Word: disgustful
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...torch that resembles a melted ice cream cone and the other clutching an enormous glossy breast, she is perched on a bar stool with an American flag between her legs. In a triumphal pose she stares down as a new god of America's reproductive process. This is disgust tinged with humor similar to Pop art of the early...
...cannot understand it. After the Olympic tragedy, some had the nerve to say, "This is the end of all the Olympics." No! The tragedy produced in fact one of the greatest demonstrations of human unity for a long time. The entire human race united in fear, horror and disgust over the criminal acts of the Black September group. A tragic event, but we were all together...
...motions of dismissing him. As the man turned to leave, the officer said casually, "By the way, that Vaughan Williams piece you played last week on television-was that his seventh symphony or his eighth?" The suspect stared at the detective for one slack-jawed moment. Then in disgust he threw up his hands and said, "Oh, hell...
...Beauvoir the only solution to this ignominious situation is to go on pursuing the ends that give out life meaning, and to fight society's greatest crime of stealing this meaning away. But her condemnation is born of her disgust with the whole capitalist "system" that destroys old and young alike. In his masterful film, "Tokyo Story" (made in 1953 but-only eventually released) Yasujiro Ozu draws no such socialist conclusions, although to him the continual "meaning of life" is even more sacred than to de Beauvoir. He draws no conclusions at all. Not compromising the simplicity of presenting things...
There may not be any decisive sentiment to fundamentally alter the U.S. economic and political system. The disgust with Viet Nam may not extend to the broader isolationist mood that McGovern's defense policies and even his acceptance theme, "Come home, America," suggest. Perhaps all of the conventional political blocs still wield decisive electoral power-and are moving away from the Democratic Party. Or, even if McGovern is riding a movement as pervasive as his ardent advisers envision, the national electorate could find him inadequate to lead...