Sentence examples for natural repugnance from inspiring English sources

In "Judaism in Music," an essay Wagner published under a pseudonym in 1850, he wrote of "our natural repugnance against the Jewish nature".

In France Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689 1755) argued that natural laws were presocial and superior to those of religion and the state, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 78) postulated a savage who was virtuous in isolation and actuated by two principles "prior to reason": self-preservation and compassion (innate repugnance to the sufferings of others).

They have both made something of a fetish of natural light, and both have an almost visceral repugnance toward frivolity and commercialism.

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

In a 1998 essay titled "The Wisdom of Repugnance," he termed cloning "a major violation of our given nature" because for people to clone themselves and live for ever would shatter the natural link between reproduction and death.

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

Leprosy often elicits repugnance.

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

That is why, he added, "mere repugnance is not enough".

All other forms of food elicited a strong emotional repugnance.

Nigel Farage on Thursday unveiled a poster of unprecedented repugnance.