How To Use Phobic In A Sentence
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I felt a bit claustrophobic in the tiny room.
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I even dragged my acrophobic mother up mountains in the Auvergne, only to leave her quivering halfway up while I persevered alone to the top.
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And in this self-regarding, claustrophobic atmosphere, he became disillusioned.
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Consequently, when characters share on-screen space, it is almost claustrophobic because of the heavy presence of repressed longings and unspoken desires.
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The paintings of the Post-Impressionists, including Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, which formerly hung in the claustrophobic, columned Bellechasse gallery, are cosseted now one floor below in small, elegant, midnight-blue galleries dedicated to the late scholar Françoise Cachin, who served as the museum's first director.
New Visions Arrive at the Orsay
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The primary binding pattern between caffeic acid and BSA included electrostatic and hydrophobic interaction, and the latter was identified to be the main force under physiological condition.
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I suppose this would be a bad time to mention that I'm claustrophobic?
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So does she not feel at all claustrophobic and cramped?
Times, Sunday Times
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No matter what flag-waving, hot blooded xenophobic ‘patriots’ will tell you, one person alone will never be able to change history.
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Many children acquire a phobic horror of dogs.
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He's old and it isn't gerontophobic to depict him that way.
Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll
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Wayne, you adorable homophobic mouthbreather you, stop being tiresome and crawl back under your rock.
It’s different when Conservatives do it.
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The program runs a helpline for victims of homophobic abuse.
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Less belligerent in its audience pandering than its predecessors (less fart jokes, less homophobic subtext, and - thank Jesus - less squawking from Eddie Murphy), Shrek the Third may not give haters a migraine, but its lobotomized sense of comic brinkmanship is still without fun.
GreenCine Daily: Shrek the Third.
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Nick Gevers said it best: "(the novel) tells in sumptuous claustrophobic detail just how alien -- and alienated -- a human society might become, portraying a mighty far-future city state driven by absolute standards of meritocracy turning against itself in hysteria and bloodshed
Jack Vance "To Live Forever" & other extravaganzas
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Viktor, who insists that he is not homophobic, harbors a secret fear of such unmacho things as pedicures.
George Heymont: Water, Water, Everywhere
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The pharmacophore included a hydrogen bond receptor, a hydrogen bond donor, a hydrophobic area and a phenyl ring with a chlorine or a bromine atom.
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The next stage of their attack – and attack is the time-honoured best form of defence, after all – is generally to repeat a variation of the hate speech of Janice Raymond as iterated in her transphobic screed The Transsexual Empire: the making of the she-male:
Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What
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Association colloids are formed in solutions of molecules that include both lyophilic and lyophobic regions.
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Some of those he encountered expressed strongly xenophobic views as the cameras rolled.
Times, Sunday Times
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Continued racist, sexist, homophobic, ageist, and ableist institutions and behavior create particular circumstances for these groups, usually disadvantaging them in their opportunity to develop their capacities.
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We humans are a very, very death phobic species. We will do almost anything to avoid the pain that acts based on the thanatos instinct can bring.
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I'd agree that it is head-and-shoulders above most sitcoms but it follows hackneyed gender traditions (men are blokeish and committment-phobic; women are insecure and needy).
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The atmosphere was somewhat claustrophobic.
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Popular character actor with a velvety voice, best remembered as the bull-headed, homophobic oil baron Blake Carrington on Dynasty.
Tallulah Morehead: Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses
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She had a sickening feeling of true flying for a moment before the shocking cold and utterly claustrophobic feeling of submersion in water enveloped her.
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Hydrophobicity has been recorded in dry, unburned soils but may be intensified by fire.
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Previously, our laboratory developed a new strategy to overcome BP hydrophilicity by masking the phosphonic acid with organic protecting groups and introducing hydrophobic functions in the side chain
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Certain non-addictive medications may also be helpful in switching phobic alarms off.
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Expanded, visually, beyond anything resembling the comparatively claustrophobic 1947 film which starred a wonderfully scrofulous Richard Attenborough, and imbued with a feverish morality that would have gratified Mr. Greene himself, the film is almost distractingly beautiful to look at, something that accentuates the tension between the film's conflicting quantities, i.e., the glories of the physical world, and the corrupted humanity it hosts.
'Idiot Brother': Silly, Satirical and Smart
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If I haven't mentioned this before, I'm severely arachnophobic.
Stephen King 0, Spider 1
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They exhibit a xenophobic intolerance , hating all creatures not like themselves.
