in the room next to hers. |
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Every Zulu thrust was repulsed by soldiers literally fighting for their lives. |
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She was not flattered by Mr. Elton's confession, only repulsed at this inferior man daring to address the fine Miss Woodhouse in such a manner. |
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In the end, it's the old contradictory chestnut of being both repulsed and attracted simultaneously that keeps you hooked. |
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Giamatti doesn't want any part of the carousing, mostly because he thinks it will lead to more rejection, but he pretends he's morally repulsed. |
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One is the audience of people who are obviously repulsed by these sort of images and people meant to be scared by it and that's the reason they're putting this tape up. |
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The case has gripped and repulsed the nation in equal measure. |
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The unsupported troops who had achieved the break in the Union gun line were mostly killed or captured, and the attack decisively and bloodily repulsed. |
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For a while, however, most Americans seemed repulsed by what their country had become during the war, and refused to have anything to do with Wilson's messianic world agenda. |
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It is nature's twilight zone, a place that has repulsed all human efforts to mine or farm it, or denude it with herds of cattle or flocks of sheep. |
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Even the criminal fraternity must be repulsed by this crime and must be setting their minds to exposing the person who did this as soon as possible. |
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You find yourself reading, impressed, entertained, identifying, yet vaguely repulsed and apprehensive for him. |
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It is not at all difficult to reject many of the criticisms of globalisation that have recently been made, and it is right that rejectable points should be repulsed. |
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Then I asked them each to pick out one painting that he or she couldn't stand and tell me what it was about the picture that repelled or repulsed him or her. |
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We've become so disappointed with, and repulsed by, the agenda-driven reporting of most of the paper's sciolist columnists that we've cancelled our subscription. |
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On 13 May, the divisional front was bombarded and German infantry attacks were repulsed. |
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Attacks further away were repulsed by artillery and small arms fire, except at Beauchamps. |
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At Amiens, the Germans were repulsed several times by French artillery fire. |
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This resulted in the second Mongol invasion of Burma in 1300, which was repulsed by Myinsaing. |
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The Union repulsed Confederate incursions into New Mexico in 1862, and the exiled Arizona government withdrew into Texas. |
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A statue in Winchester celebrates the powerful King Alfred, who repulsed the Vikings and stabilised the region in the 9th century. |
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The Belgae attacked over the river, but were repulsed after a fierce battle. |
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A Spanish attack in 1614 was repulsed by two shots fired from the incomplete Castle Islands Fortifications manned by Bermudian Militiamen. |
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The Dacians and their allies were repulsed after two battles in Moesia, at Nicopolis ad Istrum and Adamclisi. |
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Beginning in 162 and continuing until 165, an invasion of Chatti and Chauci in the provinces of Raetia and Germania Superior was repulsed. |
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The Japanese launched several offensives during the month, which were repulsed. |
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The Portuguese repulsed their attack and the Dutch never tried to conquer Macau again. |
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On November 11, Wilkinson's rear guard, numbering 2,500, attacked Morrison's force of 800 at Crysler's Farm and was repulsed with heavy losses. |
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After the Americans repulsed Percy's forces, the British established a military presence of up to 200 Marines at Pensacola. |
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Gods marry giantesses but giants' attempts to couple with goddesses are repulsed. |
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While William was in Normandy, a former ally, Eustace, the Count of Boulogne, invaded at Dover but was repulsed. |
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Francis attempted to invade England in the summer of 1545, but reached only the Isle of Wight before being repulsed. |
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However, the Criollos militias and colonial army eventually repulsed the British. |
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The Republican army repulsed the Austrians, Prussians, British, and Spanish. |
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He also took part in an expedition to take back Corsica from the British, but the French were repulsed by the British Royal Navy. |
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During this time, Japan launched its first attack against Changsha, a strategically important Chinese city, but was repulsed by late September. |
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In March, the Japanese 11th army attacked the headquarters of the Chinese 19th army but was repulsed during Battle of Shanggao. |
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By January, the offensive had been repulsed with no strategic objectives fulfilled. |
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On 15 September 1940, a large daylight attack against London was repulsed with significant German losses. |
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The British were in danger of a rout, but faulty American decisions resulted in Washington being repulsed with heavy losses. |
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On 15 September, two massive waves of German attacks were decisively repulsed by the RAF by deploying every aircraft in 11 Group. |
