Sentence examples for repugnant world from inspiring English sources

The rules for child pornography, for example, include extra penalties for using a computer, but everyone in that repugnant world uses a computer, rendering the rules obsolete.

How irritating it must be for the author that his two-decade battle to bring his best known work to the big screen has been scuppered by the very people he finds most repugnant in this world - and how wonderfully ironic.

Parfit (1984) and others argued that classical utilitarianism is subject to the repugnant conclusion: a world with a very large number of individuals whose welfare levels are barely above zero could have a larger sum-total of welfare, and therefore count as better, than a world with a smaller number of very well-off individuals.

The lovable Eeyore was really a porn-loving misogynist whose views on race, women, the Labour party, children, mainland Europe (and most of the rest of the world) were repugnant to any fair-minded liberal person.

Today, it is my hope that the notion of singling out any class of Americans as deserving of singularly harsh treatment is repugnant, but even after World War II, as a nation we have struggled with this ideal.

Rather than condemning this dirty war, the United States stands fully behind its ally, one of the world's most repugnant regimes.

New Yorkers, not to mention other Americans, may be ready to accept intrusive law enforcement tactics -- and, yes, possibly with elements of profiling attached -- that they would have deemed repugnant just two days ago, before the World Trade Center collapsed and bodies fell from the sky.

"Regrettably," Mr. Cunningham said, "we are forced to support new measures against the government of Liberia because of its illegal support for insurgents in Sierra Leone, its use of one of the world's most repugnant insurgencies as a proxy, its illegal exploitation of the natural wealth of Sierra Leone and its promotion of instability in the region".

The repugnant underbelly of existence.

He was on a track of vital import to us now, in a world of materalism so repugnant it has become a plague.

Indeed, she claimed through an astonishingly long life she died in 2003, aged 101 that she was first and foremost an artist, never a Nazi propagandist.In the 1930s she made two famous films which, only after the destruction unleashed by her compatriots in the second world war, became morally repugnant.