How To Use Aversion In A Sentence

Fancy an heir that a father had seen born well-featured and fair, turning suddenly wry-nosed, club-footed, squint-eyed, hair-lipped, wapper-jawed, carrot-haired, from a pride become an aversion, -- my case was yet worse. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
When the gentleman who guided me through the bush left me on the side of a pali, I discovered that Kahele, though strong, gentle, and sure-footed, possesses the odious fault known as balking, and expressed his aversion to ascend the other side in a most unmistakable manner. The Hawaiian Archipelago
At that time, I being but eight years of age, was left in town for the convenience of education, boarded with an aunt, who was a rigid presbyterian, and confined me so closely to what she called the duties of religion, that in time I grew weary of her doctrines, and by degrees received an aversion for the good books, she daily recommended to my perusal. The Adventures of Roderick Random
We have grasped, perhaps more than any other nation, that there is a long-run cost to dependency on the state, including an aversion to risk that eventually enervates the entrepreneurial spirit necessary for innovation and prosperity. Beware of the Big-Government Tipping Point
josh on September 23rd, 2008 @ 11:59 pm our acceptingness of a lack of extraversion prevents neuroticism? Seattle Freeze Documented by Wall Street Journal | Seattle Metblogs

The people are feeling so terrified that they are moving into shells and developing a typical aversion towards any kind of agitational path or protest movements. Archive 2006-06-01
This impression was often based on an aversion to the strong odour of the camels rather than the cameleers themselves.
You should not tell your client to expect that they will automatically experience an aversion response to the imagery of drinking.
My lifetime aversion to raisins, sultanas and currants meant mince pies were out and the Christmas pudding, burning with blue flames after being doused in brandy, was nothing more than an interesting spectacle.
Europeans often have difficulty in overcoming their initial aversion to this smell.
To the average western man, who has an aversion to what he considers unsportsmanlike conduct, merely the mention of the word sniper evokes an image of an evil little foreign man sneaking through the jungles of Okinawa picking off the good guys, or of a merciless Viet Cong hiding in a tree waiting for the opportunity to kill a 19-year-old GI from Des Moines or Wichita as he walks patrol at Nha Trang. ONE SHOT-ONE KILL
Imagery offers another approach to aversion therapy which is not as painful or invasive as the procedures mentioned above.
Despite what many people think, aversion therapy is no longer used by professional psychologists in this country.
Promiscuously and indefatigable to pursue all sorts of pleasures I own to be brutish, and to avoid all with a suitable aversion equally blockish, let the mind then freely enjoy such pleasures as are agreeable to its nature and temper. Essays and Miscellanies
I can't really understand the distinct aversion felt by the three persons who humored me by coming along.
Human as it sounds, loss aversion appears to be a trait we've inherited genetically because it is found in other primates, such as capuchin monkeys. Archive 2008-04-01
I would like to think it's not an demoded tactic to create exclusivity, and more some sort technological aversion, like Prada's many years without a website. On the Runway
Neurasthenia, stammering, aversions, kleptomania, certain cases of paralysis, are nothing but the result of unconscious autosuggestion, that is to say the result of the action of the _unconscious_ upon the physical and moral being. Maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente. English
Despite what many people think, aversion therapy is no longer used by professional psychologists in this country.
The other thing I didn't like about it was an almost religious aversion to Microsoft.
The Buddha's aversion to speculation did not prevent him from insisting on the importance of a correct knowledge of our mental constitution, the chain of causation and other abstruse matters; nor does it really take the form of neglecting metaphysics: rather of defining them in a manner so authoritative as to imply a reserve of unimparted knowledge. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
The Protestant Reformation enlisted widespread lay support by its politically motivated aversion to the monastic ideal, which lay anticlericals opposed as absorbing too much wealth in support of its institutions.
Ultimately what it amounts to is an aversion to pretentiousness and egomania.
We could see the yen, regarded as a relatively safe currency, rise even further" should investors' risk aversion intensify over a deepening European crisis, the official, Sayuri Shirai, said in a speech today in Kofu, central Japan. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
‘We have such aversion to the reality of our mortality, our carnality, our physical being,’ he says.
On the twentieth, sweated all over; apyrexia, dejections bilious; aversion to food, comatose. Of The Epidemics
A confirmation of this aversion on the part of some members of the Commission for the expression "sepulcher" can be found in N. Giampietro, op. cit, p. 312. RORATE CÆLI
How could a taste for certain bright colours or an aversion to others possibly have helped our ancestors to survive?
