Not exact matches
Its interesting that you lurch from admiration to
revulsion of our country, and that you keep coming back for
more.
If the horrors of the modern age suggest that human evil is perhaps even
more awful in its reach than he imagined, it is also the case that there is a broadly shared human
revulsion against such evil.
Much of the
revulsion to the film is little
more than backlash for the «American Idol» pop star oversaturation, not wanting what has become a national obsession on the small screen to start spilling over onto the big.
Often campy, the movie isn't, until its end, campy enough, turning its final sting into
more a confirmation of the sobriety of its build than the release of
revulsion that I suspect was the intention.
Especially when «24» gives you trickier plotting,
more believable stunts, top - flight production values, first - class actors (Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Stephen Spinella, William Devane, Ray Wise, Jean Smart...) and characters for whom you can actually feel something besides an indefinable creepy
revulsion (though some have that quality, too), week after week (and in digital surround and HDTV, no less)-- making pre-packaged, pre-fab disposable summer action products like «Miiii» seem as dinosaurish and unnecessary as they truly are.
King himself identified a hierarchy of horror, in his book Danse Macabre, that ranged from disgust, which is a base
revulsion, to terror, which is a
more elevated, purer form of fear.
The way the story evolves, as Calvin changes shape and finds ever
more creative ways to destroy the humans, is a masterclass in narrative escalation, and the way celebration and the noble pursuit of discovery quickly turns to
revulsion and survival is really well handled.
Spero labelled the heads «victims», but they are
more likely to inspire
revulsion rather than compassion.
Whereas Frankenstein's creature was a figure of
revulsion, an eight - foot grisly caricature of a man, HAL is the extreme opposite — a machine with no outwardly human appearance, quiet, genteel, and soft - spoken — making his transformation into a monster all the
more chilling.
The French Farmers case supports this obliquely, but
more recently, the Court has recognised that public
revulsion at crimes against children may be a legitimate factor in deciding on expulsion of such criminals.
A simple and relatively neutral UI won't accidentally generate a sense of
revulsion, so that over the long haul — delivered across the world through many different cultures — a relatively simple and slowly evolving UI actually might help Apple sell
more devices.
There is a magnetic
revulsion that emanates from my phone, yet when a friend does call I end up having a nice chat and thinking I should do this
more often.