Sentence examples for complete revulsion from inspiring English sources

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I felt complete revulsion at the revelations that the Murdoch press was hacking into private mobile phones, including those of murder victims and British soldiers.

Americans have been ambivalent in different ways: a majority wanted the war, but not blindly and deliriously; then, as years passed, a majority wanted the war to end, but not in complete revulsion.

The stated rationale shifted over time -- from concerns about national security to code words, such as "suitability" -- but the point was always the same: government officials, federal and state, high and low, felt a complete revulsion toward homosexuals and wanted to purge the country of even the hint of homosexuality.

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Cameron repeatedly referred to "our utter revulsion at the chemical weapons attacks" – "Nobody disagrees about our revulsion at the use of chemical weapons" said an equally testy Miliband.

But revulsion over what happened is almost universal.

Popular revulsion over terrorism has made fatal violence politically unthinkable.

This revulsion was not, of course, complete.

As the film finished and the credits started to roll I, like most of the audience, sat in complete silence, partly in reverence, partly due to revulsion, but glad that a film of this nature had finally been made by a black director.

Just as critics are all too often inclined to review the budget or the reporting rather than the movie (as with the oblivious repudiations of "Heaven's Gate" and "Ishtar"), the stories of the production of "The Revenant," complete with the menace of frostbite and hypothermia and the revulsion of eating a raw fish and a raw bison liver, have been regarded as integral elements of the movie itself.

Is it not ironic and perhaps misguided to believe so strongly in the good influence of government, then in the next breath to express revulsion at the suggestion our government should have complete capacity to fulfill all of the duties of enforcing law?

I feel such revulsion for smoking now that I struggle to recognise the old me, the failed non-smoker, begging complete strangers outside pubs to buy a fag from them, grovelling around in my purse in the dark for 50p, kidding myself once more that it would be "just one", but knowing in my heart it wouldn't.

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