Word: disgust
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...afternoonin New Orleans, some two dozen padded, helmeted 14- and 15-year-olds huddled on an inner-city ball field for practice. During one drill, a lineman lurched at the running back, nipped his jersey and bear-hugged nothing but Big Easy air. The coach blew a whistle in disgust and stomped toward the offensive tackler. "When are you going to hit him?" barked Tomaris Bolds-Jackson, 38, a mother of four. "You have to hit him. You're playing football...
...that would photograph him and then produce images supposedly reflecting what the child would look like as he aged into his 60s. Gullette, who attended the exhibit while in the process of writing Aged by Culture, summarized the children’s reactions as a mix of fear and disgust...
...mitigates the value of that information. Equally important, these practices strike at the very bedrock principles we claim for the basis of pride in our country. America cannot be a beacon of hope in the world if its actions are morally bankrupt, and we are filled with anger and disgust at the leaders in the U.S. government who seem willing to justify even the most egregious practices in the name of short-sighted national security...
...doubling psychologizes the drama. Just as for betrayed Medea all that exists are thoughts of revenge on Jason and disgust with herself, so too on stage there are only variants of the two. The audience is brought in uncomfortably close proximity to her crisis...
...This is a brutally cold movie," Kirk Honeycutt wrote in his Hollywood Reporter review, "where the characters invite our disgust and love feels like a brittle four-letter word.... This is not a movie anyone is going to warm up to." Well, I did. I was warm from the start - not aroused but excited that so much classy conniving was unfolding before my eyes. Here's a movie that's alive at every moment; for me, there was no emotional downtime...