How To Use Revulsion In A Sentence

In November of 1997, after a massacre in Luxor that killed fifty-eight tourists and provoked overwhelming revulsion, Egypt's Gamaa al-Islamiya halted its armed struggle. Backfire
Even a short tour of the museum fills you with disgust and revulsion once you overcome your disbelief.
I felt a revulsion against the long isolation that writing imposes, the claustration, the sense of exclusion; I experienced a thrill of distaste for the alternative life that writing is supposed to represent.
I did indeed feel a certain admiration but it was mixed with revulsion that I was now implicated in blackmail just by knowing about it.
Interestingly, what makes the movie work is precisely that it does (I assume deliberately) seem creepy at the outset: The director wants your initial response to be a certain unease, if not revulsion. Of Human Bondage

Revulsion at the thought, fear of the act; his mind recoiled from it, seeking sanctuary, finding it at once. LOHENGRIN
Zarr's hair, his eyes, and some of his internal viscera remained with his bones prompting some of the terrified members of his party to retch with revulsion.
My feeling for him undergo a revulsion when I discover his cruelty.
I rolled my eyes and curled my upper lip in feigned revulsion.
Tens of thousands attended rallies to express their revulsion at the one-sided conflict and the slaughter of thousands of Iraqis.
The new religious revival is fueled by a revulsion with the corruptions of contemporary society.
On the other hand, the ancient revulsion against emasculation, effeminacy, and males assuming, or forced into, the passive role of females is far less pervasive today.
Drawn by a total revulsion of ideas from the chain of thinking that had led him to composition, he relinquished his annotations in resentment of this dismission, when he might have pursued them uninterruptedly without neglect of other avocations. Camilla
Saki shrunk in fear and revulsion as he approached her.
While most of us are all too willing to cuddle guinea pigs, rabbits, gerbils, pet mice and even ferrets, brown rats produce a reaction of almost universal revulsion.
He's developed a visceral revulsion toward his fellow humans, a profoundly misanthropic impulse that he dresses up in the sonorous language of ‘biophilia.’
The revulsion we still feel when women rather than men commit murders became revulsion squared.
He had a revulsion against his neighbor.
Now defendants in criminal cases often are charged with offences which would fill ordinary people with horror, disgust and revulsion.
Instead, there are signs of growing public revulsion over assembly-line executions and rampant police brutality and corruption.
Hamlet," and then create a revulsion of feeling by somersaulting over the centre-fire of the circle and standing on his head before it, grinning diabolically at the incensed pot? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
said Michael with revulsion as if Charley had confessed to infecting Holly with some unmentionable disease. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
I have to admire their persistence in the face of overwhelming odds of getting laughed off the beach, if not pantsed and having their lunch money taken away, but that's more than offset by the revulsion generated in response to the smug arrogance and presumptuousness of these missionaries. Where Would Jesus Spend Spring Break?
Lilith walked with grace and ease down the short corridor, looking around in revulsion at the peeling mauve wallpaper and creaking old floor.
The tension induced by this self-revulsion, at odds with his need for creative stasis, is born out of guilt.
Since the story centers on a disabled woman's body, revulsion is a culturally supported reaction.
Culture’s fear of the unknown and special revulsion toward the sexually deformed is analyzed in psychological and artistic terms in ‘Low-Flying Aircraft’. Ballardian » 'Like Alice in Wonderland': Solveig Nordlund on J.G. Ballard
I guess I'd be a capitalist in that I like liberty for consequentialist reasoning (lots of people flee their crappy countries for prosperity in the U. S, few go in the other direction) and have some distaste or even revulsion for libertines. Tyler on the Problems of Libertarians, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
It came as a shock to me that not all men share this revulsion at body fat.
If labelling is to be effective, it is important that embarrassment, revulsion and even disgust be generated in the public mind.
She raised her hand in front of her face and stared at it in shock and revulsion as she saw the drying blood there.
He had, if not a revulsion towards the pagan priesthood, then a fear of them and their devotion to their heathen religion.
Each new boyfriend or girlfriend sent a frisson of anxiety through the group that grew into a wave of revulsion.
Eventhen I had an instinctive revulsion toward men who start everything andnever carry anything out These jacks-of-all-trades were loathsome to me. Mein Kampf
My euphoria evaporated and was replaced by something closer to moral revulsion.
She followed him up the protesting stairs, revulsion seething in her chest. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
It is when she feels compassion, rather than revulsion, for the salamander and kisses him that the spell breaks.
Overcoming initial incredulity and long-standing revulsion for this raddled adventurer, from March 1790 the royal couple paid Mirabeau for support in the Assembly and regular advice.
Scales will fall swiftly from people's eyes as they contemplate this piece of Jackbootism on the part of Gordon Brown and his henchpersons and they will recoil in distaste and revulsion from conduct which most associate not with the home of Parliamentary Democracy but with the likes of Soviet Russia, Castro's Cuba, Mugabe's Zimbabwe or Hitler's Germany. Archive 2008-11-30
But that sort of clear thinking completely disregards the romance and revulsion offered up by this particular turn of events.
