Sentence examples for feeling of repugnance from inspiring English sources

"We shed light on the quality of Bolton already in the past, and we do not hide our feeling of repugnance toward him," Kim said Wednesday.

After the war, Garfield became a proponent of black suffrage, though he admitted that the idea of African Americans as political equals with whites gave him "a strong feeling of repugnance".

Bolton was singled out in the North Korean statements, which noted "our feeling of repugnance toward him" and took issue with his recent comments that the U.S. could pursue a "Libyan model" in its dealings with Pyongyang.

Like many of our subconscious fears, such feelings of repugnance are revealed in the stories we tell.

Capital punishment is supposed to be applied only to the most heinous crimes, but it is precisely those cases which, because of the strong feelings of repugnance they evoke, most thoroughly challenge the detached judgment of all participants in the legal process — police, prosecutors, judges, and juries.

It is, in fact, the core of what we call Western art: inducing the audience to overcome feelings of repugnance or derision (i.e., prejudices or settled moral values) and enter into sympathy with people who, despite (or even because of) their virtues, make themselves into monsters (in tragedy) or asses (in comedy).

(And merely offending the moral sensitivities of others does not count as harm. Especially since others often confuse feelings of repugnance with feelings of moral disapprobation).

I have to confess once again to feelings of moral repugnance, which are shared by the vast majority of my fellow citizens, when reading about E.T.A. and Batasuna as if their followers were heroes of democracy.

If morally neutral terminology is used for morally repugnant acts, it reduces the sense of repugnance.

I recognized with a thrill of repugnance an old red sweater of Ruth's, angora-fuzzy.

Mr. Roth spoke at a recent panel on the economics of repugnance at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative research organization in Washington.