Word: disgustful
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...case with Celine's book and Miller's Tropic of Cancer, the obscenity of Lawrence's report has no Rabelaisian gusto to make it bearable or give it meaning: it is monotonous, mechanical, uninspired and gross, a neurotic explosion of disgust rather than an uninhibited outbreak of masculine high spirits...
...Association is the second big trade organization to pull out of the C. of C. this year, the National Automobile Manufacturers having quit last spring because the Chamber was not anti-New Deal enough. A little later Edward Albert Filene, one of the Chamber's founders, resigned in disgust over the Chamber's amateurish handling of national economic problems (TIME, June...
...nearly every hamlet in Massachusetts making political friends. He denounced the New Deal not so much for what it did but for how it was done, demanded, "Give business a chance," "Give Massachusetts working men proper tariff protection," "Stop taking money out of Massachusetts." Two advantages he had: the disgust of decent citizens with the unsavory politics of the Curley regime; the fact that Thomas J. O'Brien, Union Party candidate for Senator as well as Vice President, split Curley's vote. Long-legged Lodge made the most of his chances. He marched into Curley's stronghold...
...compensation paid for her son's injury. At the day of reckoning Peter returns after a year at sea, is astonished when the ugly, middle-aged moneylender falls in love with him. Overwhelmed by her passion, Mrs. Ragner relaxes the screws on the Furys, until Peter reveals his disgust, neglects...
...figure was the central character of one of the strongest French novels since Celine's Journey to the End of the Night. The sixth book of a 37-year-old, self-educated Frenchman, it has much in common with Celine's masterpiece in its mood of intense disgust, its savage satirical portraits, its hatred of hypocrisy and its wild, grotesque humor. But unlike Journey to the End of the Night, it is compact and tightly-woven. the action taking place in 24 hours and the large cast of characters representing the main types of French provincial society...