Sentence examples for a revulsion for from inspiring English sources

We may disagree about waterboarding terror suspects, but almost everyone shares a revulsion for genocide, the use of poison gas or the torture of children.

It shows a revulsion for the excesses of the art market, and a turn away from the creation of objects for that market.

She suggested a visit to her organization's Web site to read the testimonials of young women expressing a revulsion for fur.

My own mother sustained such a revulsion for the written word it was as if she had read Molly Bloom in a secret incarnation and had to do atonement for it.

One part of this link is obvious: the great welfare states of Europe emerged as part of a revulsion for war on the part of an exhausted and ravaged continent after 1945.

As a result, millions of British children may be readied for the world of work – and perhaps inculcated with a revulsion for benefit dependency – at Britain's most ideologically explicit theme park.

But mellowness is a relative concept in a man who cherishes a withering revulsion for any upstart with the temerity to beat him.

Many of the most shocking chapters are set in Poliakov's adopted country, France, where, by the nineteenth century, hatred of Jews was a proxy for a generalized revulsion for modernity, secularism, and republican values.

This was a relief after the food-smeared "Changeling" of the previous evening, which had left me with a distaste for most edibles and a violent revulsion for all things that arrive on a dessert trolley.

Standing in the water, she feels a passionate revulsion for her guests, and suddenly, dimly, remembers a party at Tim Dashwood's.

Aaronsohn and his fellow agents felt a similar revulsion for their Arab neighbours in Palestine.