Sentences with phrase «revulsion for»

I'm saving my revulsion for when I adjourn to the nature strip again, this time with a stick, to scrape the rest of the dog poo out of the crevices of Sprog 1's sandal that the wet grass didn't reach.

But Dada sprung from revulsion for the culture that devolved into World War I. And although Rauschenberg worked all sorts of topical details into his work, some momentous, some not, his work continues to radiate a love of the real, in all its perishability, utterly different from the Dada spirit.

It shows a revulsion for the excesses of the art market, and a turn away from the creation of objects for that market.

This involuntary revulsion for the press release made it hard for me to enjoy the press release vetting part of my job.

The hilarious 1966 comedy, The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming, reflects revulsion for the potential for a world destroyed by superpower conflict.

Rarely has a filmmaker emerged with as intense a revulsion for his own audience as Michael Haneke.

Rarely is it an act of love, but rather an action meant to express disapproval and / or an expression of distaste / revulsion for the presumed lifestyle choices of those who presumably own the car.

He has often expressed revulsion for «nation building,» but that is precisely what is needed now.

But again, my personal revulsion for it has nothing to do with the existence of any objective meaning to it.

Let us all make sure to admonish this man to the extent of our revulsion for the information he leaked.

Not exact matches

On the corporate side, Facebook, which is not known for being an open platform, has developed such a reputation for privacy violations that the launch of its Messenger app was met with a huge wave of revulsion, even though the permissions being requested were really pretty standard.

Since the late 1950s, there has a been «a growing revulsion against aggression on smaller scales,» empowered by movements for «civil rights, women's rights, children's rights, gay rights, and animal rights.»

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.

That is the EXACT revulsion gay people feel for hetero se.

Ginger: there are heteros that have anal, and there are gay women, which people seem to ignore; you know the revulsion you feel for gay sex?

Its interesting that you lurch from admiration to revulsion of our country, and that you keep coming back for more.

Somewhere in the widespread preference for «spirituality» over «religion» there is a revulsion toward «God.»

The answer, I think, is found in the education of these people, their revulsion with imperial order, and the event of the Great Awakening where the American colonials concurred with Lebniz's comment, «The ultimate reason for things is called God.»

For his original enthusiasm for the theory of types, given in the statement «All the contradictions can be avoided,» (MAT 293) gave way to mild revulsion when he realized that «our only way of understanding the rule is nonsense» (MG 11For his original enthusiasm for the theory of types, given in the statement «All the contradictions can be avoided,» (MAT 293) gave way to mild revulsion when he realized that «our only way of understanding the rule is nonsense» (MG 11for the theory of types, given in the statement «All the contradictions can be avoided,» (MAT 293) gave way to mild revulsion when he realized that «our only way of understanding the rule is nonsense» (MG 111).

But when married couples use contraception, divorces are common even among Christians, and premarital sex is not the grave taboo it once was, where is the rationale for keeping up a barrier against same - sex relations, other than misplaced fear and xenophobic revulsion?

For the speaker to supply the total image robs them of this right, insults their intelligence, deprives them of a vital part of the process of arriving at new meaning and insight, and lastly, may cause them to feel some revulsion toward the speaker.

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.

Sifton never mentions any of this, but Niebuhr's strident opposition to Roosevelt's preparations for war helps us to grasp the revulsion against war that his generation felt after World War I. Even for Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society did not lead straight to the interventionism of 1940; he had had to struggle for eight years to get there.

Joined to the quest for social justice at home was an increasing revulsion at our murderous behavior as a nation in the tiny and war - weary country of Vietnam.

Detailing the general Indian revulsion against the violence in Gujarat and the search for justice by its victims, she highlights the «ability of well - informed citizens to turn against religious nationalism and to rally behind the values of pluralism and equality.»

So it was quite impossible for the engineers to understand what the priests were talking about, for the brick makers to share the architects» vision, for the philosophers to agree on the function of the tower and for the conservationists and poets to overcome their revulsion against such a monstrous desecration of the pastoral environment close to the shores of the Mediterranean.

As an expression of human revulsion at the Holocaust this denial of corporate responsibility is comprehensible, but will it suffice for a Jewish theological understanding of man?

Believe me, the primal revulsion one feels at seeing a boy's hands reaching for her has nothing to do with awkwardness.

The political dimension enters because there was popular revulsion against weapons which most people did not understand; very few people have direct experience of being gassed, for example.

«I share the horror and revulsion at recent atrocities... but I'm not convinced air strikes will increase our security in Brtiain... On the contrary the evidence suggests it will make matters worse... the attacks are an incredibly effective recruiting agent [for Isis]»

BY PAUL SCHINDLER On an off - year election night, a wave of revulsion at the radical and chaotic presidency of Donald Trump meant big wins for Democrats and the election of LGBTQ candidates — including eight who are transgender — and their allies in local races nationwide.

As enthusiasm for Mr. Cuomo seems to be in short supply, Cuomo surrogates are hoping revulsion of Mr. Astorino's alleged «ultra-conservative» agenda can motivate voters to block the Republican from seizing the governor's mansion.

«We express society's revulsion and contempt for individuals who participate in that kind of activity, and the sentence must reflect that.»

There was a growing feeling of revulsion: a sense that we were being worked over for a big steal, lined up for a scam, softened up for an easy picking.

In one such case in 2004, Mr. Spitzer spoke with revulsion and anger after announcing the arrest of 16 people for operating a high - end prostitution ring out of Staten Island.

She also expressed revulsion at Trump's appointment of Trump for President CEO Stephen Bannon — who was once charged in a domestic violence case in 1996 and who ran Breitbart News, a far - right website that flirted with racism and anti-Semitism — as his chief strategist and senior counselor, expressing agreement with the Anti-Defamation League.

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.

It often seems easier for authors to communicate a revulsion to vegetables than to impart an enjoyment of healthy food.

They elicit sub-psychological conservative reactions — revulsion, shame, and maybe the fear that somewhere a sick - o is watching the same movie and taking notes for future reference.

A great date movie for couples who like to share their revulsion at squelchy death scenes and hug each other in dread.

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.

It's not a bitter satire like Dr. Strangelove, but this hilarious 1966 comedy took advantage of a similar shift in sentiment: the revulsion against the potential for a world destroyed by superpower conflict.

by Ian Pugh Beyond its pale stab at indie street cred and an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay (which are almost one and the same these days), Lars and the Real Girl shares with Juno an invitation to partake in a never - ending stream of laughs over its premise until it basically flips a switch and instructs you to get emotional over it — the supposed target of discussion here being nothing less than that ever - popular subject of paternalistic revulsion, mental illness.

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.

This opening scene's sitcom - ready comic timing and bright, Instagrammed look nullifies any revulsion we might have felt, setting the tone for the rest of the film.

Hannibal and Clarice's love / hate, respect / revulsion relationship is a remarkably complex one, and by far the biggest sin committed by the Hannibal team of director Ridley Scott (replacing the Oscar - winning Demme) and screenwriters David Mamet and Steven Zaillian (taking over for Silence's also - Academy - awarded Ted Tally) is their failure to satisfactorily reintroduce it.

United 93 is a heavy, draining experience, not only due to the emotions of the moment, but for people that have chosen to block out what it was like to live through that day of insanity and revulsion.

And while extremes may bring joy to the base, they bring revulsion to the other side and headache to those in the middle who long for sobriety.

We all feel revulsion, empathy, and sorrow for those to whom this has happened, but we are curious as well.

I see the looks of horror and revulsion on their faces and wait for my opening to talk with them.