Sentence examples for great repugnance from inspiring English sources

At the same time he could not "consider... without great repugnance", as he said, that she chose another husband.

Here was the bully in full repugnance.

On the other hand, I think that the real artistic middlebrow is ubiquitous and central and that contempt for it is tantamount to (and as empty as) an adolescent repugnance for the "bourgeois". Many of the greatest novels are middlebrow.

After those shifts in the perceptions of the Great War – intense grief with some manner of acceptance, and then repugnance – another war began, and reshaped memories of the earlier war all over again.

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

Arendt remarked: "It is of great political interest to know how long it takes an average person to overcome his innate repugnance toward crime, and what exactly happens to him once he has reached that point … Yes, he had a conscience, and his conscience functioned in the expected way for about four weeks, whereupon it began to function the other way around".

Whether repugnance really offers wisdom depends, of course, on what you find repugnant.

Leprosy often elicits repugnance.

Repugnance as a constraint on markets.

To have dealt savage and wounding blows to the two greatest Americans of his day has seemed a doubtful triumph, and historians, when required to mention Callender, do so with repugnance.

No: he had a deeper repugnance to Nazism than that.