Sentence examples for violent revulsion from inspiring English sources

Joseph Drake's violent revulsion convinces but neither he nor Olivia Poulet's Lyn – Alec's mother – move us.

This was a relief after the food-smeared "Changeling" of the previous evening, which had left me with a distaste for most edibles and a violent revulsion for all things that arrive on a dessert trolley.

In my rock play Teeth'n'Smiles, the central character, Maggie, is fond of a drink, and is also in a state of violent revulsion at what she sees her world becoming.

The general revulsion against the violent course of the revolution provided conservatives with an opportunity to restore pre-Revolutionary traditions, and several brands of conservative philosophy soon developed.

The move is the regime's most significant in several years and follows a visit by Ibrahim Gambari, the United Nations' special envoy to Myanmar, who conveyed the world's revulsion at the violent crackdown last month.

In normal circumstances, a murderer doesn't seem that attractive a partner – we have a tendency to base our perceptions of people's personalities on their past behaviour, and as a recent Invisibilia podcast episode explored, that can often entail a quiet revulsion towards convicted violent criminals.

Mr. Gibson's version of the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus, controversial long before it was seen, is a harrowingly violent spectacle that invites the audience's revulsion in the hopes that it will turn into something like awe.

The prosecution has also seized on the fact that Mr. Malvo has on several occasions expressed revulsion or reservations about Mr. Muhammad's violent plans -- once even attempting suicide to avoid killing people -- as evidence that he knew that those plans were horribly wrong.

New York Times critic Charles Isherwood called Falls' Lear "aggressively raunchy" and "excruciatingly violent" but observed that it succeeded in its aim "to reawaken our revulsion at the violence in this relentlessly dark tragedy".

Perhaps the prospects for peace would not seem so bleak if the belated but unreserved and widespread revulsion and introspection expressed by the Israeli authorities and public to recent violent attacks by Israeli youths were matched by the Palestinian government and society.

Saatchi himself acknowledged the public revulsion, first in his statement – "the pictures are horrific but give a far more drastic and violent impression of what took place" – and later by accepting a police caution.