Sentence examples for bit of repulsion from inspiring English sources

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Then there is this bit of repulsion -- it has been widely reported that Mugabe dined on a baby elephant at his 91st birthday bash in February of this year.

The first time, seeing it by myself, I made mental notes of what I noticed: a bit of Repulsion, Adrian Lyne-style over the top sexuality, the cold white light of Kubrick, and the difficulty of writing dialogue that isn't risible between judge and judgee in a reality TV world.

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At a certain point the story of "Swan Lake" grafted itself onto a script called "The Understudy," by Andres Heinz, which was, Mr. Aronofsky said, "set in the Off Broadway theater world and was kind of a combination of 'The Double' and 'All About Eve,' with a little bit of Polanski's 'Repulsion' in there too".

Hall himself was no problem, weaving quite a bit of fancy teacher talk into his script but never going for very long without one of his trademark growls of repulsion at the state of American politics, the sort of thing that will make even the most somnolent student sit up straight in the lecture hall.

Might it be displaced by a sort of repulsion?

"That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion," by Rachel Herz.

The director of "Repulsion," "Rosemary's Baby," and "Macbeth" long ago put away his knives.

Wariness begins to shift in a strange dance of repulsion and attraction, over which the shadow of armageddon looms.

Dickens had this wonderful phrase, "the attraction of repulsion," meaning that something is so awful you can't stop watching.

Jaroussky himself is well aware of what he describes as its "element of repulsion".

THAT'S DISGUSTING: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion, by Rachel Herz (Norton, $26.95).

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