| 单词 | repulsiveness |
| 例句 | She tries relentlessly to pull you away and out, not unlike her own self-destructive characters, who seem a bit addicted to their own repulsiveness. The strange, savage universe of Ottessa Moshfegh's 'Eileen' 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Gainsbourg turns, before our eyes, from a skinny young nightclub performer in a trim tuxedo into a shaggy and grizzled talk-show fixture, all the while walking the narrow boundary between repulsiveness and charm. | 'Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life': ?Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life,? by Joann Sfar - Review 2011-08-30T21:39:29Z He is closely followed in repulsiveness by Mr. Paul’s J. J., a depressed young musician who falsely claims to be dying of inoperable brain cancer. ‘A Long Way Down,’ a Suicide Pact Comedy 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Reginald Hill's creation is the head of CID in the mythical Mid Yorkshire, an area that encompasses both the charm and repulsiveness of all three real Ridings. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z In one post, she complimented an author’s skill at conveying the “repulsiveness” of a character’s “predator,” according to the court papers. Harvey Weinstein appeals sexual assault conviction with focus on juror who penned novel 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z But she also uses that scenario to put her only slant on the concept of cringe comedy, moving that brand of humor deeper into the territory of repulsiveness. “Smart Watch”: From “Sally4Ever” to “This Is Us,” there... 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z It proves Chet’s repulsiveness by making him an alumnus of a kind of men’s rights boot camp; Rachel barks: “We don’t solve problems, O.K.? We create them, and then we point cameras at them.” ‘UnREAL’ Season 2 Premiere: We Don’t Solve Problems 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z At Jimmy’s apartment, he and Gretchen engage in an enthusiastic bout of misplaced-grudge sex, each taking pains to remind the other of his or her repulsiveness. ‘Married’ and ‘You’re the Worst’: Pushing boundaries on the dark side of sex and relationships It's really been something to watch staunchly decorous institutions like the New York Times flail to grasp the profound repulsiveness emanating from the current administration. Your rage is justified, and it's not "vituperative" 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The durian’s flavor elicits passionate, and polarizing, responses, with few indifferent about the fruit’s appeal or repulsiveness. Eating Thai Fruit Demands Serious Effort but Delivers Sublime Reward 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z For a very long time now, dating at least back to the original Spygate, the New England Patriots have set the standard for comprehensive repulsiveness. The Houston Astros are giving the Patriots a real challenge for Most Loathsome Franchise - Golf Digest 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z However, I was also struck by how much interviewees, generally, mentioned Weinstein’s appearance – his ugliness, his weight, his repulsiveness. What Harvey Weinstein looks like doesn’t matter – it is the evil lurking within | Barbara Ellen 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Snakes for hair, reptile skin, a repulsiveness that renders her not only undesirable but dangerous. Opinion | Make Me a Cold and Pitiless Goddess 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z The repulsiveness of the sight gag is softened by its absurdity — just one reminder of many that this is a movie calibrated to cross the line, though always in service of a laugh. Review | ‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ delivers a second dose of R-rated action and comedy 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z “Democrats will use every avenue to challenge the repulsiveness of President Trump’s words and actions.” 'Unraveling our national fabric': Romney condemns Trump after Charlottesville 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z In a review for The Times, Katie Walsh called the film “a bizarre and often strangely funny and affecting exercise in escalating repulsiveness and bad taste … forthright in its pushing of gross-out boundaries.” Indie Focus: Unraveling complications in '13th,' 'The Birth of a Nation' and 'The Greasy Strangler' 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z The horror-comedy “The Greasy Strangler” is a bizarre and often strangely funny and affecting exercise in escalating repulsiveness and bad taste. 'The Greasy Strangler' takes gross-out humor to another level 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The available evidence suggests that despite some particular repulsiveness, all this talk, in the end, was just that. “Every revolution needs a villain”: Misplaced leftist backlash gives Debbie Wasserman Schultz entirely too much credit 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The moral repulsiveness is a part of modern hunting. Modern hunting images are morally repugnant. Better to look away | Jonathan Jones 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z What none seem to recognize is either the impracticality of such an objective or its repulsiveness to Hamas. There Is No Hope For "Peace" In Gaza 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z The terror of contemporary life, with its repulsiveness, its brutality and its fascination, drove men in search of the moral guide. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The American papers over here are accablants, and the vulgarity and repulsiveness of the Tribune, whenever I see it, strikes me so violently that I feel tempted to stop my letter. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Even the successor of Gianni would have made a valuable appearance in a quadro caratteristico, for certainly no subject could have served better to display panic in all its disgusting repulsiveness. Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z In envy perhaps of the sturdy and glowing health of the starer, the lanky youth scowled back, and lowering his jaw pulled a grimace with an ease and repulsiveness that argued some practice. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z You have no idea of the moral repulsiveness of this Curort life. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z He was immoderately ugly, but with an expression so simply amiable as quite to escape repulsiveness. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z O'Hara thought there was a peculiar repulsiveness in the odour. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z A look of abhorrence accentuated the repulsiveness of his face. