"We represent the disgusting life we have here.
DON'T SMOKE It is a filthy, disgusting, life-shortening, cancer-causing habit.
Marshall had been employed by the British Embassy in Moscow for a year, and according to his story, life at the Embassy was unvearable to him and, being disgusted with life at the Embassy he became interested in the Russians and impressed by their ideals.
Cook walked off at The Oval looking faintly disgusted with life.
Carruthers in The Riddle of the Sands (1903) is half out of his mind with boredom; John Buchan's Hannay begins The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) "pretty well disgusted with life"; the war has yet to begin.
Buchan's contribution to this "dime novel" scenario was to create in his protagonist, Richard Hannay, an appealing antihero, both cool and brave, but also "pretty well disgusted with life" who, caught up in a high-octane international drama, has the resource, intelligence and daring to thwart a naked foreign attempt to drag Britain into war.
Their creation of a grave for such a large host would be impressive enough, but it is just the beginning of a remarkable, if disgusting, life history story.
"Christianity was, from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in 'another' or 'better' life," he wrote in "The Birth of Tragedy".
Hannah Jane Davies 9pm, Channel 5 At the age of almost 80, Moors murderer Ian Brady has led, as prisoner-turned-journalist John McVicar says, "a horrible, disgusting, degraded life".
Eliot was disgusted by modern life, period.
