The corruption may be endemic here, but if there is any hope in the future, it would seem to lie in the revulsion of average Afghans like Mr. Farani, who, after seven years, is still refusing to pay.
As the escalating Israeli-Palestinian violence seemed to move to the brink of war today, Israelis of all political persuasions appeared united in revulsion at the mob killing of their soldiers, but divided as ever about what should be done about it.
If I had been watching the movie not as a journalist committed to reporting on it but as an ordinary viewer there for interest and pleasure, I'd have walked out of the theatre in revulsion and anger at the exploitation of pain and death for sheer sensationalism and entertainment.
A10 Israelis of all political persuasions appeared united in revulsion at the mob killing of their soldiers but divided over what should be done.
Many of the new Democrats had in fact been progressive Republicans just a few years earlier, having left the party in revulsion against the reactionary politics of their own senator, Joseph R. McCarthy, and in sympathy with postwar liberalizing forces like the growing civil rights movement.
Still, Max shrinks in revulsion, and during the rest of the vacation he vents his disgust with Vincent in ugly behavior that becomes comical after the two men find themselves trapped for hours aboard a boat stranded on a sandbar at low tide.
Decades of resistance to retiring the emblem, which has long been held up in the south as a symbol of regional pride and reverence for fallen Confederate soldiers, suddenly seemed to disappear this week in revulsion at pictures posted online of the alleged church killer, Dylann Roof, with the flag.
The baddest of the bad boys in popular culture today seem to be urban black males, a "gangsta" identity developed over several generations in revulsion against Southern segregationist images of black males as servile, docile, emasculated "Uncle Toms".
Where the "uncanny valley" causes observers to recoil in revulsion at hyper-real representations of humans – so nearly identical in appearance, yet so eerily unfamiliar in mannerism – Football Manager 2016's customisable touchline characters are potentially even more harrowing.
The smell of certain flowers is enough to make him faint in revulsion.