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The continued increase in ouabain effect following washout is likely due to slow tissue diffusion of the hydrophobic drug.
PLoS Biology: New Articles
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Due to the hydrophobic nature of elastin, this amorphous, cross-linked protein is insoluble in water and many organic solvents.
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In singling out gay men, the offence bears the hallmarks of homophobic prejudice, and belongs to the less tolerant era.
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As you may know, this is still a very homophobic society and lots of our DJs make songs with anti gay lyrics.
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When appraising the films for pacing, however, it was decided the second film had enough tension without the arachnophobic scene, while the final film needed an extra dollop of Frodo.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Lessons from Lord of the Rings, Part 5
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This solvent is hydrophobic, meaning it mixes with oils and doesn't like water.
Food IngredientsFIrst News
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I wanted to make the audience feel as uncomfortable and claustrophobic as the victim.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only problem is this serial killer with his clone family is agoraphobic and acrophobic and won't go into space.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Starfire - Charles Sheffield
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The role of these structures in determining spore hydrophobicity, adhesion, dispersal, and resistance to environment stresses is poorly understood.
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James Stewart plays Scottie, an acrophobic private eye who receives an unusual assignment: to follow Madeleine (Kim Novak), the wife of an old friend, who is drifting around San Francisco in a dazed funk.
Vertigo: No 3
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She began to feel slightly better once they had left the claustrophobic confines of the house.
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I'm homophobic, I actually don't read well enough to get this book, I hate (insert virtually anything here), I am a hopeless snob who gratifies my ego by posting bad reviews.
"Chain, chain...every shadow, every face."
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In Germany, such open mass support has been more limited, generally not exceeding 10 percent, but outbursts of antiforeign violence, especially after reunification, have become more frequent and the expression of xenophobic sentiments more widespread.
Out of Control
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Also, the unusually isolated, claustrophobic setting of the town gives the atmosphere a real edge.
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According to some accounts, the expression "to fight like Kilkenny cats" dates back to a somewhat ailurophobic custom among Hessian soldiers stationed in Ireland: tying two cats together by the tails and hanging them over a fence or clothesline.
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The stalls are now too close together and the canopies too wide, making the passages between stalls narrow, uninviting, claustrophobic and sunless.
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The geography is much bigger, but it allowed me to juxtapose this massive Alaskan landscape with this very claustrophobic situation.
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Only four of those who perished on the claustrophobic clifftop almost exactly a year ago were granted the opportunity to exorcise those memories on the wide open spaces of Mount Florida.
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You are wiser about love and see that time spent with friends stops a relationship getting claustrophobic.
The Sun
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Full hide trim finished in a light grey make for a pleasantly unclaustrophobic cabin.
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If the Lords was convinced it was no longer necessary, it seems to me only a homophobic bigot would keep going on about it.
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‘Quanti canicula ille in fenestra’ on February 12, 2010 at 12: 07 am Claustrophobic inspector
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phobic disorder is a general term for all phobias
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In singling out gay men, the offence bears the hallmarks of homophobic prejudice, and belongs to the less tolerant era.
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I had never been a claustrophobic person, but I believe that on that evening I was truly experiencing the classic symptoms.
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-- OED self-deprecation, shabbiness and eccentricity - ochlophobic traits, to be sure
The Ochlophobist
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The ‘anaesthetised rhythm’ of hypnosis creates an extremely dense, claustrophobic atmosphere of interiority.
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It's too vaulty and therefore insufficiently claustrophobic, but it's boring verging on deathly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Handsome young Dickie Attenbrough plays a claustrophobic stoker.
My God, It's Full Of Tweets!
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I'm sick of hearing homophobic straight people talking about fags.
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It is clear that two different hydrophobic motifs are conserved in annelid species.
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Controversy surrounds the TV show, which many consider to be racist, sexist, and homophobic.
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The hour-and-a-half long film is set in the claustrophobic confines of a dingy hotel room.
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This film captures the claustrophobic feeling of people struggling against violence and poverty.
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Suffer catch animal saliva embedded hydrophobic poison.
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Attila - I've managed to totally cure myself of the racist and homophobic humour that was everywhere in my youth - and I no longer find lavatorial humour to be funny.
Heather Mills.
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To my right is the smaller young muscly man who now also keeps trying to attract my attention but I'm claustrophobic and I just want out of there but for some reason I'm stuck to my seat.
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It's not subtly or covertly homophobic for a soap to have a gay character experience homophobia, is it?
