Sentence examples for a certain revulsion toward from inspiring English sources

If a certain revulsion toward fat has characterized American life for more than 110 years, it is not so surprising that there is more than a little dissembling in selling plus-size clothing.

Such defiance, combined with a certain revulsion against the unrelenting moral crusade, led the secular government in April 1498 to turn against Savonarola.

Noonan notes, in his history of bribery, that while some amount of corrupt behavior may be a constant feature across cultures and across historical epochs, a certain moral revulsion toward corruption is just as common: even in nations where bribery is part of daily life it tends to be publicly frowned upon, and is almost always at least technically illegal.

His narrator dwells on their bodies - more accurately, parts of their bodies: on legs, with appreciation; on breasts - often bloodied, often of dead or seemingly dead women - with a certain critical revulsion, a casual objectification.

Her stories convey a hostility, even a revulsion, toward figures of masculine authority.

His published works show a certain tendency toward repetition.

Like most producers, Mr. Fields has a certain ambivalence toward scripts.

Mr. Caamano said that California's air pollution problems in the 1970s instilled in him a deep revulsion toward internal combustion that oriented him toward electric drive.

Quist drew national attention for his candidacy by setting aside the accumulating scandals around Donald Trump and focussing on a deeply felt revulsion toward Republican plans to gut public support for health insurance.

Another is that we have an irrational revulsion toward obese people.

Like many punk-influenced bands, Agnostic Front and Cro-Mags had an instinctive revulsion toward mainstream politics.