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The attack was repulsed using tank fire and massed artillery rockets, destroying or disabling every Iraqi tank in the assault. |
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Mohammed Abdullah Hassan's Dervish State successfully repulsed the British Empire four times and forced it to retreat to the coastal region. |
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He repulsed the British in four expeditions and had relations with the Central Powers of the Ottomans and the Germans. |
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On October 7, a British reconnaissance in force against the American lines was repulsed with heavy losses. |
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Washington launched a surprise attack on Howe's garrison on October 4, which was eventually repulsed. |
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Around 902, an attack on Anglesey by the Danes of Dublin under Ingimundr was repulsed. |
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The 16th RWF, which had fallen behind the creeping barrage, were met with determined German resistance which repulsed two assaults. |
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The Germans made repeated attempts to push back the British and a big attack was repulsed on 9 May. |
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The next day, further elements of the brigade crossed, securing a further bridgehead and repulsed more German attacks. |
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Poelcappelle was captured but the attack at the junction between the 34th and 35th divisions was repulsed. |
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Following the Roman withdrawal, Irish raids and invasions were repulsed, supposedly by the forces under a northerner named Cunedda. |
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In 860, Charles the Bald invaded Charles of Burgundy's Kingdom but was repulsed. |
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German attacks were made from the north of Arras to reach the Scarpe but were eventually repulsed by X Corps. |
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On 19 May, after receiving reinforcements, de Gaulle attacked again and was repulsed with the loss of 80 of 155 vehicles. |
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The attacks were repulsed and some German tanks were reported to have been destroyed. |
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In the east, the 1st Rifle Brigade and parties of the QVR on the outer ramparts and the Marck and Calais canals repulsed a determined attack. |
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In 1814, one of these raids burned the capital, Washington, although the Americans subsequently repulsed British attempts to invade New England and capture Baltimore. |
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The Battle of Signal Hill was fought in Newfoundland in 1762, when a French force landed and tried to occupy the island, only to be repulsed by the British. |
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The Battle of Signal Hill took place in Newfoundland in 1762 when a French force landed and tried to occupy the island, only to be repulsed by the British. |
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Success was gained among the Wolofs, but repulsed by the Serers. |
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The Serbs and the Greeks repulsed single attacks, but when the Greek army invaded Bulgaria together with an unprovoked Romanian intervention in the back, Bulgaria collapsed. |
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The following year British forces captured Havana and Manila, the western and eastern capitals of the Spanish Empire, and repulsed a Spanish invasion of Portugal. |
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Whilst undergoing construction, this was attacked by a French force which had fought its way over Culver Down from Whitecliff Bay, resulting in the French being repulsed. |
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Irvin McDowell on the Confederate forces near Washington was repulsed. |
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The postponement coincided with rumours that there had been an attempt to land on British shores on or about 7 September, which had been repulsed with large German casualties. |
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The 4th Seaforth and the 1st Black Watch managed to hold on, despite attacks at Arques la Bataille and Martigny, where the artillery repulsed several German advances. |
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On 22 May, when the attack had been repulsed, Rundstedt ordered that the situation at Arras must be restored before Panzergruppe von Kleist moved on Boulogne and Calais. |
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Some of the forward pillboxes were undamaged and the garrisons repulsed the crossing attempts of the 2nd Panzer Division and 10th Panzer Division. |
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According to English report, the groups commanded by the Earls of Huntly and Crawford and Erroll, totalling 6000 men, engaged Lord Howard and were repulsed and mostly slain. |
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The Russians counterattacked on 25 October in what became the Battle of Balaclava and were repulsed, but at the cost of seriously depleting the British Army forces. |
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In the undecided Battle of Tornow on 25 September, a Swedish army repulsed six assaults by a Prussian army but did not push on Berlin following the Battle of Fehrbellin. |
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In June he tried to seize Charleston, South Carolina, the leading port in the South, but the attack failed as the naval force was repulsed by the Patriot forts. |
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By late May 1944, the Soviets had liberated Crimea, largely expelled Axis forces from Ukraine, and made incursions into Romania, which were repulsed by the Axis troops. |
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The first attempt by General Lorencez was repulsed by the forces of General Ignacio Zaragoza at Puebla on 5 May 1862, the first defeat of a French Army since Waterloo. |
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Somerset was appointed Governor of Calais and was dispatched to take over the vital fortress on the French coast, but his attempts to evict Warwick were easily repulsed. |
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They repulsed an American revolutionary invasion in 1776, but in 1777 a British invasion army was captured in New York, encouraging France to enter the war. |
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Their attacks were not properly coordinated and were repulsed. |
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