The indignities befalling the disgraced television host Jimmy Savile reflect a broad popular revulsion — coupled with an equally profound sense of betrayal — at the widening accusations that he abused underage girls and boys over decades, taking advantage of his position as a celebrity entertainer and philanthropist.
The movement amplified into a broad movement of revulsion against the oppressive theocratic regime, unifying the different strands of opposition under the umbrella of the Green Wave (Mowj-e-Sabz), a genuinely popular and national democratic movement which has captured the the hopes of millions of freedom-loving Iranians and the imagination of the world.
It was, in part, a reaction to Lord Ashcroft's power in the country that helped Dean Barrow to his landslide victory in the elections last year, on a broader wave of revulsion at the previous administration's fiscal incompetence and corruption.
The army, however, has always been carefully attuned to public opinion, and Tuesday's attack provoked a remarkably swift, broad and emphatic outpouring of revulsion and anger.
In short, today's revulsion at waterboarding is broad but fragile.
WEEK IN REVIEW, PAGE 13 NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Today's revulsion at waterboarding is broad, but it feels an inch deep.
The revulsion against Trump is so broad and deep, that we have a good shot at repairing the several elements that the Republicans have sought to destroy.
The media saturation that follows turns the likes of Adam Lanza and James Holmes into representatives of the much broader issue of gun violence, while prompting revulsion over the scope of the problem.
Taken alongside – just off the top of my head – the broad mainstream rejection of GamerGate's misogynist subterfuge, last week's near-universal revulsion at the harassment of ESPN reporter Cari Champion, this week's wicked trolling of accused serial rapist Bill Cosby, and the still resounding power of #YesAllWomen, I'm wondering if women's safety isn't having a moment right now.
The Vatican went so far as to call the execution "tragic" — echoing expressions of revulsion by Muslim leaders, both in the West and in the broader Islamic world.
