Word: disgustful
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...group was more faithful to that message than Peter, Paul and Mary. Their own songs and the songs they sang by other people expressed a white, upper-middle class intellectual disgust over a nation embattled overseas and at war with its own people...
...memories, and taking refuge in an old carriage, their mode of contact threatens to become physical. But Giorgio is too slow in making this transition from childhood innocence. Paralyzed by the enticing new light in Micol's eyes, he can only stare back embarrassedly, until she runs away in disgust. And Micol never offers anything twice...
Gerald Hawes, an HEW employee who was serving as a grand juror in California's Marin County, recently resigned in disgust at such jury docility. Hawes was on the panel investigating George Jackson's killing in San Quentin, and for background he had read the transcript of the Angela Davis grand jury hearing. Not a single question was asked by a juror in that case, Hawes reports, and in the Jackson case, he says, the prosecutor specifically urged the jurors to ask no questions. Several grand jurors in the Ted Kennedy Chappaquiddick case also reported feeling frustrated; they...
...point in Redux, Rabbit looks over the books that Skeeter, the black radical carries--Marx, Fanon --and they disgust him, remind him of plumbing. Is that more or less your feeling also...
...right--the novelist is of interest only for what he does through empathy and image-producing, image-arranging; the more consciously a theorist he is the more apt he is to become impotent or cranky or both. Like Harry. I try to remain kind of open. Revolt, rebellion, violence, disgust are themselves there for a reason, they too are organically evolved out of a distinct reality, and must be considered respectfully...I try to love both the redneck and the anarchist bomb-thrower. I think they're both anarchists...