Word: disgustfully
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...this world suits the actors and their audience less because of the Ideals it embodies than because of what it lets them see of themselves. Aegisthus, commissioned to kill his own father, finds a man "Shaken by disgust / At the whoring of his belly after a life / His mind was through with." And Philo, the one Regent-Councillor who abstained from voting for death, asks what has become of the time "When by some strong geometry of love / The law and right were one, the thing and its use, / The man and the life he'd made...
Goulart managed to wangle an invitation for Tito to visit the booming inland city of Belo Horizonte. But that, too, was canceled in disgust by the governor of Minas Gerais state when he heard that Yugoslav security men insisted on the arrest of every Serbian and Croatian refugee in town. In desperation, Goulart wound up driving Tito 130 sweltering miles to the raw and sprawling town of Goiania, a must on nobody's list-only to be greeted by a row of grim, silent priests, each holding a crucifix wrapped in black crape...
...America, Critic John Baur once wrote in an excellent Whitney Museum monograph, "the bitterness and disgust which had inspired the great German drawings evaporated like night mist." Grosz painted the Manhattan skyline and the city's lights and signs. Instead of decay, he drew sensuous female nudes-the human body exploding with youth and health. Instead of ugliness, he drew and painted lyrical pictures of Cape Cod. Edmund Wilson recalls how fascinated Grosz was by the idealized life pictured in American ads showing handsome young people with every material blessing. The scourge of Berlin, it seemed, had lost...
...whom Thomas was faithful in plot structure alone, replacing Stevenson's old salty seadog manner with a moody romanticism, but preserving Stevenson's gun-shooting, skeleton-rattling scary tale of fists, love and danger. His most interesting character is Case, the incarnate devil-"ironically attitudinizing, full of disgust and venom there in the fly-loud, flyblown, bottle-strewn bedded room." The part is intended at present for James Mason, but Burton would do well to trade traders with...
...bait, even tapping it tentatively with its bill, then turn tail and nonchalantly swim away, with curses raining down over its wake. Or it will grab the bait sideways in its jaws, neatly avoiding the hook, then spit it back into the water with what seems a shrug of disgust. Skilled fishermen sometimes try to trick a white marlin onto the hook by "racing" the bait (skipping it swiftly along the surface), then suddenly dropping it backward as the openmouthed fish approaches. Even that tactic often fails. "Ain't nothing in the ocean so hard to outguess...