Word: disgustful
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...only Faculty member observed distributing his or her own candy was Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor. When asked if he had received many Halloween callers, Handlin threw up his arms in disgust and closed the door...
...HARD TO believe that an established rock personality would let himself be harrowed by a wave of bad reviews. After the critics unanimously panned Jethro Tull's Passion Play, the band's leader Ian Anderson threw up his hands in disgust and disbanded one of rock's most illustrious combos. The percentage of the record-buying public influenced by reviews, though, is so insignificant that Anderson's self-mortification was astounding...
Auden finds himself at home here. He feels himself in a world where "trees are proud of their posture,/stones are delighted to lie/just where they are." His disgust for man himself, and he is willing to settle for mediocrity so long as it is not troublesome. Beasts can be admired in preference...
...LACK of moral tension is evident at the end of the film, when Duddy finally is able to buy his long-coveted land and proudly takes his grandfather for a look. We are almost indifferent when the zeyda turns away in disgust, disappointed that Duddy had to forge a check to meet the final payment. Yes, we agree with the grandfather, Duddy committed a deplorable act. Yet at the same time, we excuse Duddy for the deed because in our minds he is no more than an unprincipled child. Duddy Kravitz never developed a set of principles as he lurched...
...time only by a logic of association. It also possesses an uncharacteristic and rather clammy eroticism. In this claustrophobic reverie, Gimpei Momoi, a 34-year-old schoolteacher, a dim cousin of Nabokov's Humbert Humbert, disconsolately follows women, or schoolgirls, through the streets. Filled with a "masochistic self-disgust" that has its origins in his own deformed feet, Gim pei (which might almost be some accidental translingual pun - "Momoi the Gimp") is another of literature's repellent voyeurs - a wincing, hypersensitive defective on the sad trail of in effable beauty...