Mistreatment of domestic animals like dogs and cats understandably evokes revulsion even from those who would never have them in their houses.
There's a psychological barrier one needs to scale in order to locate any real value or nourishment in a film fronted by a character who might evoke extreme revulsion in one and extreme sympathy in another.
In a statement written by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore, Asean said the videos and photographs "have evoked the revulsion of people throughout Southeast Asia and all over the world".
On the other hand, Edel, making "The Baader Meinhof Complex" with his pseudo-documentary style, remains not neutral but ambivalent: representing the Red Army Faction's violence as horrific, he wants to evoke viewers' moral revulsion; at the same time, he wants viewers to understand the film's events, including its violence, from the terrorists' perspective.
In the realm of scripted comedy there are few characters who evoke feelings of revulsion, and who also have as few redeeming qualities as Hannah.
These incidents are certainly horrific, but the revulsion they evoke seems more instinctual than rational.
Military roboticists are also eager to turn up the "creep factor" by exploiting the basic human fear of insects, as well as the phenomenon known as the "uncanny valley," where robots that appear and act almost (but not perfectly) lifelike evoke a deep-seated revulsion. .
The method of killing a human child -- one cannot even accurately say an entirely unborn human child -- proscribed by this statute is so horrible that the most clinical description of it evokes a shudder of revulsion.
The method of killing a human child ... proscribed by this statute is so horrible that the most clinical description of it evokes a shudder of revulsion".
And it is they, not the parties of the left, who are scaring the mainstream.The response of the political establishment to a tide of anti-European populism which draws on anti-immigrant feeling and antipathy towards Islam has mostly been to evoke the 1930s and hope for revulsion to take its course.
