Sentences with phrase «moral revulsion»

Moreover, Redgrave's feeling about Murphy — which confuses sexual envy, anti-Americanism, personal differences, and moral revulsion — forecasts Paul's own muddled attitude toward Prokosch and the prospect of selling out.

Logan's director, James Mangold, does the same with clips from the western Shane (1953), hijacking George Stevens's powerful scenes of cruel violence but imparting no sense of the aesthetic daring and moral revulsion that made that film a moral and artistic landmark.

Walter Hill's first outright failure, this revisionist western draws on the major themes of his work — the relationship of pursuer and pursued; the beauty of clean, planned action; the attraction to violence and resultant moral revulsion — but none of them ignites.

Lincoln never believed he could order slaves freed just because of his moral revulsion to slavery.

It is such moral revulsion that speaks in the prophetic warnings and denunciations where we commonly meet the scathing summary of this whole system of religion: «On every high hill and under every green tree you prostrated yourself as a harlot» (Jer.

Though they instinctively recoiled from such practices as genital mutilation or genocide, Cox writes, their politically correct conditioning left them without a way to justify their moral revulsion in universal terms.

All of the moral revulsion that used to be brought down on sin is now being brought down on the sinner.

Take, for example, those Marxists who felt a moral revulsion toward the Moscow Show Trials of the thirties or the Soviet invasions of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.

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Therefore, it does not aim to out - argue its opponents, but to shame them, to drive them from the field in ignominy, to make them figures of ridicule, moral indignation, and revulsion.

In part it is a revulsion against the sentimentality which substituted for the ancient symbols, with the realities to which they pointed, the dubious realities of man's inner religious and moral life.

There are people with academic papers that discuss that the societal inhibitions and revulsion against it and that they can be broken down on moral and esthetic grounds.

Our revulsion against the moral horrors of our age can incline us to reject anything less than complete and immediate reversal of Roe v. Wade and other repellent aspects of the current social order.

Researchers have found that revulsion activates the brain's harm - avoidance center, invoking notions of cleanliness and moral purity as a primal mechanism for avoiding disease.

Indeed, this revulsion is often expressed in terms of moral turpitude, as opposed to relative criminality.

Because of the moral panics that have been weaponized against everything from Dungeons & Dragons to Grand Theft Auto in the past, everyone who works in or around the gaming industry has a certain, marrow - deep revulsion to arguments that smack of «what about the children!?»