Sentence examples for sense of repugnance from inspiring English sources

If morally neutral terminology is used for morally repugnant acts, it reduces the sense of repugnance.

I believe that one day our Christian descendants will look back on our early 21st century Christian debates about torture with the same sense of repugnance that they have when they consider the Las Casas-Sepúlveda debates of 1550.

Bessel fully recognizes the repugnance that the Germans' sense of victimhood and their amnesia about their culpability provokes; and yet, he notes, their eagerness to put Nazism behind them and make "a fundamental break with the past" was "no bad thing".

I recognized with a thrill of repugnance an old red sweater of Ruth's, angora-fuzzy.

Mr. Roth spoke at a recent panel on the economics of repugnance at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative research organization in Washington.

Like many of our subconscious fears, such feelings of repugnance are revealed in the stories we tell.

In his delightful second novel, "Girl Factory," Jim Krusoe manages to take lowly yogurt to new heights of repugnance.

One case of repugnance is far from settled: the dispute over how human organs for transplantation should be allocated — and, perhaps, even sold.

(And merely offending the moral sensitivities of others does not count as harm. Especially since others often confuse feelings of repugnance with feelings of moral disapprobation).

According to Cosmo Lee of Decibel magazine, Chapters of Repugnance is the first album cover on Willowtip that the printer has refused to print.

"We shed light on the quality of Bolton already in the past, and we do not hide our feeling of repugnance toward him," Kim said Wednesday.