The worldwide revulsion that followed was such that JDR decided to hire the most talented press agent in the country, Ivy Lee, who got the tough assignment of whitewashing the tycoon's bloodied image.
Stassy couldn't find the words to get her point across, so she let her sneer of revulsion and displeasure do the talking for her.
The punishment should adequately reflect the revulsion felt by most people for this appalling crime.
Her scorn would be as difficult to face as Richard's revulsion. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
an intuitive revulsion
This revulsion of feeling is called satiety or weariness. The Ethics
It's the opposite of a quiet death - it's death by intemperance, spite, righteous anger, the nausea of revulsion. SPLITTING
She had a revulsion against the whole affair, and almost envied the Guthrie girls their gawky inexperience and crude maidenliness. Lady Chatterley's Lover
He was the target of years of bitter denunciation, even revulsion, from the left over his moderate policies, but subsequent events demonstrated he was right and they were wrong.
Revulsion against Nazi eugenics is deep and uncontroversial.
But at what point does the intended sex appeal or fashion liberation border on vulgarity, obscenity, and revulsion?
Ah, Miss Rondel had spied him and not recoiled in revulsion. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
The prime minister's open display of contempt for democratic accountability has only deepened the revulsion felt towards him.
So saying, and the revulsion of his spirits rendering him unable to give almost any other signs of existence, Ursel sunk back upon his seat of captivity, and spoke not another word during the time that Alexius disembarrassed him of those chains which had so long hung about him, that they almost seemed to make a part of his person. Count Robert of Paris
My feeling for him undergo a revulsion when I discover his cruelty.
He even uncovered, to his revulsion, a tiny lacy pink thong.
In fact the tension between Weil's revulsion toward and attraction to violence informs, indeed propels, the essay (in her first paragraph she describes the implacable power of force in sexually submissive terms, and avers that for those perceptive enough to place violence at the center of human history, "the Iliad is the purest and the loveliest of mirrors"). The Lost Crusade
Widespread public revulsion at the executions exacerbated a growing alienation from the British administration in Ireland.
It's a work fuelled by revulsion, by misanthropy in general, not specifically by homophobia.
To some extent, the revulsion felt by blogging's first wave is based on this.
Her feelings of fear, anger, and revulsion brought the return of her hysteria and nausea crept into her throat.
A slicker actor would have cued revulsion in children, but here the icky inevitability of movie clinches had been thwarted.
Many American middle-class women, for example, expressed their revulsion at what they saw as the dirty and uncivilized nature of Irish women.
The man who dwells for long periods face to face with the bitter truths of life learns so to distrust a fleeting moment of joy, gives habitually so cold a reception to the tardy messenger of delight, that, when the bright guest outdares his churlishness and perforce tarries with him, there ensues a passionate revulsion unknown to hearts which open readily to every fluttering illusive bliss. The Unclassed
The latter term evokes a distant echo to disgust, a moral revulsion that verges on physical recoil.
I turned away in revulsion when they showed a close-up of the operation.
Ryeland ran, climbed, swung himself over the fence, ripped off his clothes, balled and hid them under a body and flung himself, naked and acrawl with revulsion, onto the heap of pale, cold corpses. Starchild Omnibus
This affects my entire perception of the city, filling me with disquiet, antipathy and even a certain revulsion.
But it is not moral revulsion, let alone newsworthiness, that is animating the news media.
She stared at the snake in revulsion.
Do these schools have any idea of the feelings of revulsion a statement like that on their websites provokes?
Your face would cloud over and the gloppity sounds would decelerate with revulsion. MUSIC FOR BOYS
Doug stuck his tongue in her ear and Diana shuddered in revulsion.
Your face would cloud over and the gloppity sounds would decelerate with revulsion. MUSIC FOR BOYS
The punishment should adequately reflect the revulsion felt by most people for this appalling crime.
The blood and gore can cause revulsion even in the most hardy.
She felt a deep sense of revulsion at the violence.
But I defy you to watch the film and not turn away, or at least feel genuine revulsion, at several points.
Despite its revulsion at the atrociousness of the law, the appeals court did not take the next logical step and void the law completely.
What all the third wave coffee people have in common is a thinly veiled revulsion at Starbucks and its rivals, in particular the way they overroast their beans," Josh Ozersky. WN.com - Articles related to Starbucks to pay its first dividend
For many of us, food has become tied into cycles of guilt and pleasure, desire and revulsion.
Your face would cloud over and the gloppity sounds would decelerate with revulsion. MUSIC FOR BOYS
He expressed his revulsion at/against/towards the whale hunting.
The killing caused widespread revulsion.
We fear that many viewers will share Dr Weaver's revulsion at the ‘psycho’ who killed Lucy and maimed Carter.
It is hard not to feel a certain revulsion for so detached and apparently inhuman an attitude to childbearing.
But it is not moral revulsion, let alone newsworthiness, that is animating the news media.
Dave's gut did a kind of backflip in revulsion as the boy briefly dissolved into a cloud of smoke, then faded back in again. Children Of The Night
The killing caused widespread revulsion.
