It's an odd, disjunctive play that provokes more exasperation — possibly even repulsion — than emotional engagement.
There were many thoughts racing through my mind: disbelief, bone-chilling fear, repulsion and, ultimately, physical and emotional exhaustion.
The novel was regarded as a difficult work upon its release, and its experimental stylistic, structural, and thematic idiosyncrasies have often provoked emotional judgments from critics, ranging from fascination to repulsion.
Journalists, friends and political roadkill — a jocular Sam Donaldson, an emotional Ed Rollins, a pained Michael Dukakis — evince a mixture of reverence and repulsion, but "Boogie Man" is neither encomium nor hatchet job.
Emilie became the "May sun of a September life" and the inspiration for the character of Hedda Gabler, even if Ibsen himself contributed many of her characteristics with his fear of scandal and ridicule, his apparent repulsion with the reality of sex, and his yearning for an emotional freedom.
In the building, repulsion won.
Fascination and repulsion are not far apart.
And other noises of mild repulsion.
Polanski, the talented director of "Repulsion," "Chinatown," and "Macbeth," has often been a cruel joker, perverse, bloody, given to black humor and mordant ironies; now he returns to the physical and emotional wellsprings of his art (he escaped the Kraków ghetto when he was seven), viewing his origins from a perspective that can only be called humanist.
