Evans has some sense of humor and some self-awareness, but not nearly enough, and whatever charm he may once have had has now curdled into repulsiveness.
Judas's physical repulsiveness was generalized to the Jews — for who were they, as St. Jerome said, but "the sons of Judas"?
Gainsbourg turns, before our eyes, from a skinny young nightclub performer in a trim tuxedo into a shaggy and grizzled talk-show fixture, all the while walking the narrow boundary between repulsiveness and charm.
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A kick-ass female villain often has intense desires, a searing intellect and an intriguing glamour or mesmerising repulsiveness.
Reginald Hill's creation is the head of CID in the mythical Mid Yorkshire, an area that encompasses both the charm and repulsiveness of all three real Ridings.
Now ballroom dancing is not alone in promoting this repulsiveness: close relatives are figure skating and the disturbing Olympic event of rhythmic gymnastics (can anybody explain why it is only little girls in tight costumes who perform this "sport"?).
Megan is grotesquely fat, and the butt of endless jokes dependent on her presumed repulsiveness, not just to men but even to her female friends.
In his blunt, unequivocal introduction, Gunn gets to the brilliance and repulsiveness of Pound.
One of "30 Rock" 's most magnificent moments had Tina Fey embracing full repulsiveness: on the subway, she became a mentally ill hag, wearing a gray wig and a mole, and hissing, "I'm pregnant with a kitty cat!," like Baby Jane, Jr. Nothing scares people so much as a woman letting herself go; once you can scare them or make them laugh, you're in charge.
And, over the past year, I realized, I had also allowed myself to forget the sheer repulsiveness of some of Trump's offhand comments about women: that he told his friends to "be rougher" with their wives, that he seemed to regularly joke about dating teen-agers.
