How To Use Repugnance In A Sentence
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In fact, now he looked closely at him for the first time, he felt a kind of repugnance to him, mingled with a strange feeling of doubt whether a man or a woman stood before him.
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
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Should any gentleman place himself near enough to have his person touched by the playful fingers of the pleasure-seeker, and evince no repugnance, the latter turns around and, after a short conversation, the bargain is struck.
Satyricon
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His particular affinity is with the Spanish modems, several of whom he has translated; his own poems make similar broad, confident statements of repugnance and loyalty.
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It was indeed Julien, whom she had seen approach the house at the very instant when she was only separated from the abyss by that last tremor of animal repugnance, which is found even in suicide of the most ardent kind.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Moral insensibility, which is decidedly more congenital than contracted, is either total or partial, and is displayed in criminals who inflict personal injuries, as much as in others, with a variety of symptoms which I have recorded elsewhere, and which are eventually reduced to these conditions of the moral sense in a large number of criminals -- a lack of repugnance to the idea and execution of the offence, previous to its commission, and the absence of remorse after committing it.
Criminal Sociology
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In a review of Death in Venice, Lawrence shows his repugnance for the amount of repression involved in the Flaubert / Mann method of composition.
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I could write poetry that expresses my repugnance toward being deceived.
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To my astonishment, Beavers did not respond with the veneer of civility that usually masks his repugnance.
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I was willing to overlook, mostly, the various implausibilities, the sentimental bleeh involving the volleyball, the character's basic repugnance.
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She was trying to overcome her physical repugnance for him.
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The picture is sexually frank, while expressing a certain repugnance at the decadence prevalent in Europe after the Great War.
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Gilb's portrayal of the titular character is particularly striking, effortlessly balancing eroticism and repugnance in each swoop of her floor-length gown.
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The thought of eating meat fills me with repugnance.
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I was struggling my hardest against the temptation to laugh, but the look of hideous repugnance on her face coaxed the hilarity out of me, and I found myself trying not to laugh as I answered my name in the register.
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She have a deep repugnance to the idea of accepting charity.
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But because of its success combined with its repugnance, spam is changing the very culture of the Internet with sorry results.
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I cannot overcome my repugnance to eating snails.
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He takes effective aim at those who sacralize the genome, or claim a ‘right’ to an unaltered genome, or base opposition to particular practices on intuitive feelings of repugnance or on undefended claims about what it means to be human.
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And far from bored, 'scunnered' implies loathing, repugnance or disgust.
Times, Sunday Times
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And I can still recall my repugnance when I was told that a couple of bored clerks in Dwyer's of Washington Street had come in early the morning of his execution and enacted a satirical mime of his last minutes
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IT has been said of the Persians that in their zeal to purify the sensualized faiths which everywhere prevailed they manifested a decided "repugnance to the worship of images, beasts, or symbols, while they sought to establish the worship of the only true creative force, or God -- Holy Fire.
The God-Idea of the Ancients
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Sometimes she went back to Holland to see her family, who regarded her visits with repugnance because she talked of her outlandish adventures, wore strange comitadji-cum-deaconess clothes, smoked big black cigars, and was still a believing Christian of the ecstatic sort.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV
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She felt a deep sense of shame and repugnance.
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It is as if the early engagement of many of them with anarchism had left behind a permanent repugnance for the political struggle.
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She brought to Russia not only the haemophilic gene of her grandmother, but a sincere prudery, a deeply religious mind, and a repugnance for the rituals and empty pomp of court life.
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Yet the point where empathy and understanding end and interest wanes, giving way to outright repugnance, is reached when Eros throws himself violently into the arms of Thanatos as if to merge with him, when love seeks to find its highest and purest form, indeed its fulfilment, in death.
GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts.
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At the very time that I was at Adyar, and despite a certain repugnance to "occultism," sympathetically appreciating the serene harmony of the
The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891
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Discrimination need have nothing to do with hatred or repugnance toward those against whom it is applied.
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To pass a second night at an inn, seemed, even in the calculations of her own harassed faculties, utterly improper; and thus, driven to extremity, she forced herself to order a chaise for home; though with a repugnance to so compulsatory a meeting, that made her wish to be carried in it a corpse.
Camilla
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I feared the vengeance of the disappointed fiend, yet I was unable to overcome my repugnance to the task which was enjoined me.
Chapter 18
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I at first encountered much repugnance on the part of the inhabitants to excavate the tombs; finally, with some money and very long explanations, I brought them to terms and, thanks to my tomb-hunters, I found and excavated the necropoli of Horil,
The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
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The result of releasing these photographs would be, most likely, initial shock followed by disgust, contempt and repugnance.
