Sentences with phrase «revulsion when»

Yet the very same part of the brain also fires up in revulsion when subjects are outraged by the cruel or unjust treatment of others.

We do, however, experience revulsion when we see things that are associated with pathogens — festering wounds, rotting meat, dead bodies, and feces.

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 111).

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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?

When we read about God telling Israel to go slaughter men and women, the natural, right, and godly response is to read such depictions with revulsion, loathing, and disgust.

This is how to read the violent portions of the Bible, so that when we turn away from them in revulsion, we are trained to turn away from similar violent tendencies in our own heart as well.

We have a natural revulsion to the idea of checking people's BMI before accepting them into the Church, especially when obesity is not necessarily reflective of gluttony (often, in this country, it is a result of poverty), and when we know from our own experiences or the experiences of those we love that an unhealthy weight can result from a variety of factors — from genetics to psychological components — and when some of our favorite people in the world (or when we ourselves) wrestle with a complicated relationship with food, whether it's through overeating or under - eating.

However, widespread revulsion to the horrors of Kermit Gosnell's abortion clinic in Philadelphia is an encouraging proof that common sense still rejects the reductivist model (even if only when hit over the head with it).

When I came across my aunt cleaning her breast pump, I can recall asking with revulsion, «Why on earth would you want to pump your breasts?»

At some point in the future I hope people look back at us now and feel as much revulsion as I feel when I read those stories of how x-rays were used.

Lord Oakeshott, the Lib Dem pension spokesman, said: «When the U-turn was announced you could see a wave of revulsion sweep around the House.

In his response Tuesday, Paterson was clearly trying to capitalize on the same skepticism toward the press, and revulsion at its intrusion into private life, that helped revive Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign in February 2008, when the Times, after weeks of similar speculation, reported on McCain's relationship with a female lobbyist.

Katie, a pretty middle - of - the - road girl herself, found she was turned off when a guy she was dating expressed a bit of revulsion about a past sexual exploit (talking about past sexual exploits in exhaustive detail is another no - no in fact).

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.

When Kane unveils the transformed insides of his companion's abdominal cavity, it reveals a horror and revulsion at the thought of sharing a space with non-humans.

LC: Fear and revulsion sell — they're part of the popular narrative when it comes to China.

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.

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.