Sentence examples for revulsion on from inspiring English sources
A chapter of my second novel, "An Ice-Cream War," was set in Portuguese East Africa (as Mozambique was then known) during World War I, and as I did my research this attitude of prurient revulsion on the part of its British colonial neighbors was particularly striking.
It is telling that whereas many actors – whom we consider preening ponces – turned their backs in revulsion on Mel Gibson when he drunkenly accused the Jews of "being responsible for all the wars", the fashion crowd rallied around John Galliano like so many mother hens protecting an errant chick when he came out with his far worse racist rant.
She has a powerful scene in which she confesses her shame at begging and just as how she was disgusted by a beggar-woman to whom she once gave money, she recognised the revulsion on the face of a well-to-do Parisian about to give her a 20-franc note.
The BBC's correspondent in Sydney, Phil Mercer, said there had been a huge turnout for Ms Meagher's memorial rally and he had never seen "public revulsion on that scale".
Thompson's email guarantees inspiration for Walker-loathing Democrats to take out their revulsion on Thompson.
"But there is also a growing sense of moral revulsion on the human level, and the Christian level, at the results of these policies.
The passion of Christ has always been associated with bodily fluids – it is true that artists traditionally stressed blood rather than urine, but they scarcely stinted on the revulsion of Christ's fleshly death.
One part of this link is obvious: the great welfare states of Europe emerged as part of a revulsion for war on the part of an exhausted and ravaged continent after 1945.
This was often effective, based largely on sympathies rooted in revulsion of the Holocaust and the story of Western anti-Semitism.
"This was one of my first acting jobs," said Duplass, explaining that his character's revulsion drew on his own.
I'm trying to capture the sense of being caught in this triumvirate of lifestyle, neoliberalism and spectacle, and get a similar kind of revulsion going on".
