Word: disgustful
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...secret that is safe with the playwright. They live in eternity and are decked out in white paper beards, presumably indicating that they are figures in mythology. Monotonous, ugly and self-concerned, their verbal mating dance is devoid of tenderness or desire. The innate hostility, fear, and infinite self-disgust that animate this twosome are conveyed with meticulous zeal by Billie Dixon as Harlow and Richard Bright as Billy...
...willingness of Mallinckrodt protestors to take rash action may demonstrate the intensity of their convictions, but at the same time it hampers the efforts of rational critics of the war who are making progress without violating the law. Disgust is the inevitable public reaction to extra-legal protest which infringes on the rights of others. And it lends cerdibility to right-wing charges against the peace movement...
...whose real father ran away when he was an infant, identified with his master and set himself apart from the Sambos--the field Negroes. He felt disgust at having to use their outhouse. But, as one slave infomred him, "Yo' ass black jes' like mine, honey chile." In this way Styron shows how Nat's relationship with Samuel Turner was tormented and complicated; the condition became radically worse when Nat was denied his promised freedom by a Baptist preacher in whose hands Samuel Turner had entrusted...
...advertisement in today's Crimson, Larry M. Lawrence '68 said he was giving up his deferment out of "a simple feeling of disgust for the entire dirty business...
...gate knows really that she's equal to me, and I take care to tell her that." John Lennon's remark that "we're more popular than Jesus," which set off an anti-Beatle furor last year, was not a boast but an expression of disgust. Though he phrased it ineptly, he was posing the question: What kind of world is it that makes more fuss over a pop cult than over religion...