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Disgust is primarily an emotion of repulsion, and avoidance of repugnant and potentially harmful stimuli.
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And there it was, her expression: disappointed-with-a-hint-of-repulsion.
"I think the most powerful emotion is the one that teeters on the edge of repulsion and intrigue".
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.
But before it can touch, the magnets strengthen their resolve as they near their arch-nemesis, their object of repulsion.
It reminded me of "Repulsion," the Roman Polanski movie.
Nowadays, the audience squirmed in their seats, not out of repulsion, but out of mimicry.
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