Sentence examples for repugnant example from inspiring English sources

"Without wishing to put the independence of the judiciary into question, the culprits must feel the full force of the law," Mr. Puchel said, describing the killing as a "sad and repugnant example of what xenophobic views can lead to".

The use of torture is but one particularly repugnant example of not only the Bush administration's moral bankruptcy, but also of their sheer incompetency.

Larson has a tendency to move toward extremes, to dangle the most repugnant example he can come up with and see how the Schrecks react.

Consider how his election has emboldened racism, bigotry and prejudice across the land, a most repugnant example of which came forth last week from Carl Paladino, a former Republican gubernatorial candidate in New York, co-chair of Trump's New York state campaign and currently s member of Buffalo's school board.

But it immediately generates – for example – the repugnant conclusion (Parfit 1987, 381 90; see also repugnant conclusion).

(Though the obvious delight that the Duggars, parents and children alike, seem to take in their existence makes them a relatively weak example of the Repugnant Conclusion).

But they also may have the ability to avoid the repugnant conclusion – to explain, for example, by reference to the ideal of human flourishing (Temkin) or the concept of desert (Feldman) how it can be morally better to produce a smaller number of extremely well off individuals rather than a very large number of people whose lives are only barely worth living.

So, while some concepts or objects are universally repugnant (feces, for instance, which researchers studying disgust call a "core disgust elicitor"), others are repugnant in some cultures but not in others.

An example is Todd Solondz's deliberately repugnant 1998 movie, "Happiness" (shelved in the Dysfunctional Families section of my local video store), in which men live miserably from ejaculation to ejaculation while women torment themselves in the frantic pursuit of love.

(See "Morally Repugnant").. Iceland is an extreme example of a dilemma facing many governments following the globalization of finance, over whether it is the nation in which a bank is headquartered that should bear responsibility when that bank goes bust.

They have ample resources for generating what many philosophers will consider plausible accounts of (for example) both the nonidentity problem and the repugnant conclusion.