Word: disgustful
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...tennis court Jake becomes all business. He never mutters after a bad shot, never throws his racket on the grass in disgust. "Don't talk to yourself," Jake advises. "If you do, you are fighting a losing battle...
...mainly comical. It goes back to the Thirteenth Century, when Russia was menaced by a medieval German army, and concerns the over-whelming victory of the Russians under their hero, Nevsky. Though the tale is told as simply and as powerfully as an epic, there is much there to disgust and annoy American audiences. The extravagant hero-worship will only increase our lack of understanding of the Russian mind, while little can be found to excuse the vengeful care with which the camera follows the last efforts of the defeated soldiers drowning in an ice flow...
...cretin who wanders into the theater. Despite this fact, you will find yourself in sympathy with the bright young man who makes his way in the "game" with a front compounded of sincere ties and a fetching spiel. You will find it not at all difficult to share his disgust on realizing that his life, and the programs the country listens to, are shaped by the whims of a tyrant-sponsor. This churl is delineated expertly, if a touch too silkily, by Sidney Greenstreet. And Adolph Menjou's sodden-drunk recital of the way he got ahead by giving...
...probably the worst possible course of action. Had he been permitted to deliver his speech, Smith could have been expected to put his foot in his mouth almost every time he opened it. He is anti-Semitic, anti-Negro, anti-Catholic, anti-so-many-things that his poisonous mouthings disgust and antagonize his audience. His philosophy has a strictly limited appeal. Although the Meeting House was not filled and there was room for any of his disciples who so desired to come in and gaze at his august presence, his audience included only about 35 people, mostly old ladies...
That attitude got him through the tough grind which made good golfers spray tee shots into the wire-haired rough, even quit in disgust...