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Here he stopped a moment to reconnoitre the gate through which he had to pass; and seeing, even at that distance, many soldiers on guard, his imagination also being rather overstrained, (one must pity him; for he had had enough to unsettle it), he felt a kind of repugnance at encountering the passage.
Chapter XVI
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But, intimately acquainted with the Kirshner world through his familial ties, Andras's repugnance is complicated by a potent blend of envy, exile, and secret longing.
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They remain current because they are potent illustrations of where racism leads; their ugliness, their repugnance, is manifest.
Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist?
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Until the climax of the sexual erethism, woman is for man the acme of supreme desire; but with detumescence the emotions tend to swing to the opposite pole, and excitement and longing are forgotten in the mood of repugnance and exhaustion.
Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family
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Though he was positively influenced by the role of the State in France and Germany, he sometimes expressed his repugnance at what he found to be an excess of State intervention in these countries.
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We will hear the old arguments about "repugnance" and the rest of us may again be potential victims of this socially destructive, anti-science, proto-fascist attitude that is certainly more dangerous to the public than any cluster of cells in a Petri dish.
Dan Agin: Stem Cells Redux: There Will Be Blood
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We should not confound uncharity with a sort of natural repugnance and antipathy, instinctive to some natures, betraying a weakness of character, if you will, but hardly what one could call a clearly defined fault.
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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Ellis boldly probes - and speculates about - such matters as Washington's formative experiences, romantic life, sources of wealth, and evolving repugnance toward slavery.
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Everyone was put off by his appearance at first, and had to fight to control a reaction of repugnance.
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She was trying to overcome her physical repugnance for him.
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The shogun was a misogynist, and Yasuaki understood well that men who profess to hate women become the slave of the fair sex when their alleged repugnance is overcome.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
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To this same repugnance for his catchpoll work do I owe it that at the moment of setting out he offered to let me ride without the annoyance of an escort if I would pass him my parole not to attempt an escape.
Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...
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Marlow knows that there is a great deal of repugnance in what he is doing, yet he finds himself forced to deal with it in his own personal way, which is justify it or ignore it.
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Balzac once wrote that ‘the most natural emotions are those we acknowledge with the most repugnance.’
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Now, because he was her client, she tried to look with compassion instead of disdain or repugnance at his unskillful behavior and all the ways he shut himself off.
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Whether mutual repugnance might then one day be transformed into mutual sufferance, or even mutual toleration, remains to be seen.
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It may be remembered that Archibald, in what we may term his soporific period, had manifested a strong, although entirely irrational, repugnance to this east chamber.
Archibald Malmaison
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Just then Edward handed Doctor Instow a goodly rasher of broiled ham, upon which was a perfectly poached egg; and directly after the man came round behind Jack, and quietly placed before him, with a whisper of warning that the plate was very hot, another rasher of ham, and at the first sight of it the lad began to shrink, but at the second glance, consequent upon a brave desire not to show his repugnance, he saw that it was a different kind of rasher to the doctor's, and that there was no egg.
Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy
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As long as you are prepared for the repugnance, you will more or less enjoy this graphic, gritty cinematic experiment.
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The poem is written by a narrator who looks back at '48 with a mixture of affection and repugnance; mainly the latter.
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One empathised with him and his longing to stroke things that enabled him to retreat from a world where people with his mental disability are treated with repugnance and lack of understanding.
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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
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Sometimes an interpretation can even transform an experience of art from repugnance to appreciation and understanding.
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Kyle stuck his tongue out when he stepped in mud; there was still the slight repugnance in his voice.
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It is simply a repugnance on the part of any lawyer to the idea that one can simply take a period in gross at any point and apply it many, many years later to create a right which might be quite inconsistent with intervening events.
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And now that repugnance is very nearly annihilated how strange it would be to say we forbid you under severe legal restrictions from using this precaution which has been so long, so diffusively, so earnestly and so effectually recommended.
Letter 111
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The initial intuitive repugnance that Lyndsay feels at the idea of racial mixture is ratified by her empirical experience.
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Worse than the sting of her repugnance was the thought that
Mr. Waddington of Wyck
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When dying the unfortunate musician bequeathed his daughter to the doctor, who was already her godfather, in spite of his repugnance for what he called the mummeries of the Church.
Ursula
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Now, because he was her client, she tried to look with compassion instead of disdain or repugnance at his unskillful behavior and all the ways he shut himself off.
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Perhaps as the American framers conceived of the operation of their system, a wide spread and deeply felt, national, sense of repugnance, a feeling that democratic and constitutional values are being held in contempt is enough in constitutional terms to self-define conduct as “high crime and misdemeanour.”
Balkinization
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For no one can look at the primordia of the human frame-blood, flesh, bones, vessels, and the like-without much repugnance.
On the Parts of Animals
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But no repugnance, no horror, unsteadies my hand elsewhere.
The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton
