Word: disgustful
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...nausea. No sharp pain. A mild disgust, and a quick defensive rallying of your forces. Your wits are keyed to concert pitch, nothing can escape you, you are intensely self, conscious. You have utter and absolute control over all your nerves. You go right on lying there in his arms letting what must have gone rigid inside you with his words go rigid away inside your skin, so his arms can't sense the difference, can't feel the animal flinch that maybe after all you couldn't avoid...
...Uganda today is a land of terror and discontent. During Big Daddy's four-year reign, at least 50,000 Ugandans-and perhaps four or five times that number-have been murdered. Amin's own brother-in-law, Wanume Kibedi, quit as Foreign Minister last year in disgust. Kibedi's glamorous replacement, Princess Elizabeth Bagaya, a former high-fashion model, was sacked two months ago on the trumped-up charge that she had made love to a white man in a rest room at Paris' Orly Airport. Last week Amin ordered Uganda's newspapers...
...space round him in which each ringer, each joint, every muscle locates its place. "Keep the arms closer to the body for balance and to project to the audience," Williams reminds him as he misses a turn. He fails in a second try and bangs his head in disgust. "I'm sorry, I will improve," Nureyev apologizes. Pale with concentration, he repeats the step with needle-sharp precision. Williams nods and his pupil jigs back and forth in fifth position like a gleeful schoolboy...
...always taken a great deal of pleasure in being a spectator at Harvard sports events, I feel that I must express my disgust at the continuing behavior of a group of people who frequent the stands in the southern end of Watson Rink. Most regrettably, this group includes a number of the Band members. I am referring to those people who spend the better part of each hockey game jeering, insulting, and baiting visiting players, particularly goaltenders...
...women who have been raped later encounter in the law process. The offhand comment the rapist makes to one women hitchhiker--"It's all part of the fun of hitchhiking"-- finds its counterpart in the California juror who last week dismissed entirely Inez Garcia's outrage and fear and disgust at her alleged rapist: "He was just trying to show her a good time, that...