Sentence examples for repulsive from from inspiring English sources

Its hero, Ignatius J Reilly, is brilliantly repulsive — from his gaseous emissions to his habit of raging against the universal offensiveness of modern culture.

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

She hopes it's also just the beginning of what she's dubbed a "probiotic renaissance," or a new movement embracing earthy, bacteria-heavy smells and tastes that were once considered repulsive, from sour beers and high-acid wines to fermented foods and stinky cheeses.

The handling strategy is based on applying a spatially uniform harmonic electrical voltage at the piezoelectric actuator with the same frequency of handling acoustic waves, in order to change the radiation force effect from repulsive (away from source) to attractive (toward source).

Caloric figures in Lavoisier's list of elements as the "element of heat or fire" (Lavoisier 1789, p. 175), "becom[ing] fixed in bodies … [and] act[ing] upon them with a repulsive force, from which, or from its accumulation in bodies to a greater or lesser degree, the transformation of solids into fluids, and of fluids to aeriform elasticity, is entirely owing" (1789, p. 183).

In potential field method [17], a robot is subjected to attractive force from the target and repulsive forces from obstacles.

Two-body repulsion further implies that that the repulsive contribution from lysozyme's net charge is unlikely to be overcome by only two interacting monomers.

In addition, some repulsive cues from the DA might prevent the axons from touching the DA.

Thus the repulsive force from the substrate under the pulsed biases is higher than that under the d.c.

The double-sided HTS bulk LRM is propelled contactlessly only by electromagnetic repulsive force from both sides of a double-sided armature guideway.

It is shown that the negatively charged MPs are affected by the biases through a repulsive force from the negatively biased substrate.