Sentence examples for repulsive figure from inspiring English sources

A pity, in case the Foreign Office was interested, they did not consider sending one to the Leveson inquiry, where Mohan was cutting, in the eyes of some spectators, a decidedly repulsive figure.

Mrs Thatcher's opponents repeatedly played into her hands: Heath, the titular leader of the Tory ditherers, known as the "wets", was a repulsive figure who grew more repulsive with age ("some men are bitches" Mrs Thatcher noted) and Michael Foot, the Labour leader, had an unfortunate habit of dressing like a scarecrow.The book ends on a high note.

In the Helikon's rendering, which will be performed next week as part of the anniversary celebrations, the violent and repulsive father figure in the opera is represented as a sharply suited oligarch, attended at every moment by a bevy of mini-skirted secretaries ready to fulfil his every whim.

This longitudinal branching was strongly biased in an anterior direction suggesting that it was guided by an attractive or repulsive mechanism (Figure 9C).

For example, in a model proposed by Galle, Loeffler et al. (2005), the cells move according to the Langevin dynamics framework and can interact based on a combination of attractive and repulsive forces (Figure 1; Method 4).

Difficult to manufacture after the Anucha Browne Sanders trial last September, Thomas a central figure in that repulsive workplace unveiling.

Figure 3 The repulsive cation-π interactions between protonated histidine (His+) and cations.

We found that in the phase shift-rsp curve, at rsp = 0.85, the interaction force between the tip and the sample varied from the attractive interaction on the PB into the repulsive interaction on the matrix (Figure 7a), leading to a large decrease in amplitude.

Each cell can interact with other cells and substrates in two methods, adhesion and repulsive forces due to elasticity (Figure 9).

Subfamilies BZ1, BZ3 and BZ23 tend to form homodimerization because of the appearance of attractive g↔ e' pair in the first heptad but absence of any repulsive interaction (Additional file 6: Figure S3).

The selectivity toward nucleobase binding appears to result from both electronic and steric effects, including H-bonding (e.g., C6O of G, Figure 13a) and repulsive interactions between protons of the bpy ligand and exocyclic amine groups (C6NH2 of A, Figure 13b).