Word: disgustful
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Despite his carefully honed image of being always at the top of his game, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is taking a lot of solid shots on the chin these days. Disappointing policy results, hotly challenged reform proposals, and peaking public disgust with his overexposed private life have fueled a dizzying plunge in Sarkozy's approval ratings. That darkening image could have consequences. Just five weeks before the first round of nationwide municipal elections, rightist candidates fear a possible leftist rout in cities across France as voters signal their displeasure with Sarkozy's national leadership...
...became apparent that what was supposed to be the logical finish to an historic season by the now-18-1 Patriots had morphed into an exhilarating back-and-forth battle, we focused on the TV set and friendly banter was replaced by monosyllabic exclamations of joy and disgust. During the epic fourth quarter that saw three lead changes and a heroic performance by Manning, the emotional rollercoaster the spectators in the room were riding was twisting and looping at full speed. After the Giants took the lead for the first time since their opening drive, a new hope sprung...
...Saddam's own office when an American soldier grabbed one of the flags hanging next to the dictator's desk and, pointing on the lettering, asked his Kurdish translator, "What does this say?" The translator replied, with obvious disgust, "It says 'Saddam Hussein...
...have suggested that disbelief and moral outrage may be processed in the area of the brain that makes us go "Blechh." Sam Bowles, professor of human behavior at the Santa Fe Institute, describes research in which an unfair business deal produced a response in the same region. How did disgust get involved in the belief-and-disbelief business? Some think it started as a fairly straightforward adaptation to enable a suspicious taste, smell or appearance--like that of vermin--to trigger the impulse to eliminate the source. We may have then generalized that reaction to ideas. "When someone says something...
...good" caused an area called the anterior insula to light up. True statements like "2 + 2 = 4" activated the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. The ventromedial is thought to play a role in judgment, memory, fear and, according to one study, soft-drink preferences. The anterior insula helps process fear, disgust and reactions to bad smells...