I have chosen a special "mean lady picture of the day" for this post, because I have a secret aversion (public, now) to strapless wedding gowns and/or anything even related to "tarty" (THIS INCLUDES RHINESTONES) on a wedding dress. Nice Day for a White Wedding (Dress) - A Dress A Day
I painted the nibbled area with a well known brand of chilli sauce as aversion therapy.
The others were those who could not be at the grove full-time - due to work, home, or an aversion to sleeping either 80 feet up a tree or in a wigwam made of tarps set on a gravel logging road.
Most people have a natural aversion to anything associated with death or dying.
I was able to do but very little service wherever I was to go, except it was to run of errands and be a drudge to some cookmaid, and this they told me of often, which put me into a great fright; for I had a thorough aversion to going to service, as they called it The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders
The director keeps the camera close to their faces, and the scenes are played out with smiles, winces, sneers, vulgarities, long pauses, shrugs, inane repetitions, dartings, and aversions of the eyes.
The book casts a jaundiced eye on everything from helicopter rescues and large, boisterous groups to the use of cell phones, to which Guy had a particularly strong aversion.
It is probable that the Count was in connivance with them about all this, but anybody was surely little acquainted with me who did not know that I was too busy with my art to give any time to politics, even if I had not always felt an aversion to everything smacking of intrigue. Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
So, I'll have to do this through old-fashioned will power or some 12-step program or through aversion therapy or something. which gives the medical term for nail biting: onychophagia, from the Greek compound comprising the root of onyx (onycho -) "(finger / toe) nail" + phagia "eating. Marginal Notes
New speakers are not helped by the Polish aversion to vowels as anyone who has tried to ask directions to Bydgoszcz will agree. Ben Colclough: Learning The Lingo: The 5 Hardest Languages To Master
Your very name arouses her aversion for the past, for life. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
With untold billions illegally wagered on sport in the US, one might also think that the puritanical aversion that the nation feels towards the marriage of sport and wagering would dissipate.
I can't really understand the distinct aversion felt by the three persons who humored me by coming along.
This led to their conclusion that odors associated with toxicity, like warning colors, can have a special intrinsic warning value and trigger innate aversions.
The protest that gave Protestantism its name was against display, against the staginess of the Catholic Church, and its aversion to theatrics applies equally to money: better to appear less wealthy than you are and keep putting in the hours. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
Existing treatments for alcoholism tend to concentrate either on abstention - sometimes aided by drugs - or the use of aversion therapy, such as drugs that make you ill if you drink.
Pfennig, the University of North Carolina biologist, added that this aversion to mimics has been seen in other species as the result of genetics.
Pair indifference to risk aversion did not last, and finally broke under 87.00 static area, also the short term ascendant trend line that was guiding price action in the hourly hart. FXstreet.com
They are habits, predispositions, deeply engrained attitudes of aversion and preference.
The five factors are openness to experience, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness and neuroticism. Times, Sunday Times
He had an aversion to horror movies, but he would have preferred one to what he had seen on the screen.
He had, indeed, that strong aversion felt by all the lower ranks of people towards four-footed companions very completely, notwithstanding he had for many years a cat which he called Hodge, that kept always in his room at Fleet Street; but so exact was he not to offend the human species by superfluous attention to brutes, that when the creature was grown sick and old, and could eat nothing but oysters, Mr. Johnson always went out himself to buy Hodge's dinner, that Francis the black's delicacy might not be hurt, at seeing himself employed for the convenience of a quadruped. Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson
The fish and chip corner shop has disappeared, but its demise may not be due to the tandoori craze, but rather to an aversion to greasy food in a health-conscious society.
The questionnaires were used to measure psychoticism, extraversion, neuroticism, degree of involvement in gaming or satanic practices, and belief in the paranormal.
The Ingratiation Impression Management would be influenced by high extraversion, low neuroticism and high self-esteem.
The immediate cause of the rise and fall of the stockmarket over the past two years is the market's fixation with technology companies, in an overall climate of intense risk-aversion.
Both use as starting points the relationships of the protagonists to their personal avatars, iconoclasts who encourage their aversion to the trivial workaday world.
