In Odd Girl Out, Laura Landon's resistance to the idea that she may be homosexual lies in her own concept of femininity rather than any repugnance for loving women.
On the other hand, I think that the real artistic middlebrow is ubiquitous and central — and that contempt for it is tantamount to (and as empty as) an adolescent repugnance for the "bourgeois".
On the other hand, I think that the real artistic middlebrow is ubiquitous and central and that contempt for it is tantamount to (and as empty as) an adolescent repugnance for the "bourgeois". Many of the greatest novels are middlebrow.
On the other hand, I think that the real artistic middlebrow is ubiquitous and central and that contempt for it is tantamount to (and as empty as) an adolescent repugnance for the "bourgeois".
A generation that had only seen the stained-wicker 70s in bits of old film felt an instinctive repugnance for the man.
Reviewing Roth's last book, The Dying Animal, Linda Grant noted: 'It is an unspoken rule of literary pages that women are not sent Roth for review... but it has now become apparent to many of Roth's admirers, both male and female, that there is a dark distaste for women, a repugnance that can only be described by the word misogyny.
Roth is no different from Saul Bellow, whose shallow portrayals of women display the condition of a man who is a product of his times, but it has by now become apparent to many of Roth's ardent admirers, both male and female (and I am a big cheerleader in the latter group), that there is in him a dark distaste for women, a repugnance that can only be described by the word misogyny.
This reductive diagnosis of Salinger's "condition" is accompanied by pages and pages of testimony about how his youthful arrogance (one friend said he dismissed "Dreiser through Hemingway" as "all inferior" writers) and disaffection with his parents' bourgeois world calcified, after the war, into a deep antipathy, even repugnance for most worldly things and ideas.
Leeches (phylum Annnelida, segmented worms) are regarded by some with a repugnance so intense as to preclude their consideration as objects for biological investigation.
Some therapists developed a repugnance to particular clients.
