Word: disgustful
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Europeans have long looked down their well-bred noses in disgust at America and its minority problem. Now they can look inward to search for the solution. Loretta T. Scheffer Fort Walton Beach...
...frontier of unknown territory. He also wanted to deepen his understanding of the muscular frame, whose shapes determine the figure and are the key to proportion and beauty. Nowhere in his work do the scientific and aesthetic impulses twine more closely. But they grew under the shadow of disgust, and to appreciate these drawings one must grasp the difficulty of making them. The anatomist had no preservatives except alcohol and, of course, no refrigeration. For some of his deeper and more complex dissections, Leonardo would have had to spend a week or more with his nose in an open cadaver...
Neither touching nor humorous in their dimness, they can engender only one emotion: disgust. Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden and Wallace Shawn are among those trying to find some overtone or undertone they can resonate to, but the script is so dull and the direction so lacking in dynamics that they are reduced to aimless noodling. The depression they feel in their bereft state will quickly communicate itself to any viewer...
...countries expressed opposition to Israeli policies "long before oil politics became a factor." Yet, his only example is two quotes from one man, Amilcar Cabral, the founder of the revolutionary movement in Guinnea-Bisseau. He concludes about African opposition to Israel that, "a good deal of it is authentic disgust at Israeli policies toward Palestinians...and at the South African connection." I don't see how one man can be said to speak for the people of an entire continent...
...first complaints about Harbor Lawn came three years ago, when Audrey Cooper, 72, received a burial urn containing what she thought was the ashes of her husband William. A family friend named Jerry Read, who had once worked for Harbor Lawn but quit in disgust, told the widow that the remains were not her husband's. Says Read: "Bodies were doubled up on shelves in the refrigerator. When they got full, they'd stack the bodies on the garage floor and leave them there for days." Read and other former employees further charge that bins full of excess...