Harrell's presence was like aversion therapy, shocking Hyde out of his numb, weary self-absorption. THE LAST RAVEN
This was to have an impact on his political strategy: though sympathetic to some of the aims of both the French Revolution and the United Irishmen, he retained a strong aversion to political violence.
The other day, fielding questions about her aversion for holding press conferences, she openly admitted to her feeling that media exercises may not yield the desired results.
But I was not of that age, had no desire to learn programming languages, and had undergone game aversion therapy.
More recently, during World War II, Katharine Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Meyers, used Jung's typological theories to develop the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator, which classifies people according to opposing traits such as extraversion vs. introversion, and judging vs. perceiving. You Are What You Keep
His neck size doubtlessly contributed to his aversion for neckties of any kind, and from age 50 onward, Brahms wore the collarless shirt of a hunter.
When he was a schoolboy at an insufferable snob establishment on the south coast of England, George Orwell developed a strong aversion to all things Scottish.
Aunt Eliza," said Aurora one day, "you have instilled into my sensitive nature an indelible aversion to men, compared with which all such deleble passions as affection and love are as inconsequential as summer zephyrs. The Holy Cross and Other Tales
The candour of this speech, in which his aversion to the Delviles was openly acknowledged, and rationally justified, somewhat quieted the suspicions of Cecilia, which far more anxiously sought to be confuted than confirmed: she began, therefore, to conclude that some accident, inexplicable as unfortunate, had occasioned the partial discovery to Mr Cecilia
Not surprisingly, the aversion may be stronger when the person in question is a stranger.
While the UN loss was no surprise given Russia's and China's joint aversion to UN/NATO mission creep in Libya the double veto camouflages a more vexing development in the Eastern Mediterranean: a renewed effort by Russia's Vladimir Putin to reconsolidate a foot-hold in the Middle East against anti-democratic forces. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Syria's Double Diplomatic Muscle
Apnea is a form of aversion therapy which produces a terrifying paralysis of breathing for about 60 seconds.
But I was not of that age, had no desire to learn programming languages, and had undergone game aversion therapy.
Schopenhauer had an aversion to fighting, and even more of an aversion to fighting on the Prussian side against the French.
But if top management scored high on crisis management, they get a fail grade when it comes to crisis aversion.
So many of us strive to raise our children with good moral values including an aversion to violence and aggression.
His Holiness explains the seed of bodhicitta, which is the biologically innate compassion (the love that binds social animals together); aspects of attachment and aversion required for biological survival; and tantric meditations that take anger (but not ill will) into the path. Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary
I don't know whether or not this is a peculiarly Australian characteristic, but I have no doubt that in this country, people have a deep aversion to believing that their government is incompetent.
Overconfidence and regret aversion are two basic concepts in behavioral finance.
Even the odor of my Calcutta washerman, redolent with the fragrance of castor oil, was too much for my unchastised squeamishness; and as to assafoetida, the favorite condiment of our Aryan cousins, I was so uncatholic as to bring away from India the same aversion to it that I had carried out there. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
Gong Li wanted to enroll in the Department of Sociology at Beijing University, but it caused an aversion from the academic.
Gong Li wanted to enroll in the Department of Sociology at Beijing University, but it caused an aversion from the academic circle.
Juniper," replies the other, "I think the ` aversions, 'as you call them, belong to you and not to me, if I may judge by your aversion for poor Jacob; and as for ` retrospects,' I think the less I say about them the better. Frank Oldfield Lost and Found
I was a radio deejay for a time, so I have a strong aversion to anybody tampering with my visions of a real artist.
Not withstanding his attempts to appease conservative critics, Mr Frohnmayer's aversion to placing any restrictions on artistic freedom was increasingly apparent.
Fuller-figured endomorphs were given to viscerotonia, characterized by 'relaxation, extraversion of affect, love of food, sociality, etc'. The Times Literary Supplement
- Although arable lands were generally plentiful and population densities low, achievement of higher productivity per farm family was hampered by lack of evolution of modern, improved farming techniques, by rigid and unprogressive organizational and land tenurial practices which discouraged long-term investments by external cultivators, and by absence of credit facilities to farmers and farmers 'aversion to cooperation societies. 1. Sustainability of land use systems: the potential of indigenous measures for the maintenance of soil productivity in sub-sahara african agriculture.
Sure, some people through their personality (extraversion, agreeableness) have probably acquired more skills than others by early adulthood. Times, Sunday Times
The popular press calls it envy; Dr. Range prefers the term inequity aversion. Archive 2008-12-01
This is especially the case with the chemical and electrical aversion therapies.
