Sentence examples for a repugnance to from inspiring English sources

In the meantime, the knowledge of the Soviet-bloc countries' long-standing difficulties had given rise in many developing countries to a repugnance to Soviet planning methods, while the methods used in the developed noncommunist countries were felt to be not directly applicable, either.

Some therapists developed a repugnance to particular clients.

The expression was evil and yet unseeing, and though I did not feel that he was looking particularly at us, I felt a repugnance to going past him.

No: he had a deeper repugnance to Nazism than that.

It consists in a "transition from repugnance to fear, from fear to sympathy, and from sympathy itself to humility".

For example, his sister's Life recorded that Pascal had an almost obsessive repugnance to any expression of emotional attachment, which Gilberte attributed to his high regard for the virtue of modesty.

One result is that what in life would be an overwhelming reaction of repugnance to the enormity of a murder (never mind shock and grief) risks being foregone for the sake of more action, more excitement and another climax.

"Made some progress on the inaugural," he reported a few weeks later, "but still feel unusual repugnance to writing".

In the House of Commons last week, the Members approved a resolution which asked that the overwhelming local repugnance to recent events be made plain as pikestaff to the Commonwealth Prime Ministers when they meet here next month.

There is, however, a tactical advantage in applying the wisdom of repugnance to the stem-cell debate, in that it skirts the familiar theological argument that a manipulated egg is a human life.

Given that I was at the beauty parlor getting my gray roots dyed when I was looking at this magazine article, I needed to question my knee jerk repugnance to the invitation to attaining a perfect look of any kind.