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.
"It's an effort to tap into what's seen as a public revulsion against the privilege that executives enjoy, especially with one tied to the pharmaceutical industry," Professor Baker said.
That the revulsion against centralization is not in essence a revulsion against the Fifth Republic as such can be amply demonstrated by the fact that it is spread so widely over the world.
"Disgust makes me lucid," she says in a voice-over, and she experiences both her desires and her desirability with as much revulsion as fascination.
PLUSES -- Ms. Theron, like Hilary Swank in "Boys Don't Cry," all but disappears into the body and mind of her character, and she succeeds in eliciting as much compassion as revulsion for her character, a low-rent prostitute who starts murdering her clients.
Taking a different tack, Queen Elizabeth II stripped Robert Mugabe, the country's president for nearly 30 years, of his honorary knighthood as a "mark of revulsion" at the human rights abuses and "abject disregard" for democracy over which he is presiding, the British Foreign Office said Wednesday.
Queen Elizabeth II also stripped him of his honorary knighthood as "a mark of revulsion at the abuse of human rights and abject disregard for the democratic process in Zimbabwe".
A more controversial member of the Order was Robert Mugabe, whose honour was stripped by the Queen, on the advice of the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, on 25 June 2008 as "as a mark of revulsion at the abuse of human rights and abject disregard for the democratic process in Zimbabwe over which President Mugabe has presided".
Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe, was stripped of his honorary GCB status by the Queen, on the advice of the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, on 25 June 2008 "as a mark of revulsion at the abuse of human rights and abject disregard for the democratic process in Zimbabwe over which President Mugabe has presided".
Queen Elizabeth II stripped Ceausescu of his honorary knighthood "as a mark of revulsion at the abuse of human rights in Romania". King Olav V of Norway took away his honorary Grand Cross of St. Olav Order and, by action of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, the Romanian leader was no longer a Knight of the Elephant Order when he went before the firing squad.
