repugnance

• “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

• “They remain current because they are potent illustrations of where racism leads; their ugliness, their repugnance, is manifest.”

  Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist?

• “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.

• “Worse than the sting of her repugnance was the thought that”

  Mr. Waddington of Wyck

• “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.”

  Cosmopolis — Complete

• “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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• “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

• “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

• “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

• “Glennard, taking the volume from his hand, glanced with a kind of repugnance at the interleaving of yellow cris-crossed sheets.”

  The Touchstone

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