Sentence examples for physical aversion from inspiring English sources

Most theatregoers I know have an almost physical aversion to audience participation.

I didn't want to speak with him, almost as if I now had a physical aversion to the darker and more painful aspects of what had been my long involvement in that crime; I just wanted to hurry past.

In the upper ward of the hospital, a group of women suffering from vague ailments — a touch of pyromania here, a physical aversion to one's husband there — lead a cosseted existence, "excused from all responsibilities save conversation".

This year, one student has devised a series of tools to help us get over our fear of nuclear energy, while another has invented a telescopic video device with a virtual hand for you to stroke things that you fear – a kind of physical aversion therapy for those of us susceptible to the media-driven frenzy of virus epidemics, terrorism and climate catastrophe.

Oh, and I have a physical aversion to focusing a camera".

The horrors they experience including electroshock therapy, physical aversion therapy, forced medication, and more may have seemed so extreme to readers that they could have dismissed them out of hand as fiction, a shameful lesson from Ecuador's deep past.

So maybe now I have a near-physical aversion to nihilistic Edie Brickell porch-swing philosophizing songwriter crooning pap like Kelly Hogan, but this kind of thing might be what awaits me in my 40's and 50's.

Usually, mine features someone I definitely don't fancy in real life – in fact, it helps if I have a physical, guttural aversion to them – as an extra in some mash-up of Spike's song in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode where he's ripping his shirt off and jumping off coffins, calling himself Sarah Michelle Gellar's willing slave.

In popular, nonmedical usage the word has been used traditionally to describe a variety of behaviours, ranging from general coldness of manner or lack of interest in physical affection to aversion to the act of sexual intercourse.

It was there that he acquired an early nickname – taxicab Charlie – for his reputed aversion to physical exercise and there too that he joined the SDP, then newly formed by moderate and rightwing Labour politicians averse to the leftwards direction that their old party was then taking.

His success at Akers' reinforced his commitment to intellectual activity and his aversion to physical toil, and compounded his pride, for which he was frequently admonished by his father.