Word: disgustful
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...some ways the distant voices echoed the disgust that many Americans felt about the Thomas matter. But in a critical respect, a number of European commentators betrayed their own obtuseness. They depicted the embattled judge as a villain/victim in the tradition of John Profumo, the British Minister of War whose fling with a call girl, and his lies about it to Parliament, cost him his job in 1963. Fleet Street was none too tolerant of human frailty then, nor was it earlier this month when Sir Allan Green, the chief prosecutor for England and Wales, was caught soliciting a prostitute...
Besides bigotry, Wasinger exhibits a puritanical sexual prudishness. His disgust for sex is obvious. But what is so "base" about sex? Some people (lesbian, gay, straight and bisexual) associate sex with pleasure, happiness and, yes, love. Perhaps these sorts of feelings are beyond the capacities of Wasinger...
...Hill, permitting herself a rare display of emotion, wrinkled her nose in disgust. "The name that was referred to was Long Dong Silver." Hatch, who emerged as one of the panel's most aggressive interrogators, later dug up a 1988 decision by a federal appeals court in Tulsa, citing an obscene photograph of a character by that name. Hatch suggested it was this court case that had brought the name to Hill's attention -- not Clarence Thomas...
...something happened last week that may, for better or worse, permanently destroy all that comity. Senator Hatch opened the hearings in disgust, saying that if the Democrats had only asked for a closed executive session, the committee would have been spared its Friday circus. Senator Alan Simpson, who usually manages to hide his meanness behind an Andy Rooney facade, warned Hill that she would be "injured, and destroyed and belittled and hounded and harassed -- real harassment, different from the sexual kind, just plain old Washington-variety harassment." What debates over the budget, arms control, abortion or the gulf...
...alcohol. As she wrote in an early poem, "the odor of death hung in the air/ like rotting potatoes." She checked in and out of sanitariums. Doctors tried to minister to her hysteria, depression, anorexia, insomnia, wildly alternating moods, lacerating rages, trances, fugue states, terrible confusions, bouts of self-disgust...