Sentence examples for repugnant figure from inspiring English sources
And the clenched, contained fury of Mr. Sweet's performance makes this tight-lipped, trigger-happy character such a scary and repugnant figure that you can barely stand to look at him.
The chances are, moreover, that if Hitler is portrayed sympathetically, the program will be ridiculed into oblivion by a society that knows what it thinks of the most destructively repugnant figure of the past century.
Erasmus Kemp is one of the great repugnant figures of recent fiction.
In "The Honor Code," we accompany Detective Appiah as he tries to figure out who killed three morally repugnant practices: dueling among British gentlemen, foot-binding among the Chinese elite and slavery in the British Empire.
Thus, a deist typically rejects the divinity of Christ, as repugnant to reason; the deist typically demotes the figure of Jesus from agent of miraculous redemption to extraordinary moral teacher.
The Olympic figure skating mess had just exploded and that repugnant hockey-dad case in Massachusetts was still fresh in everyone's mind, so of course the air was thick with innuendo about how coaches and especially parents have ruined sports for children.
Trump is a divisive figure, distant from many Republicans in policies and repugnant to others because of his rhetoric.
Thus in Figure 1, A is preferable to Z, i.e. the Repugnant Conclusion is avoided.
A few years ago, I wrote here about abuses seemingly adolescent but nonetheless repugnant high jinks with a cruel streak of flaunted power committed by such beloved classic-Hollywood figures as Harpo Marx and Eddie Cantor, and wrote that their greatness, like that of the best of the studio era, is inseparable from the ugly assumptions on which their work was based.