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What amazes me about this piece is not only MacLean's defense of the term, but also the comments on the article, most of which attempt to communicate the idea that using the word "pansification" is neither homophobic nor harmful, this despite the fact that Egale Canada received numerous emails and phone calls by people who were offended by the remark.
Ron MacLean, Mike Milbury, "Pansification"
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While shuttling between the late 1960s and new millennium, the focus lingers claustrophobically on one hot summer holiday, by the seaside, when Julian's father was called away from his family and back to the prison.
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However, these side chains do not fully occlude the pore but rather appear to form a hydrophobic barrier to ion permeation.
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But perhaps this could be considered prejudiced, xenophobic or a decidedly un-Christian attitude.
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Y.C. (2 stars) Limbo John Sayles explores Alaska in a schizzy tale that starts as an epic and ends, alas, as a claustrophobic, stuck-on-an-island melodrama.
Critical Moment: Reviews
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Let's put idiot right wingers and their xenophobic campaigns where they belong.
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I read that as a clear statement that she still holds to her transphobic views – and the subtext is as obnoxious as it is heavy-handed and unoriginal.
Tonight we’re going to party like it’s 1985
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The 1,750 sq ft bungalow is made up of three buildings connected by modules that act as light wells and avoid claustrophobic corridors.
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There is nothing biased or discriminatory or even vaguely xenophobic about this.
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One is taking a stroll down a critterly byroad and another isspeculating about the evolution of the gnome-phobic, fantasy-avoiding editor.
Archive 2006-06-01
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And he makes the astonishing statement that American society "is not gerontophobic now," for if it were, "we would be pushing the old into gas ovens or letting them die in squalor.
Growing Old: An Exchange
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Terrified and claustrophobic she vomited and evacuated her bowel and bladder.
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This bleak, violent, but moving film, based on a true-life case of homophobic murder in America's mid-west, carried a strongly feminist message and made no concessions to the multiplex audience.
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There can be legitimate objections, as well as xenophobic ones, to a large number of newcomers arriving in a certain area.
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They provide an evocative, if somewhat claustrophobic, experience.
Times, Sunday Times
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The possibilities for a true rhyme here are endless: an agoraphobic might want to substitute "lair," a friendly Frenchman "mon frere," a stolid German "mein herr," etc.
Michael Sigman: Sondheim's Lyrics: Rhymes, Reasons and Religion
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Previously, our laboratory developed a new strategy to overcome BP hydrophilicity by masking the phosphonic acid with organic protecting groups and introducing hydrophobic functions in the side chain
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Some, for example, are hydrophilic ( water lov - ing ) , whereas others are hydrophobic ( water fearing ) .
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When I was a youngster I used to hate it when my Mother dragged me round this place as it can get very busy and noisy, and the hustle and bustle I found to be claustraphobic.
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Of course, it will take time for us to know the exact figure of people who were displaced by the so-called xenophobic attacks in our country.
Speech by the Minister of Safety And Security, Charles Nqakula, during the Safety and Security (including Independent Complaints Directorate) Budget Vote
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When polymer concentration in higher than the critical aggregation concentration, the intermolecular hydrophobic ass.
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And since I had no desire to sleep in any more claustrophobic places, we quickly agreed to ski on.
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MRI scanning no longer involves entering a giant tube that some people find claustrophobic.
Times, Sunday Times
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The camerawork and claustrophobic atmosphere are designed to externally replicate his mental state.
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Curiously, Yang avoids the claustrophobic tension of the mineshaft.
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The narrow corridor and small doorways also contributes to the claustrophobic effect.
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This should be taken as an indication that the contributions of the hydrophilic and hydrophobic portions of the amphiphilic molecules to the free energy of interaction with the solvent phases are not independent.
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The hour-and-a-half long film is set in the claustrophobic confines of a dingy hotel room.
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However, scientists argue about whether hydrophobic or hydrophilic interactions are dominant.
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He says the problem now being faced by the Home Office comes from a group of racist and xenophobic white males who are attaching themselves to the English supporters club.
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Back then we dubbed their claustrophobic, brooding sound "Nightmare Pop", and with good reason.
The Line Of Best Fit
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In a second step, these helices are inserted into the hydrophobic environment of the detergent micelle.
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This ranges from casual remarks to serious agitation by the xenophobic right.
