Sentence examples for revulsion I from inspiring English sources

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As strange as it sounds, despite a failed war, a brittle economy, and widespread Bush revulsion, I actually think that McCain would be the favorite against any Democrat.

The book also gave theological weight to the revulsion I had felt at witnessing the destruction of nature while growing up in the suburbs.

While I agree wholeheartedly with Virginia Heffernan's assessment in The Medium that the partying, out-of-control woman is a particular object of fear and revulsion, I find it unfortunate that she used my comments as grist for her argument.

When the manager showed him how to clean the toilet, he was "surprised by how little revulsion I felt for a job I would have previously thought beneath me".

"No amount of preparation could have lessened the shock and revulsion I felt on entering a sporting-goods factory in the town of Sialkot," wrote one journalist, who in 1996 described children toiling 80 hours a week to make soccer balls in near darkness.

The problem with anxiety — as Marcus Aurelius would acknowledge — is that, by definition, it's irrational; in that regard, it's not so different from the almost irresistible impulse to jump that seizes me every time I find myself on a 50th-floor balcony, or the senseless revulsion I feel on seeing a rope that I take to be a snake.

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Debi was sort of a way to use some of that energy of revulsion (and self-revulsion), I think.

It looked and smelled so awful and everyone around me was in paroxysms of revulsion - I'm afraid I'm too smart to eat something that gets that kind of reaction.

I am not sure what to do with his strange images and messages!...Actually shocking your audience, seems to be a style all of its own, which I personally feel antipathy and revulsion to!!!!!!!" "I think these paintings are embarrassing".

Why didn't I get the same reaction of shock and revulsion when I originally reported it?

As I watched the commercial, my reaction was one of total revulsion, which I believe was the same as most of the other 100 million watching the game.

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