Word: squeamish
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...through necromancy or something even more unfathomable, has been given nine lives. Such Draculatic positions, however, are rare. Cats themselves often seem instinctively to regard fear or hatred in people as a signal to antagonize visitors. Many owners report that their pets will purposely force their unwanted attentions on squeamish guests...
...murderer, a dope smuggler, a pimp, and only several months older than when we first meet him. We witness with him the brutality, corruption, drug abuse, homosexuality, squalor and general degradation that is his class's lot. Stay away from this film if you are the least bit squeamish; there is an unending stream of unsettling images that give the movie the appearance of a bad acid trip. Why go see a film like this when you can go see "All The Marbles" which is about lady wrestlers? Why go to college...
Debrett is too squeamish to say much about sex, and the little counsel that is offered tends to be erratic. Men should rise for a woman after work, but not at an office meeting. A hostess can, in good conscience, allow an unmarried couple to share a bedroom (a stunning advance from the Victorian days when etiquette guides recommended that even books by unmarried male and female writers be kept on separate shelves). At large parties, however, coats should be sexually segregated-women's in the bedroom, men's in the hall...
...mention that some Canadians "felt a little squeamish" at the sight of Cancer Victim Terry Fox's [Sept. 15] occasionally bloody stump and his face contorted in pain as he attempted his long-distance run across the country. I did not feel squeamish. My face was wet with tears because he ran for my friend, for my uncle, for my father-in-law. His run was against a universal enemy, cancer, that touches...
...rest of the movie, in some way, and that one way of justifying violence is to make a great movie; by killing some people the audience cares about, in an early scene like this, the director can in effect throw down the gauntlet to himself. Cassavetes is not a squeamish director--he has no qualms about killing off bad guys, and more than once. But he chooses to bail out in this scene, and from that point on it is clear what kind of movie this is going...