Sentence examples for of physical disgust from inspiring English sources

And he was incapable of physical disgust.

Modern anti-Semitism, after all, is less a matter of physical disgust than a view of the rootless, cosmopolitan Jew who was seen as a political and cultural threat to a traditional society.

She felt what amounted to a kind of physical disgust for her big-nosed, dark-skinned husband, the gentle and tolerant Joseph Sandy Himes, who was the head of the Mechanical Department at the all-black Lincoln Institute.

More than physical disgust, Orwell is at pains to evoke a world of profound moral unease.

It is a philosophy which Mitchell continues to take to heart, expressing physical disgust at St Augustine, the American poet Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, the wife of Ted Hughes who took her own life, after it was suggested that her music was confessional.

This association of cleanliness with moral probity is further bound up with the now well-established link between moral disgust (eg, at unusual sexual practices) and physical disgust (eg, at handling dirty objects or eating polluted food).

If we don't cram ourselves into those claustrophobic standards of physical perfection, we're called disgusting, but if we do, we're weak and shallow.

Contempt has been conceptualized as signaling perceived moral violations of social hierarchy, whereas disgust would signal violations of physical purity.

An inmate gives Liao a "menu" of physical torments to choose from, ranging from the disgusting to the excruciating.

He sees the disgust evoked by such a scene as allied to notions of physical and religious purity.

Disgust, on the other hand, is a response to violations of physical purity, such as food and sex taboos.