Sentence examples for repulsive subject from inspiring English sources

'I only regret that you have wasted your talent on such a repulsive subject, for the story of a young man with so insignificant a life, without any moral backing, must surely so appear to you".

Queen Victoria deplored the idea of women joining professions, especially the medical profession, and described the training of female doctors as a "repulsive subject".

Spanning still lifes of medieval torture instruments and portraits of contemporary human rights abuse victims, Serrano's four dozen photos formally exalt systematized savagery, asking the gaze to linger a while longer on repulsive subject matter.

Violent or repulsive content.

The somewhat repulsive nature of her subject matter makes us, as viewers, very curious.

Visual inspection of the individual experimental results suggested that about seven subjects showed opponent direction of motion effects, with five subjects showing attractive effects between the surround and center motion and 2 subjects showing repulsive effects.

Thirteen years past his boxing prime, Mike Tyson remains a fascinating and repulsive human specimen and a subject for armchair (and licensed) psychiatrists.

"But the Bible says very clearly that homosexuality is wrong, and Christians don't want the schools to teach subjects that are repulsive to their values".

Many believe that words such as repulsive and horrible are "vague and subject to arbitrary interpretation, and consequently lead to widespread discretion and serve as an excuse for harassment".

Atomised is so complex in its subject matter, and yet so excessively repulsive in its execution, that it verges, at times, on adolescent foot-stamping.

The intolerant reaction to this piece was repulsive both in America and in Britain, where it became the subject of a ridiculous Islamic fatwa after it opened in 1999 at London's Pleasance Theatre.