Word: disgust
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...course, in hyper-liberal circles diamonds have been viewed with suspicion for years, a sentiment fed in equal parts by disgust for the infamous DeBeers cartel and a growing sense that perhaps wearing a measure of one's fianc?'s net worth on one's hand might not be the most practical use of two months' salary...
...consequences that result from intense dislike are not always so fortuitous. But if it is enough to unite thousands within a diverse community, enough to energize a political race and enough to discourage us from throwing our hands up--and throwing the towel in--because of disinterest and disgust, then it's a start...
What's the lesson, if any, of something like John Kennedy Jr.'s death? I feel, still, an anger and disgust that just about overwhelm the sense of sadness: What a damn dumb inexcusable thing! And the two women died with him. The Kennedys have been testing the limits of their dispensation for three generations now. In the last generation (Joe Jr. and John and Bobby), death had historical context and therefore the dark prestige of tragedy. But when planes go down in incompetent or reckless moments, or when a guy skis into a tree while playing high-speed downhill...
Except there will be no next year. Last week Reel.com's headquarters in Emeryville, Calif., was like a ghost town. Every last one of the site's 230 employees had got a pink slip the previous week. Some, in a rush or in disgust, hadn't even cleaned out their cubicles. Thorsen and 14 others remained as independent contractors, keeping the site running while its owner, Hollywood Entertainment, based in Portland, Ore., worked out the details of how to give it a decent burial...
...sensationalist press was in lurid bloom. The Know-Nothing party flourished on nativist paranoias and disgust with immigrants. In a prose tract called "The Eighteenth Presidency!", Whitman referred to politicians as "pimps," "excrement," and "serpentine men." Slavery had the sanction...