Sentence examples for harsh aversion from inspiring English sources
The use of harsh aversion techniques, like electric shock or nausea-inducing drugs, to combat homosexual desires has largely disappeared.
Some cats (for example, Himalayans and Persians) can develop an aversion to the harsh feeling of the litter box.
FRANKFURT, July 12 — Germany, fearful of being the next major target for Islamic terrorists, is edging away from its deep aversion to intrusive and harsh enforcement tactics, provoking a storm of protest from those who recall the official brutality of Nazism and Communism in decades past.
Modulation of the innate mechanisms of facial perception by experience may facilitate the development of adultlike preferences for male faces: experiments have shown that if, among previously-seen faces, a facial feature coexists with a negative stimulus (e.g., a harsh personality), then the observer will develop an aversion for other faces with that feature (Jones et al. 2007).
James subjected his brother to what Benjamin Franklin later called"harsh and tyrannical treatment," eventually leading to the younger brother's "aversion to arbitrary Power".
But he disliked his brother ("I fancy his harsh and tyrannical treatment of me might be a means of impressing me with that aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to me through my whole life," he wrote years later) and, at seventeen, ran away to Philadelphia, a village of two thousand people that nonetheless dreamed of itself as a metropolis of tolerance.
James's "harsh and tyrannical Treatment," Franklin wrote, had served as "a means of impressing me with that Aversion to arbitrary Power that has stuck to me thro' my whole Life".
He has no aversion to a company's need to make profit, but "what started to wear was the harsh reality that all your day-to-day efforts are about making more profits.
