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Sentence Examples But it is not moral revulsion, let alone newsworthiness, that is animating the news media. I went off into a day punctuated by involuntary shudders of revulsion as the sensations were recalled. A slicker actor would have cued revulsion in children, but here the icky inevitability of movie clinches had been thwarted. The latter term evokes a distant echo to disgust, a moral revulsion that verges on physical recoil. For many of us, food has become tied into cycles of guilt and pleasure, desire and revulsion. Stassy couldn't find the words to get her point across, so she let her sneer of revulsion and displeasure do the talking for her. Can revulsion be classified as an adaptive mechanism that prevents us from coming into contact with contaminants? A wave of revulsion washed through my body and mind as I sat, motionless, mere inches from him. My euphoria evaporated and was replaced by something closer to moral revulsion. Since the story centers on a disabled woman's body, revulsion is a culturally supported reaction. It came as a shock to me that not all men share this revulsion at body fat. As Ken surveyed my body, revulsion led my retreat into our kitchenette, where I politely excused myself. Now defendants in criminal cases often are charged with offences which would fill ordinary people with horror, disgust and revulsion. Instead, there are signs of growing public revulsion over assembly-line executions and rampant police brutality and corruption. Widespread public revulsion at the executions exacerbated a growing alienation from the British administration in Ireland. The prime minister's open display of contempt for democratic accountability has only deepened the revulsion felt towards him. The absence of skin, odour and blood means that many visitors are surprised that they do not feel instinctive revulsion. Gripped by a sense of revulsion at the ongoing murder campaign, several thousand heeded his call and took to the street outside City Hall. It is hard not to feel a certain revulsion for so detached and apparently inhuman an attitude to childbearing. I understand the impulse to focus one's moral revulsion on the perpetrators. Show More Sentences If labelling is to be effective, it is important that embarrassment, revulsion and even disgust be generated in the public mind. To some extent, the revulsion felt by blogging's first wave is based on this. But the shame and the revulsion, the eyes like a mourning shroud, would torment his mind. We should argue about how things are, not seek to win arguments with vacuous comparisons designed to evoke revulsion without thought. But I defy you to watch the film and not turn away, or at least feel genuine revulsion, at several points. At the same time, when she saw me on TV, her face hid a well-tempered revulsion. Her feelings of fear, anger, and revulsion brought the return of her hysteria and nausea crept into her throat. She raised her hand in front of her face and stared at it in shock and revulsion as she saw the drying blood there. This affects my entire perception of the city, filling me with disquiet, antipathy and even a certain revulsion. Despite its revulsion at the atrociousness of the law, the appeals court did not take the next logical step and void the law completely. Lilith walked with grace and ease down the short corridor, looking around in revulsion at the peeling mauve wallpaper and creaking old floor. The proximate causes of this revulsion against liberalism in Italy, Germany, and elsewhere are not far to seek. Do these schools have any idea of the feelings of revulsion a statement like that on their websites provokes? Even a short tour of the museum fills you with disgust and revulsion once you overcome your disbelief. Their fervent hope is that anger at chaos caused by the millennium bug could lead to revulsion powerful enough to prevent the digital ascendancy. It's a work fuelled by revulsion, by misanthropy in general, not specifically by homophobia. Many American middle-class women, for example, expressed their revulsion at what they saw as the dirty and uncivilized nature of Irish women. How can one responsibly teach writers who use the reader's revulsion and horror as necessary responses? The revulsion we still feel when women rather than men commit murders became revulsion squared. Tens of thousands attended rallies to express their revulsion at the one-sided conflict and the slaughter of thousands of Iraqis. Show More Sentences And he had, if not a revulsion towards the pagan priesthood, then a fear of them and their devotion to their heathen religion. She choked it down along with her revulsion, hoping for a clear head that would save her. I did indeed feel a certain admiration but it was mixed with revulsion that I was now implicated in blackmail just by knowing about it. The idea of the body as a barrier to the unreachable outside world is an interesting one, but we learn so little about Esther that sympathy turns finally to revulsion. All of them testified to the revulsion which they felt at hearing