| It is vain to urge that truth will prevail, and that slander, when detected, recoils on the calumniator. |
| The pessimist recoils from this picture, and in his recoil there is, typically, an element of emotional shock. |
| There's a libertarian edge to Conservatism that recoils from the image of a Politburo having central control. |
| But the American military still recoils from getting involved in such conflicts and derides the worth of constabulary duties and nation building. |
| Albany recoils from the savage ethos in which his wife lives, foreseeing both her own destruction and that of the universe itself as a consequence of unbridled self-interest. |
| She recoils at the idea that she's simply lending her name to these products. |