I have some food aversions and was wondering who else had some they wanted to share.
Indonesia, Southeast Asia's largest economy, was forced to postpone its maiden global offering of Islamic bonds, known as sukuk, in November when the credit crisis triggered risk aversion. Indonesia Advances Islam Bond
Fuller-figured endomorphs were given to viscerotonia, characterized by 'relaxation, extraversion of affect, love of food, sociality, etc'. The Times Literary Supplement
Your inappetency, without doubt, is only owing to the aversion you have to a discovery. The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01
We have Obama particularly looking down a lot ... and now looking down - what I call gaze aversion - is a new measure that has to go along with blink frequency," he said. The MetroWest Daily News Homepage RSS
Then, my dear, the man seems already to be meditating vengeance against me for an aversion I cannot help: for yesterday my saucy gaoleress assured me, that all my oppositions would not signify that pinch of snuff, holding out her genteel finger and thumb: that Clarissa Harlowe
Rats have evolved a strong, innate aversion to the smells of their predators.
He remembered Thelma's shuddering repugnance at the sight of her, -- a repugnance which he himself had shared -- and which made him shrink with fastidious aversion, from the idea of confiding to any one but Sir Philip, the miserable secret of his connection with her. Thelma
On the other hand, in looking at the world of probabilities in something like the stock market, we exhibit something researchers call myopic loss aversion. Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com
Twenge's team said their finding was consistent with other research showing generational increases in self-esteem, extraversion and assertiveness.
From the start, his themes were expressive of his personal traumas, his aversions and aspirations, and above all conflict with authority.
He took an immediate aversion to his new boss.
Not to mention their aversion to the letter z, pronounced "zed" in most British dialects and the general accent. British-English Dictionary
If you share my aversion to rides (I love ‘em, it’s my inner ear that can’t stand ‘em), then the midway is only slightly less noisy and unpleasant than the battle of the same name. The first sentence I wrote today…
Seaton's heart beat with the terrible admixture of aversion and, ashamedly, thrill. FAIRYLAND
So I see it as an unconscious aversion, a fear of being "outbred" by the "other. Archive 2007-12-01
This is not just a manifestation of extraversion. Times, Sunday Times
Althouse: Wisconsin ranked second for 'extraversion' behind North Dakota and fifth for 'agreeableness,' again, behind No. "Wisconsin ranked second for 'extraversion' behind North Dakota and fifth for 'agreeableness,' again, behind No. 1 North Dakota..."
The great error in Rip's composition was insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor.
Weight loss for women: studies of smokers and nonsmokers using hypnosis and multicomponent treatments with and without overt aversion. Martin Rossman, M.D.: Manage Your Weight Through Cognitive Emotional Techniques
Despite his aversion to publicity, Arnold was persuaded to talk to the press.
I painted the nibbled area with a well known brand of chilli sauce as aversion therapy.
Extraversion results were moderately low which suggests you are reclusive, quiet, unassertive, and secretive.
Despite his aversion to literary pretension, Parks has translated the Italian writer, who is more surely a purveyor of bosh than Rushdie ever will be.
I'm not some sort of Francophobe; Mr. Bonnet shared his aversion with me when I visited the factory in Sunset Park last week to make heart-shaped Ring Dings with him. Ring Dings, From the Heart
The present work supports the idea that loss aversion may be a more universal bias, arising regardless of experience and culture and demonstrates that loss aversion is displayed even by those bettors regarded in the market as “smart money”. Putting the "Cuss" back in "Homo Economicus "
Researchers measured extraversion and introversion among participants with a standard questionnaire and then compared extraverts to introverts by correlating the extraversion score to the strength of the positive-affect boost.
Based on a tousled, centre-left clefted, mop head with policy aversion? Bad Hair Day: Cam Hands Double Crown to Lib Dems
The Fascist Party openly avowed its aversion to democracy and the liberal state.
Moments of pleasantness elicit a desire for more, moments of unpleasantness give rise to aversion, and moments of neutrality are opportunities to fall asleep.
