Yet, whichever way I asked Al-Mubarak about the instinctive repulsion many people in football have for this kind of "project" – for a rich man to just buy a club, then pour in as much money as it took to buy success – he did not so much defend what they were doing as fail to understand the question.
It became clear that Ventura feels true repulsion toward people like Cheney, Sean Hannity, and all the other war pimps who talk tough but stay clear of real combat.
"A Tale of Two Sisters" captures that uneasy state of consciousness as effectively as any movie since Roman Polanski's peerlessly disturbing "Repulsion" (1965), which peoples its young heroine's mind with so many demons that she can't, in the end, find herself there anymore.
If you're at all repulsed by "Repulsion," then you're clearly squeamish around blood.
Jones wrote perceptively about the Canada paintings and the Briey paintings, which "court risk, walking a fine line between attraction and repulsion," and a number of key people read his piece and took notice.
After all, his people annually observe Israel's repulsion of their invading armies as Nakba, the Catastrophe.
This is not the first time he has observed, with morbid and mischievous fascination, the behavior of people in apartments — there was Catherine Deneuve in "Repulsion," Mia Farrow in "Rosemary's Baby," Adrien Brody in "The Pianist" — and here he proves himself once again to be a virtuoso of entrapment.
As we watch these two or more plotlines converge, butt dimples and all, we might try to squint through our confused repulsion to see through to our fondness for these gorgeous people, and the, er, goodness of their mission.
The word ― usually applied with varying degrees of ickiness to cake or to bodily orifices ― holds a legendary power of repulsion, and a new project by Oxford Dictionaries to compile people's most hated English-language words is confirming this. .
As part of an ongoing research study on the attractions and repulsions of violent images, I've spent the last year interviewing people who take voyeuristic delight in viewing the very worst of what the internet has to offer: videos of beheadings, torture, suicides and other things I cannot possibly mention here.