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z Ascribe the origin to any cause you will, it does not alter the revolting facts, nor lessen the repulsiveness of the absurdity, nor the enormity of the crime. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z I knew no other living animal or creeping thing, so closely resembling these frogs in repulsiveness, as a Romish priest or bishop who hears confessions. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z Among the creatures with spoiled lives with whom I had to live, I did not yet note those who were capable of thinking and feeling, in spite of their external repulsiveness. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z On the contrary, there is a chilling reserve, amounting almost to repulsiveness. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z In this case, the effect was enhanced by the extreme repulsiveness of the face, and, I may add, its proximity, for, as I think, it almost touched mine. In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3 2011-08-25T02:00:31.597Z Slaughtering.—Great improvements have been made in the slaughtering of animals, by which a great amount of its repulsiveness and the unhealthfulness of its surroundings have been removed. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z But none the less did they add to the repulsiveness and terror of our position. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z Now, Tennyson seems to have done everything in his power to minimise the repulsiveness of the character. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Hearne set this unhappy example of printing ancient writers with all their obsolete repulsiveness in orthography and type. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z For all poverty, loneliness, helplessness, repulsiveness, and every form of weakness and misfortune, especially for those worst misfortunes that come from one’s own imprudence or misdoing, he shall have sympathy and help. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z Hardness and repulsiveness of manner originate in want of respect for the feelings of others. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z The very repulsiveness of old Titus, his underhand methods, his insincerities, only served to increase her sympathy for the pair. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z It was the maid, who had entered and was glaring at me with a face to which the growing darkness gave an added repulsiveness. That Affair at Elizabeth 2011-02-14T03:00:36.587Z The New York Times once wrote that it had "an august reputation for repulsiveness". 2010-01-26T13:49:00Z I do not myself think that materialism has attained quite that degree of repulsiveness, but it is too near it. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z Others soon realize the repulsiveness of the black shadows that enthrall them and bite the dust in anguish in their struggle to be free. Politics of Alabama Since his visit to his home the sheer thought of the sordid old house and its inmates had jarred on him to the point of repulsiveness. The Cottage of Delight A Novel The beautiful young lady had no idea of the repulsiveness of a woman who strives to make a man of herself, but she was sure that the cause and origin of woman's degradation is religion. The Progressionists, and Angela. This book, like the former, has a certain repulsiveness of subject in parts; but the vigour of the drawing and the extraordinary skill in description are as remarkable as ever. A Short History of French Literature Svengali is drawn with inimitable skill, and with so much realism that the reader feels that he must have been known and hated by du Maurier in all his repulsiveness. Trilbyana The Rise and Progress of a Popular Novel This singular being attracted me in a peculiar manner, both by her excellencies and her repulsiveness. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors But this did not finish the man, for in 1681 he wrote his Letter to Colonel Phaire, the language of which is perhaps unsurpassed for repulsiveness in the whole range of religious literature. Books Condemned to be Burnt Raw, shapeless stones, and bald, gray rocks, only half unearthed, cumbered the road; while bunches of dwarfed birches, browsed by straying cattle, added to the repulsiveness of the scene. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 His repulsiveness is, perhaps, in a measure due to his want of skill in the art of composition, for he did not learn to write till he was fifty years old. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Ugliness, nay, repulsiveness, vanish, subdued into beauty, even as noxious gases may be subdued into health-giving substances by some cunning chemist. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II For how could Paul present a more attractive description than when he describes it as stripped of its power and repulsiveness and makes it the medium through which we attain life and joy? Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent Urania's reptile, however, was the conventional mythical scorpion of the Zodiac, and only vaguely represented the evil-looking, venomous beast with which I subsequently became, according to her prophecy, acquainted, in all its natural living repulsiveness. Records of Later Life Again they saw in all its repulsiveness the thing that seemed a creature of some horrible dream. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 I suspect the very appliances of the modern stage bring the repulsiveness of the incident more prominently forward. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 The importance attached to dress is also very suggestive; for here, again, the element of sacrifice expresses itself in the cultivation of a studied repulsiveness to the normal attractiveness of costume. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development "And all," continued Monsieur Brisson, with rancour, "because of his jealousies of the cat's place in Madame Jolicœur's affections—the affections which he so hopelessly hoped, forgetful of his own repulsiveness, to win for himself!" Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales Stout to repulsiveness, shabby of attire, fiery of face, unsteady of pose, with one bright beautiful eye burning with the supernatural fire of absinthe, the other sealed in internal darkness. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life He tried to close his mind to the repulsiveness of what he was doing. The Mind Master Hence the difficulty of bringing the mind to bear upon it; hence its repulsiveness; the tendency for attention to wander; for other acts and images to crowd in and expel the lesson. The Child and the Curriculum The girl's hatred and her sense of repulsiveness in her mistress and in her uncle seemed to throw the other two together. The Rainbow In the clothes and person the Changars are decidedly unclean, and indeed, in most respects the repulsiveness of the tribes can hardly be exceeded. