Sentence examples for object of disgust from inspiring English sources
Admirers of the Catholic culture of Poland will assuredly be delighted by its success in making the unclothed human frame an object of disgust.
DAVID DENBY: As marketing forces plus the other awards, plus the year-end loading of quality has increased, they have become both more an obsession and more an object of disgust.
As I got out of the pool after another world record descent, I felt that my round belly was no longer an object of disgust to fellow holidaymakers, but possibly one of admiration.
Faye doesn't get the man in the end, and Betty has become an object of disgust to her new husband, who is furious at her for irrationally firing her long-term nanny when it will cause such disruption in her children's lives.
For instance, someone who feels disgusted almost always makes a gaping facial expression, withdraws slightly from the object of disgust, has a slight reduction in body temperature and heart rate, and feels a sense of nausea and the need to cleanse herself.
The HIV epidemic moved from an object of disgust to one of empathy.
It is their vulnerability and social positioning as morally inferior objects of disgust that makes gangs of abusers target them and professionals blame them.
She cites the work of the experimental psychologist Paul Rozin, who, after testing people's reactions to different disgusting substances, concluded that the core objects of disgust -- feces, spit and semen -- are all things that remind people of their own animality and decay.
But there is also considerable intercultural and interpersonal variation beyond these core objects of disgust, including in some better-studied cases cuisines, sexual behaviors, out-group members, and violations of social norms.
On the other, liberal journalists turned her family into an object of sexual disgust: inbred rednecks who had stumbled out of Deliverance.
Nonetheless, he said, he was "surrounded from birth with a definition of the Jew... as sufferer, the Jew as an object of ridicule, disgust, scorn, contempt, derision, of every heinous form of persecution and brutality".