particular taped messages in the sequence put out by the respondents. It moves by fits and starts, through pangs of revulsion and flashes of revelation. All we can do is reiterate our revulsion at this senseless violence and our total condemnation of it. People feel utter desolation and revulsion at the prospect of this money being stolen from them. I express my indignation and revulsion after the string of attacks that has plunged the city of Jaipur into mourning. In part, moral revulsion motivates these underworld gumshoes, though it's also clear that killing children is bad for illicit business. We watched with revulsion and horror as the oppressive regime asserted itself over and over again, brutalizing the black population. About my replacement self, I feel only average levels of attachment and revulsion, inconsequence. But mellowness is a relative concept in a man who cherishes a withering revulsion for any upstart with the temerity to beat him. While most of us are all too willing to cuddle guinea pigs, rabbits, gerbils, pet mice and even ferrets, brown rats produce a reaction of almost universal revulsion. Doug stuck his tongue in her ear and Diana shuddered in revulsion. Amid the revulsion at the earlier horror of the clip, this became a mere background detail. Zarr's hair, his eyes, and some of his internal viscera remained with his bones prompting some of the terrified members of his party to retch with revulsion. I rolled my eyes and curled my upper lip in feigned revulsion. The blood and gore can cause revulsion even in the most hardy. He even uncovered, to his revulsion, a tiny lacy pink thong. Show More Sentences On the other hand, as the smell enters your body through your nose, there arise feelings of pleasure and delight or of disgust and revulsion. On the other hand, the ancient revulsion against emasculation, effeminacy, and males assuming, or forced into, the passive role of females is far less pervasive today. It is a seething, boiling, roiling, apoplectic revulsion at the very idea of unions. The row has become an outlet for wider revulsion, whose real target lies in the ground. Will Rachel gain admission to Fantasy Island or be booted off, or flee in revulsion? From observing the extraordinary cures effected by the aid of revulsion medical men have been borne away too much by an attachment to this mode of treatment. As a wave of revulsion spread across the internet, he began to backtrack. It's not just a fascinating overview of human paraphilias and the biology involved in our feelings of attraction and revulsion. By relying on his pen, he expressed his revulsion acerbically and mordantly at the way the body politic behaved. The end of the First World War saw a wave of proletarian revolutionary struggle across the globe, swelled by widespread revulsion at the historically unprecedented butchery of the interimperialist slaughter. Peter O'Toole was generally derided for trying to restore Jacobean blood and thunder to his 1980 performance of Macbeth, which had people fainting with laughter rather than horror and revulsion. There are plenty of other stories of that nature and, if nothing else, at least the revulsion of Blackpool's fans is not merely restricted to the Fylde coast. What is very important, though, it seems to me, is to tell it calmly and accurately – otherwise the reaction from readers will be revulsion and fear, which blocks the human impulse to help. That being said, it is easy to feel revulsion toward our leaders. That is why my group appeals to all sides of this House today to set aside party politics and unite for the prospects of peace, as much as we stand together in revulsion at acts of terrorism. The revulsion that followed last week's events, provides the impetus to unite everyone in support of democratic ideals in the fight against international terrorism. Overcoming his revulsion, Father began to preach. In Latin America, the most dramatic results of discrimination have an element of aporophobia, that is, revulsion and hatred for the poor. The statement I issued after the ghastly events of last Tuesday was couched in the strongest language I could find to express all of the revulsion felt by my colleagues and myself. If so, your revulsion disqualifies you as an impartial judge of the matter, since you're projecting your own childhood fears onto the phorbyphile. Show More Sentences One can only imagine the revulsion he felt upon entering this prison: the smell, the odors of desperation, hopelessness, the stone walls and dirt floors, combined with accumulated body sweat and other odors. Edwige's mother-in-law inspected young Odilon with revulsion. But what is perhaps more deeply evil and unforgiveable in these ads is their use of visual cues to trigger feelings of racial revulsion assumed to be latent a certain segment of the white electorate. From deep within this conflagration of tony, occasionally insightful, arch, pompous, mournful, supercilious, generous, salivating verbalism, the single consistent sound to emerge is a howl of revulsion. When he arrived in Paris, in the seventeen-forties, at the