Sentence examples for repugnance of from inspiring English sources

The moral repugnance of these regimes trumps the appeal of their Westernization.

Instead, it has been left to the Olympic athletes themselves to demonstrate the repugnance of competitors with a doping record.

Those topics offer easy moral choices; few rational Americans disagree about, say, the repugnance of the Ku Klux Klan.

She was too young, as a newborn in the fall of 1918, to grasp the repugnance of the Red Sox' World Series victory.

There should be no doubt about the moral repugnance of Alabama's law, which seeks to deny hardworking families the means to live.

Cameron and Osborne wring their hands at the "moral repugnance" of "aggressive avoidance", but are doing nothing serious about it whatever.

Nowadays, he often describes "Love Wins" as a strategic project, designed to make Christianity more inviting to people who might reject it out of repugnance for the doctrine of Hell.

One result is that what in life would be an overwhelming reaction of repugnance to the enormity of a murder (never mind shock and grief) risks being foregone for the sake of more action, more excitement and another climax.

Full of repugnance for Fascism but bereft of military experience, some of the men ditched their coats and other items along the way to make the uphill walk easier.

There is, however, a tactical advantage in applying the wisdom of repugnance to the stem-cell debate, in that it skirts the familiar theological argument that a manipulated egg is a human life.

(And merely offending the moral sensitivities of others does not count as harm. Especially since others often confuse feelings of repugnance with feelings of moral disapprobation).