While most of us are all too willing to cuddle guinea pigs, rabbits, gerbils, pet mice and even ferrets, brown rats produce a reaction of almost universal revulsion.
A voice piercing from the deep could not have caused in Camilla a more immediate revulsion of ideas; but she was silent, in her turn, and he led her along the beach, while Mrs. Berlinton, attended by a train of beaux, went to her carriage, where, thus engaged, she contentedly waited. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
One reads this account of their activities and comes away with an overwhelming sense of visceral revulsion: The Saatchi brothers stink!
Catholic and Protestant, mainly young people, held the vigil to show their revulsion at a senseless waste of a life.
I mean that if I had uncovered my face by a sheer effort of will, unhelped by any revulsion of feeling, I should have done a thing much more worthy of mention. Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
She felt revulsion at his appearance.
I went off into a day punctuated by involuntary shudders of revulsion as the sensations were recalled.
We should argue about how things are, not seek to win arguments with vacuous comparisons designed to evoke revulsion without thought.
If unalleviated, existential boredom can lead to a state of complete indifference or even revulsion toward the world, such as that described by the Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca: How long will things be the same? Accidie? Ennui? Sigh . . .
But motherly warmth turns cold beside the journalistic revulsion the Molinari gambit provokes.
The idea of the body as a barrier to the unreachable outside world is an interesting one, but we learn so little about Esther that sympathy turns finally to revulsion.
In a statement the NP expressed shock and revulsion at what it called the senseless and cold-blooded murders. ANC Daily News Briefing
She had a moment of revulsion at this vision of the way her unbidden mind worked. FAMILY PICTURES
News of the atrocities produced a wave of anger and revulsion.
I feel utter revulsion at the people that did this.
The mention of Gedge's name cowed Reginald in an instant, and in the sudden revulsion of feeling which ensued he was glad enough to escape from the room before fairly breaking down under a crushing sense of injury, mortification, and helplessness. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life
In the South, the southern suburb, and the Beqaa, people were mad too, but they directed their rage at Israel, and provisionally at the Lebanese government, run by men like Jumblatt and Saad Hariri who seemed to sneer with bourgeois revulsion when confronted by the basse classe Islamic Resistance. A Privilege to Die
The absence of skin, odour and blood means that many visitors are surprised that they do not feel instinctive revulsion.
But the shame and the revulsion, the eyes like a mourning shroud, would torment his mind.
But what's this "sense of revulsion" that has come over Ann, just from a chance encounter with "gainsaid"? "It cannot be gainsaid..."
While most of us are all too willing to cuddle guinea pigs, rabbits, gerbils, pet mice and even ferrets, brown rats produce a reaction of almost universal revulsion.
How can one responsibly teach writers who use the reader's revulsion and horror as necessary responses?
I started to feel a revulsion against their decadent lifestyle.
I understand the impulse to focus one's moral revulsion on the perpetrators.
In other such jokes, like an instance of the Aristocrats joke, the jokesmith piles on horrifying detail after horrifying detail, and the audience gets put in a squirming, uneasy state of revulsion, which is stimulating perhaps this is similar to the way in which a suspense or horror film can be stimulating, and can heighten the comedy. Empirical falsifiability
But there's much more to the play than the gay plotline; Marlowe shows us the barbaric and childish behavior of a king with few limits on his power, and the rebellion of his barons is not a revulsion to the gender of the king's lover, it is against his lowly station in life; he's not one of them. August 2005
But I think the real culprit behind the "LJ Hates Primp" tip is an innate revulsion I have towards "- mp" words. NOGOODFORME.COM
She felt a deep sense of revulsion at the violence.
Gripped by a sense of revulsion at the ongoing murder campaign, several thousand heeded his call and took to the street outside City Hall.
News of the atrocities produced a wave of anger and revulsion.
She tried to imagine, but couldn't because of the tug-of-war of revulsion and curiosity going on inside her. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
said Michael with revulsion as if Charley had confessed to infecting Holly with some unmentionable disease. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Local issues, not national spectacles, dictate whether or not people vote Dem or Rep. I don't hold anything against Republican candidates in my state because of my revulsion of Sarah Palin, senior nutjob from the Great State of Alaska. Poll: GOP makes gains in battle for Congress
On the other side of town, in a quiet brasserie near the Royal Garden, the thought of some collective “group hug” inspires revulsion in Hans Rustad, the founder of the rightwing site, document.no.
A wave of revulsion washed through my body and mind as I sat, motionless, mere inches from him.
He expressed his revulsion at/against/towards the whale hunting.
He is losing public sympathy, not out of revulsion over his dissolute private life, but rather as a result of allegations that he abused his office to secure perks for his lovers, including a visa for his mistress's nanny.
More so even than honest emotion or unevaded truth, genuine originality inspires a gut revulsion on the rare occasion it's encountered. MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature
Above all, each coalition owed as much to a revulsion from old attachments as to the attractions of new ones.

How To Use Revulsion In A Sentence

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