Their fondness for it is, in fact, often the basis of the punch line, since an outlander who hears a description of poutine in its basic form — French fries with cheese curds and brown gravy — is likely to think that it sounds, well, disgusting.
Either you believe that Hill was lying about being sexually harassed by Thomas at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and that the Judiciary Committee hearings were, as Thomas memorably called them, a "high tech lynch mob," or you believe that Thomas perjured himself, and that the Republican senators impugning Hill's integrity were - well, disgusting jackals doesn't seem too unforgiving.
Carruthers in The Riddle of the Sands (1903) is half out of his mind with boredom; John Buchan's Hannay begins The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) "pretty well disgusted with life"; the war has yet to begin.
Buchan's contribution to this "dime novel" scenario was to create in his protagonist, Richard Hannay, an appealing antihero, both cool and brave, but also "pretty well disgusted with life" who, caught up in a high-octane international drama, has the resource, intelligence and daring to thwart a naked foreign attempt to drag Britain into war.
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover himself complained that he "pretty well disgusted with this woman," who was "doing us great harm".
Again she turned to the FBI for help finding a job, but by this point they had little interest in helping Calomiris FBI director J. Edgar Hoover himself complained that he "pretty well disgusted with this woman," who was "doing us great harm".
Yet in Europe, as in the United States, most people, except some very young children, consider them, well, pretty disgusting.
There was something about the way the cream coated the jelly as it melted in the heat of the mouth that makes jelly and cream one of those nostalgia foods that incite all manner of responses, from utterly delicious to, well, downright disgusting.
But rabbis denouncing me from the pulpit, and in their Saturday sermon columns — well, that was disgusting, and it stung".
Disgusting #UnitedForTahera Well, I won't ever be flying @united Not the first story like this I've heard.
So here's a suggestion: Hang around your neck a small Ziploc bag containing a towelette infused with an aroma of, well, of something deeply disgusting.