She regarded the overdressed girl with aversion, answered her mincingly-spoken "How do you do, Marjory?" very curtly, and continued to "glower," as Mrs. Smylie described it, without saying another word. Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls
Those scoring high on the blirt scale report higher levels of assertiveness, extraversion, self-esteem, self-liking, self-competence and positive effect. Why Nagging Women And Silent Men Drive Each Other Crazy
It's very much like the radiance of falling in love, but it's not the ordinary falling in love where we're still involved in attachment and aversion; it's a radiance that is imperturbable because totally ultimate.
He also observed the students learning an aversion to investigating patients' social and psychological problems.
Your latex allergy has brought me untold misery and your aversion to hot wax has cost me hundreds at the laser salon.
Predators are able to learn to avoid prey exhibiting warning colors but they may also have unlearned aversions towards certain colors or patterns.
Protagonists generally have needs, desires, goals, aversions and fears, and their efforts to achieve their goals are generally complicated or thwarted by an antagonist, who may be hostile to the protagonist.
I have an aversion to mean people and I'd rather pay the entire dinner bill than listen to people haggling about who had a second sambuca.
Those with an aversion to sickly sentiment should look away now.
Is there some sort of aversion therapy involving repeated viewings of American Beauty that I need to do?
Hmm's," "Oh's," and "Ah's" while examining the tension-wracked subject, and by their ponderous Greek and Latin terminology: ankyloglossia: to put one's foot (up to the ankle) in one's mouth. arthritis: excessive devotion to a legendary English king. ballism: excessive venery. basophilia carpitis: degenerate predilection for certain type fish. bathophobia: childhood aversion to shower. beri-beri: a most grave disease. bigeminy: expression favored by rural physicians; of. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
Then there's the clubbiness of media folk in New York and Washington - not to mention corporate-pressured aversion to controversy.
A stubborn aversion to defeat was reflected in a qualifying campaign bettered only by France, a consistency they have carried into the tournament proper.
They often had tiny spats about Maddie's aversion to anything girlish or even hinting towards being a woman.
This state also has a low score on 'extraversion' which is also evident here. Vanishing American
They have a rooted aversion to it and never employ it in their clothing, because it suggests to their fancy the idea of bloodlessness -- of anaemia and death. Alone
Jetter worked hard and made it to the top of his profession without having the natural gregariousness - or what psychologists call extraversion - usually associated with leadership. KansasCity.com: Front Page
I sometimes think my aversion to summer beautification rituals can be traced to a long history of miserabilism. Times, Sunday Times
The Myers-Briggs type indicator (MBTI) popularized the terms extraversion and introversion, describing them as follows [nb: and I crossed off the parts of the descriptions that _don't_ fit me]: Djchuang.com
The disciplined worker, he indicated, ‘was entitled to his own pet aversions.’
JAI tentionalis suis in actibus • Illud intellectus proponit volunta* ti) quod tamen ea pro sua libertate in humanis actionibus aut com* plectityr y aut aspernatur; nisi forte omittat actionem positivam pro* secutionis, aut aversionis circa rem propositam pro indole libertatis) quam dicunt penes specificationem, aut exercUium. Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ...
Despite his aversion to publicity, Arnold was persuaded to talk to the press.
Acknowledging an aversion to judge-made law, Patel would not embrace privacy or other public policy arguments made by Dolly's attorneys, citing the absence of legislation and case law to guide her.
Perhaps they have - although, as Sierra Leone showed this year, the arms trade is still its secretive, unwholesome self - but if lessons have been digested can they ever answer the conundrum posed by risk-aversion?
He also observed the students learning an aversion to investigating patients' social and psychological problems.
On the other hand, the standard tones could mean a lack of daring or even an aversion to technology.
Secondly, there appears to be a general aversion among Labor and Democrats to long-term policy planning and strategic thinking.
There was no harm in him — he had a great aversion to shedding blood: which was something — but, he was a weak, silly, helpless young man, and a mere shuttlecock to the great lordly battledores about the Court. A Child's History of England
When people relapsed despite the aversions, the researchers asked them a lot of questions about what happened.
However, A displays more curvature than B at that point, and hence more risk aversion.
But cruel Freudian aversion therapy proved incapable of changing it, and the fashion then changed to hormonal explanations.
Notwithstanding the aversion with which I regarded the idea of entrapping him into any disclosure he was not prepared to make voluntarily, I should have taken him up at this point, but for the strange proceedings in which I saw him engaged; whereof his putting the lemon-peel into the kettle, the sugar into the snuffer-tray, the spirit into the empty jug, and confidently attempting to pour boiling water out of David Copperfield
I have an aversion to tame poetry; at best, perhaps the art is the sublimest of the difficiles nugae; to measure or rhyme prose is trifling without being difficult. Selected English Letters
You should not tell your client to expect that they will automatically experience an aversion response to the imagery of drinking.
