Sentence examples for repulsive book from inspiring English sources

Mr. Mano called the novel "the most repulsive book I've yet to come across".

This is just an advance skirmish brought about by a particularly repulsive book on a particularly influential platform.

Her findings are compiled in an enchanting and repulsive book titled The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic.

It is not difficult to see Houellebecq, in this scheme, as a counter-utopian, a revolutionary who wants to do away with desire properly, and who almost succeeds — by making sex so repulsive in his books that no one would want to practice it anymore.

She published an eccentric chapbook entitled The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings in 1915; four years later three of her plays were produced by the Provincetown Players.

The republication of The Book of Repulsive Women, a text Barnes specifically wished to repress within her writing career, is a return of the repressed that mimics in the sphere of publication the text's own representations of literary history and its figurative returns, a representation that poses such returns as deadening.

A reviewer for Literary World in January 1884 called The Bread-Winners a "greasy, slangy, malodorous book... repulsive from the very first step".

The Labour MP for Dunfermline and West Fife says in his letter there are "many who would argue that the publication of books as repulsive as Mein Kampf is the price of living in a democracy", and that "by allowing academic study of books such as this, we ensure that our society understands better the causes of fascism and the origins of Nazism".

Hammer could hear his voice now, a snarl of contempt for the writers who thought his books were repulsive and illiterate.

Perhaps the most chilling and repulsive passages in these books full of repulsive details are the messages Hanssen's Russian handlers wrote to him, which show how astutely and intuitively (they never knew Hanssen's identity) they played to his insecurities.

Repulsive Modernism:Djuna Barnes' The Book of Repulsive Women" "The only exact knowledge there is," said Anatole France, "is the knowledge of the date of publication and the format of books". And indeed, if there is a counterpart to the confusion of a library, it is the order of its catalogue.