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Interestingly, people who favour making contact sports safer - let's call them "the liberals" - are often subject to sexist and homophobic slurs see "pansification" and
Thestar.com - Home Page
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To wake up on a foggy morning is to see a new mysterious world that has a cold, damp and claustrophobic atmosphere.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why are so many companies phobic about employing fat people?
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This is mainly the result of hydrophobic partitioning of individual detergent molecules at lipid and protein-lipid interfaces.
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For me I'm a little bit claustrophobic, so whenever I've had the sensory deprivation, the gags and the blindfolds and of course the heat I would get panicked.
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In order to further reveal his xenophobic nature, it would not be a bad idea to recall his extraordinary proposal that Gandhi should be bound hand and foot and trampled by viceregal elephants.
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Peering out at them from her dry, dehumidified office, the stout middle-aged human female pushed back her hydrophobic cap and smiled at her visitors.
Drowning World
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No one likes to be put in a box; this especially rings true for claustrophobic artists who are trying to break through to a mainstream audience.
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A short girl with a big rack, a guy who's lolicon to the very core, a lazy and deadpan manager, and of course a seriously androphobic girl who gets to punch the lead male around.
Anime Nano!
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I think we need to start using the term disability-phobic, to raise awareness about this, as in the descriptive and accurate term "homophobia
May 1 -- BADD -- Fear, avoidance, and the people we never get to know
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However, synthetics like polyester and nylon are naturally hydrophobic, so they repel the water and keep it away from the skin.
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Audiences feel appropriately claustrophobic in the close-up jail sequences, and appropriately exultant when Flynt's lawyer wins his case in front of the Supreme Court.
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This opinion was shared by Minister in the Presidency, Essop Pahad, who called the xenophobic violence which started on May 12 "dastardly" and "systematic attacks" which had no place in a democratic South
ANC Daily News Briefing
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This is a significant drawback because the dependency of intermembrane transfer on lipid hydrophobicity is a very useful criterion when assessing the mechanism of transfer.
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They dismiss such work as nihilist or antiscience, and hurl epithets like ‘number-phobic’ and ‘jargon-monger’ at its authors.
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In the most virulent homophobic works gays are effeminate, sarcastic males who lead meaningless lives; they disrupt families, are misogynists, and are marginal to black communities and institutions.
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The film's claustrophobic interiors also betray its stage origins and there are no real aerial sequences to provide relief.
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He was hypochondriacal and photophobic, believing that daylight could damage his eyes.
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The illness is key to the film's basic structure, careening between Hughes's high-flying grandiose business exploits and the suffocating rathole of his phobic hell.
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If any of you have seen an MRI tube, they tend to be small and cramped, difficult for claustrophobics to handle, and a tight enough squeeze for one person, let alone two.
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Young Americans came to view religion, according to one survey, as judgmental, homophobic, hypocritical, and too political.49 All these were premonitory signs that a second major aftershock was about to roil the American religious landscape.
American Grace
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The book doesn't hide behind a mantle of political correctness but challenges a range of homophobic attitudes, from repulsion and pity to tolerance and acceptance.
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The interactions include hydrophobic effect, site and isolation neighboring group participation effect at al.
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“Now, I think the whole argument of eurabia, an the fear of it, aside from being xenophobic BS and totally unstainable on philosophicall ethical grounds, bases itself on very poor sociology.”
African-American Homophobia May Explain Why California Voted For Proposition 8
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I think claustrophobic inspector hit it spot on about being dressed in his best trackies, shitty old jumper and probably the ebst lizzie duke rings he could muster or thieve.
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And when an actor plays opposite a great white shark and ultimately comes off as the tougher contender, as Mr. Scheider did as the small-town aquaphobic sheriff in "Jaws," it can cement a reputation and limit the roles sent an actor's way.
Putting 9/11 on Trial
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Now out of the claustrophobic lift, he was able to concentrate on Hyde.
THE LAST RAVEN
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cognoscenti" - elitist, agoraphobic, self-referential, intellectual narcissists with asthma and a tendency towards pasty skin and the use of words like "cognoscenti".
Truckeratlas Diary Entry
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Addition of collector or non-polar oil emulsion to extremely fine mineral suspension can intensify induction of hydrophobic flocculation of extremely fine mineral particles, forming floc.
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The anaesthetics bind in a hydrophobic pocket which is the normal binding site for a necessary cofactor.
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Its concerns are massively wider than the lowest common denominator of xenophobic prejudice to which the Sun consistently plays.
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Now is the time for homophobic legislation and talk to be seen for what it is: as shocking as racism, as unforgivable as antisemitism.