In her nerve tissue, nevertheless, the aversion to untouchables continued to twitch.
Save for his aversion to the blues, the patient is something of a textbook classicist.
Then the calm which follows the wake of the storm, the consciously averted eyes, and the very conscious breathing, which had in it something of shame; the almost aversion to speak or touch again, and over all, the deep silence of the moor, broken only by the burn and the whaup, and the thick cloud, kindly dark, that came over the moon. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
Her skill as both a storyteller and a songsmith suggests an aversion to short-cuts and the easy way out.
Twelfth day the fiddler lays his head in the lap of some one of the wenches, and the _mainstyr fiddler_ asks who such a maid, or such a maid, naming all the girls one after another, shall marry, to which he answers according to his own whim, or agreeable to the intimacies he has taken notice of during the time of merriment, and whatever he says is absolutely depended upon as an oracle; and if he couple two people who have an aversion to each other, tears and vexation succeed the mirth; this they call "cutting off the fiddler's head," for after this he is dead for a whole year. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
Jetter worked hard and made it to the top of his profession without having the natural gregariousness or what psychologists call extraversion usually associated with leadership. KansasCity.com: Front Page
The five factors are openness to experience, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness and neuroticism. Times, Sunday Times
This tone of slight snobbishness, a patrician aversion to vulgar middle-class prejudice, is typical of the book.
The credit goes to Michael Craig Martin and his Damascene vision that the British aversion to modernism was based on its lack of subject.
Not withstanding his attempts to appease conservative critics, Mr Frohnmayer's aversion to placing any restrictions on artistic freedom was increasingly apparent.
There are frequent complaints about unwillingness to work, lack of entrepreneurialism and aversion to risk.
Dora 's need to be alone with him finally overcame her aversion to exercise, and she asked him to walk to the lake. THIS HEART OF MINE
This was not, I thought, quite so sure, but of course I acquiesced, as in duty bound; and matters went on pretty much as usual for seven or eight weeks, except that Mr Renshawe manifested much aversion towards myself personally, and at last served me with a written notice to quit at the end of the term previously stipulated for. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852
The only adverse feeling justifiable toward a lawbreaker is that he is weak or deficient; and it is a sufficient humiliation for him to be considered so, without an accompaniment of aversion or scorn. Humanizing the Prisons
Risk aversion is one of the most serious problems and largest cost of our human space flight enterprise. Remembering - NASA Watch
I find in myself a natural aversion to my duty, and to spiritual and divine exercises, and a propensity to that which is evil, such an inclination towards the world and the flesh as amounts to a propensity to backslide from the living Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
He had an ineradicable aversion to that - domestic animal. Goliah
Prior research by the same researchers (also adopting the Social Relations Lens Model) found that men with a long-term mating orientation (which is correlated with reduced levels of extraversion) and shy men (which is correlated with higher levels of neuroticism) get the short end of the stick in rapid mate-selection settings such as speed dating. Who Is Popular at First Sight?
Mengele, she believes, chose her for this favoured project because, although sick and lousy, her flesh was remarkably unmarked - Mengele had an aversion to scarred or scabrous skin.
I see this in Scottish writing, IMO, and I know Scott Bakker has talked about it in respect to Canadian writing -- a more institutionalised aversion to the abjected "genre". What is Literary Fiction?
Wisconsin ranked second for 'extraversion' behind North Dakota and fifth for 'agreeableness,' again, behind No. "Wisconsin ranked second for 'extraversion' behind North Dakota and fifth for 'agreeableness,' again, behind No. 1 North Dakota..."
Know, my son, and make all others know, that it is a probable and proximate sign of eternal damnation to have an aversion, a lukewarmness, or a negligence in saying the Angelical Salutation, which has repaired the whole world. Archive 2009-06-14
Ultimately what it amounts to is an aversion to pretentiousness and egomania.
In fact, it's sometimes incurious about his life and work, concentrating rather on the mix of fragments, whispers and urban myths that have arisen about Pynchon, due to his aversion to being photographed or interviewed.
