The books aroused a revulsion in Elliot.
In this seminal film, popular cliches of the horror flick were newly minted, most famously the young estate agent arousing fear and revulsion at a remote Transylvanian inn by announcing he's there to visit Dracula.
It's tempting to say that Pollock has set loose a crew of grotesques — but grotesques, for all their twisted absurdities, are still capable of arousing sympathy amid revulsion, and "The Devil All the Time" is a darker book than that.
Labov suggests that the meaning of these sounds would be entirely lost without reference to middle-class norms and are used as a deliberate way of arousing 'disgust and revulsion among those committed to the "good" standards of middle class society' (324).
Books like this are in danger of becoming freak shows in themselves, arousing in the reader the wonder and revulsion from which the commercial exhibitors of human prodigies - monster-mongers - profit.
Historian Robert Paxton, the author of the seminal 2004 book Anatomy of Fascism, wrote that skinheads could "become functional equivalents of Hitler's SA and Mussolini's squadristi only if they aroused support instead of revulsion".
"It's inherently arousing".
I found her sulks arousing.
