Therefore, the Soviet Union could be certain that the United States would feel little repugnance at retaliating against Soviet cities.
And part of its legacy was that it eventually established in the United States a popular repugnance among many against those who overtly oppose legal equality for African Americans and indeed against anyone who peddles hate and discrimination against whole groups of people.
They focus on the traits of terrorism that cause most of us to view the practice with deep moral repugnance: (i) violence (ii) against non-combatants (or, alternatively, against innocent people) for the sake of (iii) intimidation (and, on some definitions, (iv) coercion).
If morally neutral terminology is used for morally repugnant acts, it reduces the sense of repugnance.
The German word "Widerwille" means disgust or repugnance, but literally it involves not-wanting or, etymologically, "willing against," and this, Feuerbach contends, is the most rudimentary form of willing.
Whether repugnance really offers wisdom depends, of course, on what you find repugnant.
All thirty-seven Republicand (and many of their Democratic opponents) are explicitly running against TARP and the stimulus -- the fiction of their repugnance having won out, by forfeit, over the fact of their actual success.
The extraordinary repugnance shown towards Tchaikovsky's music by earlier commentators, usually increased by their prejudice against his homosexuality, has begun to slip away.
Leprosy often elicits repugnance.
After mentioning two issues on which he praised Mr. Ashcroft -- his stated repugnance for racial profiling and his commitment to maintain a Justice Department study on the death penalty -- Mr. Feingold cataloged a far lengthier list of particulars against the nominee.
