Sentence examples for with a revulsion from inspiring English sources

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Joshua Greene, a philosopher and cognitive neuroscientist, suggests that evolution equipped people with a revulsion to manhandling an innocent person.

As a result, millions of British children may be readied for the world of work – and perhaps inculcated with a revulsion for benefit dependency – at Britain's most ideologically explicit theme park.

At the moment, the combined efforts of Mr. Brown and Alistair Darling — his equally dyspeptic chancellor, who just two months ago was ridiculed for saying that Britain's economic downturn could be the worst in 60 years — seem to be in tune with a revulsion that Britons express about their high-flying bankers.

This welter of unbidden associations, combined with a revulsion for the season's relentless commercialization, has left in me only an overwhelming desire to escape -- to a South Sea island, if that were possible, or into movies as remote from the smell of cedar and sanctimony, the jangling Kris Kringle bells, as I can find.

Jefferson stated that White reluctantly supported the bill "with a revulsion of stomach almost convulsive".

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How do we account for that revulsion, which many shared with my wife, a revulsion that makes it hard to imagine a second act for Weiner, like Eliot Spitzer's television career or pretty much every day in the life of Bill Clinton?

– is to do with a visceral revulsion at the pairing of age and fecundity.

Reasonable worries about the rise of Muslim fundamentalism were combined with a visceral revulsion and the need for a new enemy, in the post-Fascist, post-Communist world.

He looks at urban clamor with a bemused revulsion; amid the feral fights of the crowd, his vision is ultimately pastoral.

Such defiance, combined with a certain revulsion against the unrelenting moral crusade, led the secular government in April 1498 to turn against Savonarola.

Even though they inhabit a world in which (as Tonho's mother, played by Rita Assemany, says) "the dead command the living," the killer witnesses his act with a stunned revulsion that matches the pathetic desperation of his victim.

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