Word: disgustfully
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...real fascination and disgust turned on the idea of putting a seven-year-old at the controls (even with a qualified adult pilot watching her). The Catholic Church states that a child of seven has reached "the age of reason." The parents of most seven-year-olds will not say that "reason" is the first word that springs to mind. If Jessica had completed the flight in triumph, only a few would have muttered, "I'm glad it worked, but they took a hell of a chance." After the crash, the nation asked, virtually in chorus, "Were they crazy, putting...
...universal guilt--a sneaky bravado posing as self-accusation--has yet to show up in the wake of the slaughter in Scotland. What happened there was so surprising and so unrefractedly awful that it was almost impossible to react dishonestly to it. The mind simply filled with pain and disgust, and pure incomprehension...
...Yale School of Law, first as a student and then as a teacher, where the most vexing challenge to integrity seems to be grade inflation. When Carter does peek out briefly into the larger world of buying and selling, wheeling and dealing, he sniffs and retreats in disgust from that cesspool of hopeless mendacity. Advertising, he notes, is not always 100% truthful...
Proctor will be leaving his job in three weeks, a far shorter notice than most other top University officials have given. Even former provost Jerry R. Green, who resigned partially in disgust over Rudenstine's lack of focus and vision for the University, stayed on more than two months after he announced his departure...
...always fall into the same trap. We want news that is interesting. We want news that is late-breaking. We want news that is exciting and that spurs excitement, disgust, lust. It must. It must. Or else we tune out and go about our business. The press often fills that inner need for stimulation but not without a backlash in negative public opinion...