Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the fault lies with the American audience itself, which is likely to find the Andalusian character of the play foreign and strange. As a result, certain lines in this tragedy that would evoke sympathy or pathos in a Spanish audience evoke bewilderment, disgust, or even laughter in an American audience...
...Administration of money, both public and private, generated on behalf of the rebels, including $27 million in humanitarian aid sent in 1985. The measure, which would withhold the $40 million remaining of the $100 million appropriated last year, was an artful ploy linking opposition to the contras with congressional disgust over the Tower commission's revelations about the Administration's inept and probably illegal efforts on behalf of the contras. "Before we send another dime to the contras," said the bill's chief sponsor, Democrat David Bonior of Michigan, "we must know where the previous funds have gone...
Goodwin registers maternal disapproval rather than disgust about the incident. She takes a similar tone when dealing with J.F.K. the philanderer. His compulsive womanizing, says Goodwin, was a symptom of his dread of intimacy and his fear of early death. He suffered from Addison's disease. But previous accounts of Kennedy hanky-panky portray an insensitive Regency buck claiming sexual entitlements...
...hapless Bruin slammed his fist into the water with disgust, the Harvard bench erupted in applause and Brown was sunk...
...woman's disgust was directed at Falwell's dismissal of a questioner at an earlier Law School appearance. Two years ago, a questioner identified herself as a "Jewish, lesbian feminist," and then attacked Falwell's opposition to abortion when he last spoke...