In the bathroom, she refuses Shelly's reciprocal offer of sex, and is completely uninterested – if not repulsed – by the young men who approach her and Davina on their night out, instead preferring to track her own reflection in the club's mirrored walls.
If you're at all repulsed by "Repulsion," then you're clearly squeamish around blood.
Sure, it was good to have someone to talk to in those early days, someone who I wasn't worried would be scared if I told him I was still struggling, or repulsed if I let him peer into the cesspool of insanity in my head.
And yet, as Deen pointed out, millions of Britons protested against the war in Iraq and so, even if one is repulsed by the precise tone of the protest, it is hard to claim that the protestors are representing an extreme point of view.
But Lawson the novelist must find a way to hold his readers' interest, even if they are repulsed by, for example, Max and Jonny's ironic bellowing of Pulp's "Common People" (their party piece), or snide Simon's sexual rejection of Tash in favour of internet porn, or the low-level but insistent racism they all display in the company of Monifa, the black wife of a local venture capitalist.
If you are repulsed by spiders, you don,t always have to kill them.
As usual, try not to seem creepy or desperate - even music's biggest egos might be repulsed if you're too fawning.
If you're repulsed by the thought of cleaning a toilet, you'll want to have everything you need ready to go beforehand so the process is as quick as possible.
At first, it doesn't seem there's much wrong with Gramma: we wonder if it's just youth being repulsed by age, if she's just a sad old lady, "a fat slug wearing rubber pants and diapers under her flannel nightgown, her face runneled with cracks and wrinkles, her eyes empty and blind – faded blue irises floating atop yellowed corneas".
