Word: disgustful
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...ENOUGH with the famous people!" my sister cries in disgust. "What is the study environment like? Is there a residential college system? How are the counseling services?" She rattles off the questions in a frustrated tone...
Novelist Julian Barnes has described Potter as a "Christian socialist with a running edge of apocalyptic disgust." And Potter's works have provoked disgust in the more easily shockable segments of the British public. The tabloid press denounced the Detective series as pornography, and as Potter recalls, "one Member of Parliament got up on his hind legs and said that he'd counted the number of swear words and bare bums. But that's partly because television is taken more seriously in England, which means more seriously by the fools as well." One scene -- a flashback of a desperate encounter...
...Wrote Tanton: "Perhaps this is the first instance in which those with their pants up are going to get caught by those with their pants down." Board member Linda Chavez, former staff director of the Civil Rights Commission and later candidate for the U.S. Senate from Maryland, quit in disgust, as did Walter Cronkite, and Tanton was forced to leave the organization...
...resemblance by having chorus members thrust their arms out in rhythmic salutes. Shannon also makes good use of the Mainstage's ample space, as she balances different groups off one another. In "Peron's Latest Flame," for example, the aristocrats step lightly and delicately, tilting their cigarette holders in disgust, while the military men stomp across the stage swinging their arms...
...write this letter in part out of disgust, since I thought all real sports fans knew about THE GAME, and at the same time out of pity, since Mark has been missing out on some amazing football...