Neurasthenia, stammering, aversions, kleptomania, certain cases of paralysis, are nothing but the result of unconscious autosuggestion, that is to say the result of the action of the _unconscious_ upon the physical and moral being. Maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente. English
Perhaps some of his aversion stemmed from uneasiness about his present assignment. TANK OF SERPENTS
One of the best ways to punch through the bunker of risk-aversion is plunging into activities and passions off-the-clock, as Lingafelter did with climbing. Joe Robinson: Risk vs. Fear: Safe Is Sorry
But then again, in those weeks between the scouting combine and draft day, you just know the risk aversion is going to set in for teams looking at some pretty good players as alternatives in that range of picks 5-15. Red Line: 2009 draft should be deeper than 2008
He was conscious of a kind of envenomed resentment, almost aversion; yet his chief misgiving at that moment, which he recognized with added wrath, was lest she should leave him as quickly as she had come. The Sign of the Spider
Like as not I'd have developed an aversion to people I didn't know, turned in on myself, and ended up a miserable old man instead of the happy old geezer I have become.
In her nerve tissue, nevertheless, the aversion to untouchables continued to twitch.
There continues to be an aversion to tax increases and growth in government.
She felt a natural aversion for light women and the sort the soldiers called their sweethearts or "doxies," but it had been revealed to her that we should hold such in great pity and deal compassionately with them. The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche 1909
This abuse of power could hardly be resisted, as the natives have a radicate aversion to being married elsewhere than in the village of the bride. The Philippine Islands
You can't rank 2nd for 'extraversion' and claim a place is nice. "Wisconsin ranked second for 'extraversion' behind North Dakota and fifth for 'agreeableness,' again, behind No. 1 North Dakota..."
But the conclusion followed, considering the aversion of the Romulan government—of both Romulan governments—to his efforts to reunify their people with their Vulcan cousins. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
The Mustache Institute - a tongue-in-check group dedicated to defending a man's right to sport a mustache against modern aversions - is demanding Snarr "recant" his shaving pledge and find another way to support the Children's Miracle Network. The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front
The dollar's "nonuniform reaction to the report, coupled with headline figures coming in on expectations, suggests that the current selloff has little to do with risk aversion and market sentiment," said Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist at Bank of New York Mellon in an email note. China to Open Yuan's Role in Trade
Victims would develop an aversion to garlic and other blood-thinning agents.
Other symptoms can be an aversion to bright light, an inability to speak or control movement and uncharacteristic behaviour.
His Holiness explains the seed of bodhicitta, which is the biologically innate compassion (the love that binds social animals together); aspects of attachment and aversion required for biological survival; and tantric meditations that take anger (but not ill will) �into the path�. Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary
Perhaps some of his aversion stemmed from uneasiness about his present assignment. TANK OF SERPENTS
I underwent aversion therapy for my addiction to smoking.
Rafters appreciated the functionality of the strappy footwear enough to overcome any aversion to the odd look.
The evaluation it is based on is that human lives are torn by contrary desires and strong aversions.
His illustrations now incorporated humor, history and fantasy, with a subsidiary line — since meeting the painter Richard Dadd — in sprites and fairies, that gave him licence to express his Celtic fancifulness and aversion to modernity without adopting the grave religiosity of the Pre-Raphaelites. 'The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes:
Fuller-figured endomorphs were given to viscerotonia, characterized by 'relaxation, extraversion of affect, love of food, sociality, etc'. The Times Literary Supplement
Possessed of intelligence and with doubts dispelled, an abandoner that is endowed with the quality of goodness hath no aversion for an unpleasant action and no attachment to pleasant The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
I suppose that they only prayer we have is that the infighting between Obama-nuts and Hillary-ites coupled with the GOPs own aversion to McCain coupled with whatever nincompoop he chooses as his VP will lead to the first time a third party can win the White House. Eight Edwards delegates now moving to Obama
I painted the nibbled area with a well known brand of chilli sauce as aversion therapy.
Yet I entertained such an abhorrence of the savage wretches that I have been speaking of, and of the wretched, inhuman custom of their devouring and eating one another up, that I continued pensive and sad, and kept close within my own circle for almost two years after this: when I say my own circle, I mean by it my three plantations - viz. my castle, my country seat (which I called my bower), and my enclosure in the woods: nor did I look after this for any other use than an enclosure for my goats; for the aversion which nature gave me to these hellish wretches was such, that I was as fearful of seeing them as of seeing the devil himself. Robinson Crusoe

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