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Yesterday, amidst it all, one of my rabbonim, in a bekeishe, with peyot tightly curled down to his chin and a beard to his belly button, turned to us in shiur and asked if any of us were homophobic or anti-homosexual, and proceeded to chastise anyone who might harbor those views.
Jerusalem Pride March: it just keeps getting worse by Ariel | Jewschool
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To fill the channels with the aqueous buffer solution, the hydrophobic surface of PDMS was wetted with ethanol, which was gradually replaced by water.
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"Great, now I'm starting to get claustrophobic," she whined.
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Derek Jarman opens his claustrophobic, skyless Caravaggio with the feverish artist on his shadowy deathbed.
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Luckily, the state's xenophobic legislation doesn't apply to me, a private citizen.
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Many business owners also know that there are certain nightmare customers that one simply does not want to do business with, no matter what the circumstances, and it is your ochlophobic employee that is most suitable for the task of allowing that would-be customer to feel that this is not the place to do business.
The Ochlophobist
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In these studies we have immobilized a wide range of hydrophobic zwitterions onto a reversed-phase chromatographic support to produce the desired zwitterionic stationary phase.
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They loved the charming exterior and intimate feel of the 1939 saltbox, but the interior layout of boxy little rooms was slightly claustrophobic.
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A second-rate novelist and a furtively fabricating social commentator, he was homophobic, anti-feminist, unsociable, anti-intellectual, authoritarian and latently violent.
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Terrified and claustrophobic she vomited and evacuated her bowel and bladder.
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Now out of the claustrophobic lift, he was able to concentrate on Hyde.
THE LAST RAVEN
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He's a misogynist, homophobic, woman hater.
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By the second year, this xenophobic propensity has ripened into expressions of full-blown fear and hostility.
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They've filled their almost-claustrophobic room with towering flower bouquets and perhaps a few too many obsequious waiters.
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From the arachnophobic and simply dim Locum family solicitor Lucia Dolan.
Law Society Gazette: Mail Readers Hysterically Anti HRA
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(Julia Garro) "The biggest finding that comes from this report really is that homophobic and transphobic bullying is really neither rare nor harmless," said Tracey Peter, coinvestigator for the survey and an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Manitoba, at a panel discussion of the findings on Apr 1.
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Mia was the only cat their that lashed out at us as she appeared to be anthropophobic.
WN.com - Articles related to Don't fry in the sun
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All the technophobic hippie woo-woo junk science damages their argument.
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Lucky for him, I was agoraphobic at the time, and could barely make it to the corner shop without necking a month's supply of Valium.
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The dermal barrier composition is moisture activated, and remains inert until the hydrophobic and hydrophilic polymer emulsions contact a suitable substrate such as human skin.
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Researchers throughout the world have been striving to invent superhydrophobic materials for products such as antifouling paint, self-cleaning garments, or coatings on airplanes to prevent ice buildup.
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Perhaps if you did some work on the subject, you would realise that the real bravery is exhibited by those TS/TG people who live in another gender role, in a country where kneejerk transphobic reactions – like yours – are not only tolerated, but given airtime on national television.
Qatar: TS/TG people – human beings or behavioural deviants?
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Two men sit in a small, claustrophobic room, cigarette smoke curling through the soft light.
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These results were similar to previously reported values for polystyrene and showed high hydrophobicity.
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The other side mixes explicit images of a pier and a cloudy sky with oppressive, claustrophobic interiors.
The Times Literary Supplement
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So yeah, I'm homophobic and I could be mistaken for being a racist bigot too.
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As this cloistered, claustrophobic existence begins to give way to outside pressure, the pathos of Lamb and Doggo's stories is made pitifully real.
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They are very, very tiny and extremely claustrophobic, with tiny pedals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many children acquire a phobic horror of dogs.
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Add the stimulus package and all the bridges built by illegals using that money, and you have a quadfecta of xenophobic populism.
Keg of populist ire on tap
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If this sounds a little claustrophobic, head to the Szechenyi baths, in City Park, where on a Sunday morning we found legions of men and women luxuriating in its outdoor pools.
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We do not accept, however, that to reject homoerotic sexual practice as sinful is in itself homophobic.
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That ties into my main feeling that the layout feels cramped and a little claustrophobic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Apart from the fact that Freeh is a hacktacular freak, it will be interesting to see how the famously computerphobic former G-man wades into all this email and IM info.
