Word: disgust
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...didn’t long for Rapunzel’s long tresses? The moral of these memories: just one slipper, two kisses, three balls, and four brave princes later, these good females were rescued from bad fruit and several very wicked witches. In spite of the well-justified feminist disgust for these pathetic Disney damsels (has anyone really listened to Snow White’s pre-pubescent vocal tones?), I can’t help feeling nostalgic for a time when a man saved his woman. Before bad boy meant good catch, and before nice guy meant lame date. Before...
Good to hear them again-the marine drill sergeants' obscene arias of disgust and contempt (see also Full Metal Jacket and Heartbreak Ridge) as they begin the process of stripping young American males of their individuality, any tendency they might have to think for themselves or harbor the odd, rebellious thought. These early passages in every modern combat movie are designed to induce a state of shock and awe in its viewers, soften us up for the horrors to come. We laugh, we cringe, we begin looking forward to the transformation of these innocents into lean, mean killing machines...
...gained. Twice, Harvard took possession in Big Red territory off a Cornell mistake. And twice, struggling sophomore quarterback Liam O’Hagan threw an interception on the following play.“Too many mistakes,” O’Hagan said afterwards, shaking his head in disgust. “I put that on me, not thinking the right things out there sometimes, and it cost us the football game.”On Harvard’s first possession, the Crimson’s turnover trouble reared its ugly head immediately. Junior kick returner Neil Sherlock...
...language for a deaf audience of some 100,000. But instead of repeating the official announcement that Yushchenko had lost, she signed instead: "Yushchenko is our President. Do not believe the Central Electoral Commission. They are lying." Says Dmitruk: "I expected there would be hell to pay, but the disgust I felt about all that lying forced out the fear." Dmitruk's personal rebellion triggered a wider revolt. First, other UT-1 journalists refused to broadcast the official line, and then almost every other channel in the country joined in. Within a day, all of Ukraine knew that Yushchenko...
...reprised the same theme last week in a briefing with House members on Capitol Hill, insisting that the federal response had been far better than advertised. In essence, he was telling politicians to believe the Administration rather than their own eyes. Some Democrats walked out of the briefing in disgust. "He's a great lawyer, very smart and extremely decent," the top aide to a G.O.P. Senator says of Chertoff. "But he's a lousy politician...