Sentence examples for as revulsion from inspiring English sources

Campaigning against slavery began in the late 18th century as revulsion against the trade spread.

His support from Egyptian civic society could evaporate as revulsion grows at the bloodshed against Islamists and the military's crackdown on other dissenters.

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.

"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.

Even Condé Nast's stamina inspires revulsion as well as praise these days.

The Way Things Were invokes big political and social themes with little hint of nostalgia: the poor evoke revulsion as well as pity and their treatment by the (even relatively) wealthy begs belief in its insulting and casual cruelty.

The actor had previously appeared in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Revulsion", as well as the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes "The Die Is Cast" and "Sanctuary".

And if Obama can stare down the right on a subject as risky and dear to his constitutional heart as his revulsion against torture, maybe he can even stare down Wall Street and the health insurance industry.

But it is something that has become more apparent in recent days, as widespread revulsion over the image of a dead boy on a Turkish beach forced leaders to offer more support for those fleeing violence.

Mr. Coster at first emanates a bruised hostility as the haggard Roelf, but slowly the harsh lines in his face soften as his revulsion at the poverty of the squatter camp subsides into compassion for the men and women who "know what it is like to live without hope".

But that damp, English cold is going to permeate her life, as one by one her older sisters marry and leave home; as she says yes to the first proposal she gets, just to end her loneliness; as she becomes aware, to her great disgust, of the physical side of marriage and as her revulsion overwhelms anything else she may feel for her firstborn, Rose.