age of thirty, he was a deracinated looker-on, struggling with complex feelings of envy, fascination, revulsion, and rejection provoked by a self-absorbed élite. Memories of post-Katrina revulsion at incompetence were cued up. The discomfiture, perhaps even revulsion, in the Shah of Iran's eyes, when I asked him if there was torture in Iran, intensifies as I ask the question three times, implicitly not accepting his answers. I had hoped the huge revulsion caused by the Omagh bomb would force the splinter groups to give up. In November 1928, as the beneficiaries of this revulsion, the Liberals made a clean sweep of every seat on the borough council. Pacifism and revulsion with war were very popular sentiments in 1920s Britain. A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in the Parliament and the country, followed. They then go about a process of mass indoctrination and terror, defining the limits of human expression and forbidding the normal human revulsion to an anti-human system of oppression, injustice, and mendacity. He later died of his injuries. Since then the fire has found all sorts of fuel, from the Arab street's desire for democracy to its revulsion at doddering kleptocrats. An offender may be sentenced to life imprisonment where his crime has been committed under serious, offensive and degrading circumstances and has caused shock, revulsion, indignation and repugnance in the national community. While most would regard trash with revulsion, it is a source of living for Marjune, and his family and other people living at the adjacent dumpsite. In Britain public opinion was divided over the morality of the massacre, between those who saw it as having saved India from anarchy, and those who viewed it with revulsion. My friend Denis Robertson Sullivan recruited Kennedy to the SDP, with a common thread for both being revulsion at Labour centralism and illiberalism. She was struck with revulsion at the sight of the dead animal. Examples from Classical Literature The revulsion accentuated her enjoyment of the picturesque aspects of the scene. The revulsion of feeling, the unspeakable horror, the remorse, was more than I could bear. But, in revulsion from the previous idea of catastrophism, it undoubtedly was pushed much too far. A feeling of revulsion swept over her, combatting the first natural, womanly pride in the deed of a brave man. Suddenly, by an abrupt revulsion of ideas, the comicality of the whole thing struck him. Her people are an excitable, flaming people who may burst out in a spasmodic revulsion against their commercialization. Thus, one nineteenth-century cupper concluded, revulsion was only derivation at a distant point. But if he had defiled it, might not Hermione have been the subject of a great revulsion? That such a revulsion should occur in the nature of a gadabout and featherbrain like this girl, is not unnatural. The revulsion of feeling was so great that for a moment or two it seemed to unman him. He repented of his first revulsion, mooned at her feet, and happily drove her home. A permanent revulsion was operant in her, which intensified as time wore on. The like is true of the breakdown and redintegration of devout ritual after such a revulsion. But there wasn't anything in that recarnification and revulsion to tintype for me. His god appeared to be riven from him, and the revulsion in his mind was terrible. With a sudden revulsion of feeling and tactics, he determined to throw himself, at once, into the penitent and candid. And, as the revulsion of feeling set in, Petty set out for Yuma. In the revulsion of grief, he turned almost with resentment upon Hamish. In the first revulsion of feeling, I was perhaps unjust to my associates. To cloy or surfeit is to gratify to the point of revulsion or disgust. Show More Sentences Their features were scarce discernible, but there was a suggestion of grotesqueness about them that carried to her a feeling of revulsion. Had the apples of Sodom turned to ashes in my mouth, I could not have felt a more startling revulsion. His misery vanished, his feelings underwent a tremendous revulsion. But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. But when she heard herself called the child of a cheat and a swindler, the very monstrous unexpectedness of this caused in her a revulsion towards letting herself go. Blunt mere talking with extreme fluency and I even caught the individual words, but I could not in the revulsion of my feelings get hold of the sense. The revulsion caused by the story was one thing, but made a whole lot worse by seeing that one of our nincompoop judges thought this was only worth a very short jail sentence. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of revulsion? Words that rhyme with revulsion What is the plural of revulsion? What is the adjective for revulsion? What is the noun for revulsion? Translations for revulsion Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words revulsed revues revue revs revote revolving door revulsive rev up revved revved-up revving rew 9-letter Words Starting With r re rev revu revul revuls revulsi revulsio