Think Progress » REPORT: Hastert Picks Ex-FBI Chief Louis Freeh To Overhaul Page Program
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Modestly ambitious and highly successfully within its chosen territory, Dead Snow proves to be one of the punchiest horror flicks in recent memory and one of the more capable within its low-budget constraints; the silent, lifeless landscapes make for a chilling tension-builder between each over-the-top set piece, while a memorable third-act shot of a character trapped beneath the snow is more nightmarishly claustrophobic than anything in The Descent.
Archive 2009-10-01
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I've known moms to be phobic of anything with an appliqué, certain colors, non-natural fibers, or frilly headbands.
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Instantly, their bumbling antics transform the movie into a juvenile farce of racist, sexist and homophobic slurs—no, it's not funny.
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Usually dark, damp and stained, with imagined muggers lurking in the shadows, they are claustrophobic places to escape from as fast as possible.
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Within the hydrophobic environment in the center of the green fluorescent protein, a reaction occurs between the carboxyl carbon of Ser65 and the amino nitrogen of Gly67 that results in the formation of an imidazolin-5-one heterocyclic nitrogen ring system (as illustrated in Figure 2).
Archive 2005-10-01
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The tale has strong resonances in Eva Sallis's own life… a world of home-schooling, prodigious talent and claustrophobic expectation.
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The lower efficiency of surfactants with large headgroups can be understood as a steric effect, where a bulky headgroup sterically hinders the hydrophobic residues on the peptide from interacting with the micelle core.
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Won't be showing this entry to my hubby because he's insanely arachnophobic but these are definitely pretty wreck-tastic.
The Spider Wreck Chronicles
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Someday the 31% of us - gay and straight, will foredo the uptight self-righteous homophobic elitists and see just a bit more constitutional civil rights in the U.S.
Isn't it queer
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Two aides have been arrested in connection with a serious homophobic assault on a gay policy adviser.
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This literal difference in duration does not detract from a work's capacity to induce hypnotic, mind-numbing, humorous or even claustrophobic effects.
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Both molecules are facially amphiphilic, meaning they possess several polar, or charged chemical groups on one side of the molecule, and hydrophobic groups on the other side.
Medlogs - Recent stories
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What advice do you expect to get from a xenophobic Cold War warrior dripping in petty prejudices and half-baked homilies?
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The narrow confines of the inner solar system seem claustrophobic compared to the asteroid belt.
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As a certified Sodomite, attuned to homophobic undercurrents, I'm intently aware of subtext in narratives, how superficially fun and fluffy entertainment can carry the dodgiest of messages.
Archive 2010-05-01
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As protesters with rainbow flags mourned the victims and condemned the homophobic sentiment assumed to be behind the attack, police hunted for the assailant.
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I've known moms to be phobic of anything with an appliqué, certain colors, non-natural fibers, or frilly headbands.
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He drew the ire of a gay rights group that has previously defended the actor when he was accused of homophobic language.
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Some homophobic views were probably softened through empathy, while others hardened amid increasing vitriol directed at the gay community.
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Gay artists have a real reason to fear homophobic rejection, or at least a dimming of enthusiasm, from the headbangers in the pit.
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Tammy, I get the same effect, it's a kind of claustrophobic thing, like don't put me in a room alone with it!
Facing Down the Beast: Dior Hypnotic Poison
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The book's zonked philosophizing about the nature of reality wears a little thin, but Lethem's claustrophobic vision of a world where everything is connected and nothing is as it seems proves both funny and frightening.
Chronic City: Summary and book reviews of Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem.
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Most of her closest adult friends, both male and female, had same-sex partners, and the norm of her youth was homosocial, if not heterophobic.
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In humid tropical areas, or areas with heavy rainfall, it may be advisable to purchase "hydrophobic" cement, since this kind of cement can be stored in damp conditions for long periods of time.
Chapter 6
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HTV silicone rubbers filled with three types of fumed nano silica were also prepared for comparison with HTV silicone rubber reinforced by hydrophobic nano silica sol.
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He is a thanatophobic fucktard with a persecution complex and possibly a napoleon complex.
Pharyngula
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The ‘Where’ is the campus of the alternative high school, ‘the claustrophobic madhouse.’
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Some protesters were even being accused of using racist and homophobic slurs against some lawmakers.
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The air itself is claustrophobic; you wipe your brow with a hand already dripping.
Times, Sunday Times
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For individuals with phobic anxiety, these tasks include graded exposure to progressively more difficult avoided situations.
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Xenophobic nationalism is on the rise in some West European countries.