While fending off his advances was tedious and his talk of his 'banana' was both repulsive and amusing, I did at least learn a bit about him.
His experience of seeing the man have a seizure confirmed his perspective that "patients were both repulsive and intriguing; but it was impossible to push away the thought that they, the patients, belonged to another class or species, separate from us".
A hack who a clever friend of mine refers to as "The Tool's Tool" (as George Orwell was recently crowned "The Writer's Writer") once wrote an account of participating in a French stag hunt which was both repulsive and risible, straight out of a Craig Brown parody of some appalling ponce.
(There is something of Bear in 12 Years a Slave, when Michael Fassbender chases Chiwetel Ejiofor around a pigsty in a sequence that's both repulsive and deviously playful).
Thus, a triple interaction can be both repulsive and attractive: attractive, when atoms i, k, p stay nearly along a line; repulsive, when these atoms form an acute or right-angled triangle [6].
Creations that are full of a strange eroticism plagued with visions of the "other," visions which are both repulsive and seductive.
A cigar is many things: a symbol either of congratulation or of luxurious excess and the privilege of power; a capstone to an evening of manly pursuits; an unmistakable assault of the senses that is both attractive and repulsive, as well as decadent, overindulgent and a little unhealthy.
Henry Langston's report in our new Stardust and Moonbeams issue from the front line of the English Defence League's recent nationwide tour is both interesting and repulsive.
And so on, and on, for five pages, until we reach the climax, which by now is both longed-for and repulsive, when she pours ammonia down his throat.
Dubow has created a woman who is both mysteriously appealing and coldly repulsive.
