Word: disgusted
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...cleanest way to return Iraq to some kind of normality. But Executive Order 12333, issued by Ronald Reagan, says that "no person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination." The prohibition grew out of widespread disgust over disclosures of U.S. plots to kill Castro and a scheme to depose Chile's President Salvador Allende that helped lead to his death...
...score. As for the Gardner heist: "You can believe I didn't plan the thing, or The Rape of Europa would have been the first to go." The Titian work was the most valuable piece in the museum but was passed over for lesser goods, Connor says with disgust...
...about romance, the scenes are touching and amusing too. As such scenes accumulate, a viewer senses that, as with thirtysomething and My So-Called Life, two shows that could also be precious and manipulative and that had similar attitudes and characters, there may be stages to go through: disgust, annoyance, grudging tolerance, enjoyment accompanied by self-loathing, actual enjoyment. Right now, the pain-pleasure ratio of watching Ally McBeal is tilted in the wrong direction, but it's shifting...
Rather than trying to generate sympathy for his characters, he introduces an ugly mode of black humor that mocks the dead and dying to such a degree that the audience feels too much disgust to get riled up about HMO policies. The black humor itself isn't a bad idea; it is often a key and telling element of good satire. But Lumet has shot himself in the foot by making the humor too universal--if you show disdain for doctors, patients, bereaved family members, athiests, the strongly religious, HMOs and insurance companies, there isn't really anyone left...
...sheep. They buck the system," she argues. Earnings from the Look Who's Talking movies she made with Travolta, another famous church member, helped her open a Scientology mission in her Kansas hometown where nonmembers can learn to read. "People don't see the good," she says in disgust...