Word: disgustful
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Although the people down at WHRB may not be able to come up with anything quite as apropos of reading period as their recent Alienation Orgy (featuring "songs of isolation, disgust and boredom"), they have once again planned a strong series of orgies to fill out the rest of reading period...
...middle class" theory. He is struck by the fact that so many terrorist acts have taken place in West Germany, Italy and Japan, the three defeated Axis powers of World War II. Among the disaffected youth of these countries, he suggests, "there is a sense of shame and disgust with the older generation who rose to prosperity on the bones of a lot of people and won't admit...
...uncannily predictive drawing. "The Mickey Mouse face," Steinberg remarks, "is sexless, neither black nor white, without character or age: for me it represents the junk-food people, the spoilt young ones who have all their experiences, inferior as they are, handed to them on a plate." An encyclopedic disgust pervades these drawings. But it is not a common emotion in Steinberg's work. In general, he is a paragon of detachment: he is, as the title of one of his books announces, the Inspector, imperturbable, restless and nosy...
...Joyce wisely yelled to let it roll. The pill scooted straight along the line for perhaps a second--Pearce and Brown hovering over it quizzically, like consulting surgeons, Felton already safe at first--before mysteriously hooking back into fair territory. Pearce snapped the ball up in his palm with disgust...
...official in the Federal Energy Administration who tried to get rid of an incompetent employee: "It was a steady string of affidavits and appeals and hearings. You'd have thought I was the one they were trying to fire." After six months, the official gave up in disgust, and the subordinate remained on the job. "The fellow finally died," says the manager. "I guess you'd say that was the only decision...