Word: recoil
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...fact, was harsher in West European countries. In Paris, Le Monde compared the bombing to the Nazi destruction of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War. Britain's biggest newspaper, the Daily Mirror, commented: "The American resumption of the bombing of North Viet Nam has made the world recoil in revulsion...
...liked them a lot. The notion of violence, artistically treated, pleases me aesthetically. People died in the Wild Bunch with more simultaneous grace and realism than I'd ever seen. And I admired the cinematic ingenuity displayed in the assault sequence of Straw Dogs. I couldn't recoil in horror because I never forgot I was watching a movie...
Even Nixon's critics are rather surprised that you have not already grabbed his offered ceasefire, which would cost you little and gain your people a rare respite from battle. There are, of course, some visceral reasons why you may be reluctant. Possibly you recoil at the very notion of a settlement that would help to re-elect the man who personally hurled his B-52s against your country. Moreover, as everyone acknowledges by now, you gave a lot more than you got at Geneva 18 years ago last week, when you agreed under pressure from the big powers...
...deliberate cruelty which killed her young poet-homosexual husband), unable to cope with other deaths in the family--"the long parade to the graveyard"--or the loss of the plantation, Blanche was impelled by each new bewildering occurrence into escapes of blind desire, only to recoil at her own immorality. Each circuit from reality to illusion to reality has ground her down, left her more debauched and bereft of hope, until she arrives, quite seriously ill, at Elysian Fields, a pathetic figure devoted to romantic melodies, Chinese lanterns and ritualistic bathing, desperately clutching after some final saving grace...
...class of '45. (Unless that class, too, has dramatically retrenched over the course of the past year.) Seventy-six per cent would object to their son becoming a hippie (making that avocation slightly worse than that of SDS leader, to which 75 per cent of the fathers recoil. Eighty-three per cent believe President Pusey was right in calling in the police to bust University Hall in '69. Only 25 per cent think victory in Vietnam is undesirable. Sixty-eight per cent support ROTC in public and private schools, while a good nine per cent more would also...