Humans react with particular revulsion to musical signals that are not of their choice or to their liking.
But for civilians who have risen up against al-Assad, it has been the torture – and death in custody – of children that has caused particular revulsion.
Human rights groups estimate that more than a hundred fifty people were killed, the Times reports, But even more than the shootings, the attacks on women — horrific anywhere, but viewed with particular revulsion in Muslim countries like this one — appear to have traumatized the citizenry and hardened the opposition's determination to force out the leader of the military junta, Capt.
An aroma subjected to a person shown a picture of a French restaurant and a trolley of interesting cheeses provokes a neutral or pleasing response; that same aroma applied when people are shown a photo of dirty laundry, in particular socks, produces revulsion.
While I agree wholeheartedly with Virginia Heffernan's assessment in The Medium that the partying, out-of-control woman is a particular object of fear and revulsion, I find it unfortunate that she used my comments as grist for her argument.
Bloomberg did position himself clearly to Obama's right in one way, and it was very telling: He robustly defended the rich in general, and Wall Street in particular, from the widespread public revulsion it has faced since the economic crisis.
The interesting thing is that it is not any particular physical act which now commands revulsion, but the social and emotional overtones with which an act is invested.
Yes, it could, if the nationwide wave of revulsion that followed, and in particular the visible disgust of most Basques, is anything to go by.Ten days before the kidnapping of Miguel Angel Blanco Garrido, the Basque separatist group ETA had seen the police free another of its captives, who had been held hostage for 18 months, and whose condition on his release had shocked the country.
But in "Don Verdean," Hess's sense of wonder is laced with fury, and it arouses a viewer's bewilderment, even incredulity, that the director dares to depict the action — in particular, the actions of Boaz — with such unvarnished revulsion.
Revulsion at that experience has created a particular focus on privacy.
She spent the rest of her childhood in prison, but her notoriety -- and the revulsion of a British public familiar with the particulars of her case -- never faded.
