Word: disgustful
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When Daria in total disgust imagines the house repeatedly exploding, the scene is justified and perhaps inevitable. Having broken down the connections between people and objects sharing a common environment, Antonioni literally breaks down the organic structure of the objects themselves, and of the frames that contain them. The house, shown in increasingly close angle, erupts furiously. Then, in a coda, rooms and objects within the house are destroyed in slow motion-refrigerators, bookshelves, clothesracks. The abstraction becomes Expressionistic, simplemindedly recalling Jackson Pollock. Zabriskie Point offers a final reduction in images revealing the vulnerability of props and symbols that obscure...
Twice, the Elis were unsuccessful even in putting a shot on the Harvard eage during a power play, and once, while Old Blues bellowed in disgust. Cavanagh raced through the entire Yale squad with the Crimson a man down, circled the Elinet, and returned the same way he came-without a stick laid upon...
...learning to live without visions-and yet without them without dreams of finding a way out, of bringing it all together, what is there left to write about that gives us a chance of going on from here? Confess your fears, deny your hopes, show love, pain, disgust, but something more has got to be there if the writing is to generate any more of a reaction than an indifferent "So what...
MIDWAY through lunch at a fashionable Washington restaurant not long ago, a young man named Ralph Nader stopped suddenly and gazed down in disgust at his chef's salad. There, nestled among the lettuce leaves, lay a dead fly. Nader spun in his chair and jabbed both arms into the air to summon a waiter. Pointing accusingly at the intruder on his plate, he ordered: "Take it away!" The waiter apologized and rushed to produce a fresh salad, but Nader's anger only rose. While his luncheon companions watched the turmoil that had erupted around him, Nader launched into...
...graceful pair of Tintoretto hands. Yet it is Orsini's genetic baggage, "the rucksack of my misfortune," that shapes his soul. In his childhood, the hump fostered his father's disdain and his brother's malice. When he was a youth, it caused impotence and self-disgust as Orsini had to view it multiplied in a harlot's mirrored chamber...