Word: disgustful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Here, with persistent and painful probing, Big Daddy pries out of Brick a reason for his refuge in alcohol: disgust at the world's hypocrisy--or "mendacity," as Brick puts it. Part of this disgust is self-disgust at the outcome of Brick's "pure and true" friendship with his now-dead football pal Skipper, a relationship that was homosexual on one side and, at least latently, on the other. Forced to face truth, Brick turns the tables and reveals that what Big Daddy thinks is a spastic colon is actually a metastasizing malignancy...
...what Bogdanovich has done to the novel in his film in one sentence, it would have to be a line uttered in absolute disgust about Daisy's flirtations and how they violate expected sex roles: "A man may know every one, men are welcome to that privilege." The implication is that Daisy may certainly not know everyone, and Bogdanovich sets out to exploit the underlying sexual currents of this statement. One of the mysterious qualities of James's novella is the question of Winterbourne's motives. At the very beginning there are intimations of an illicit relationship between...
...presidency, Richard Nixon last week took the unusual step of inviting Columnist James J. Kilpatrick of the Washington Star-News Syndicate to drop by the Oval Office. A Virginia conservative with a waspish wit, Kilpatrick has supported Nixon for years, although he did admit to feeling "shame, embarrassment, disgust, chagrin" after reading the full text of the White House tapes. The interview turned into a rambling, often self-serving monologue that lasted 80 minutes. The President's main points...
Leroy Thompson had a great day in the nets, stopping a season high 23 shots. His histrionics in the crease--Thompson hurled his stick in the air once in disgust--cost him a penalty...
...social contrasts are brought out in a delicate yet piercing fashion. Wycherly's whip lashes out at women, fops, wits, and lawyers as he peers into man's social nature. He beats the sores of hypocrisy and deception so raw that even today they are hard to ignore. His disgust is let loose on an age of paradox and perversity--an age not unlike our own, where a mere consciousness of the profound problems of human life is hardly a satisfactory solution...