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement But the man’s features, when viewed as a whole, could not fail to inspire a certain feeling of repulsiveness mingled with fear. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora For my part, I have never given up the doctrine that any subject may be deprived of its repulsiveness by the treatment of it. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century He required a maximum of wealth with a minimum of personal repulsiveness. A Book About Lawyers Their deep, guttural, ejaculatory words were plainly audible to the hunters, and their gleaming, bedaubed visages were seen in all their hideous repulsiveness. The Riflemen of the Miami The men think an ugly old woman monopolizes all the opportunities humanity offers for repulsiveness. The Convert The sincerity of an author sometimes borrows an advantageous illustration from the repulsiveness of his theme. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 When powdered and painted in this way, the repulsiveness of the Kalush women, by nature excessively ugly, may be imagined; but they have a method of still farther disfiguring themselves. A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 These latter are incidents in the personal history of the gods, which, if told at all, can only be told, as they had been told from the beginning, in all their repulsiveness. The Idea of God in Early Religions Do not blame me for the repulsiveness of the comparisons. Eugenics and Other Evils In the hands of folly and affectation, their repulsiveness is aggravated by the simpering conceits which usurp the place of the strongest passions of our nature. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 The characters of Defoe's other novels—Colonel Jack, Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, and Roxana—are so repulsive, and so entirely unaware of their repulsiveness, that we can take little interest in them. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 The pictures, if toned down, are dull; if up to nature, are garish to repulsiveness. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy When he was not reading, the repulsiveness was to me overpowering and I shrank from his very presence. Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties The moment she went through a door the sense of dark repulsiveness came over her. The Lost Girl But I soon felt how trivial are externals in comparison of genuine ability; or perhaps, how much even their repulsiveness may add to the power of genius. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 The whole appearance of him, arresting and almost awe-inspiring as it undoubtedly was, had in it the repulsiveness of the unnatural—and, with that, all the tragedy of pitiful waste. The Crooked House But though the ancients regarded Thanatos as a gloomy and mournful divinity, they did not represent him with any exterior repulsiveness. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome The prejudice that had been first implanted in Lennon's mind by the repulsiveness of the girl's drunken father now prevented him from making any allowances for her difficult position. Bloom of Cactus Their chief virtue lay in their violence and repulsiveness. Preventable Diseases That schoolroom had, I am sure, none of the dulness and repulsiveness of other schoolrooms to us. Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors The latter has long sighed for Lípotchka, but his personal repulsiveness, added to his merchant rank, has prevented his ever daring to hint at such a thing. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections This repulsiveness of existence, of course, did not affect the audible consciousness of the family about their representing the most progressive state of civilized man. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life He looked around for means to sink it in these waters, and yet not handle its repulsiveness. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) We must go at our work gently and good-naturedly, and then there will be no straining or morbidness or repulsiveness of manner. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric It is not over clean, and has an air of sharpness and repulsiveness that at once attracts attention. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City The Messiah’s sin-covering gaze did not for a moment dwell upon the repulsiveness of that carrion. Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá The fact that a boy is your son, or that a girl is your daughter, cannot wholly neutralize the repulsiveness of their odious traits. The Friendships of Women Look at those antique statues of the tenth and eleventh centuries, mute, meager, their pinched and stiffened lineaments grinning with a look of living suffering allied to the repulsiveness of death. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life In fancy he saw her beneath that repugnant marble in all the repulsiveness of death, and this vision left him cold, indifferent. Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) The hideous deformity, the rottenness and repulsiveness of the leper Hann is brought out in such vivid detail that we sicken and fain would turn aside in disgust. Violets and Other Tales The peculiar repulsiveness of Constantius is not due to any flagrant personal vice, but to the combination of cold-blooded treachery with the utter want of any inner nobleness of character. The Arian Controversy It has a strange repulsiveness for the "solid man" of business. The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future He piled it on about the Major and his extreme repulsiveness, and the draggled appearance of Gertie, and Frank's incredible obstinacy. None Other Gods They related the incident, which lost nothing of its repulsiveness by the relation: "And you saw no one." In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa But he has softened the repulsiveness of the original tale, and has also brought it to a ringing close, not supplied by the bare facts. An Introduction to the Study of Browning The idol was an exact replica of the original one; more, there was a subtle beauty now where before there had been a frank repulsiveness. The Adventures of Kathlyn It seems certain that the blow is by no means a tap on the shoulder with a roll of paper, as some actors, feeling the repulsiveness of the passage, have made it. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth He was standing a little apart from the turmoil, talking to a man on horseback; a man with half-closed, beady, black eyes, drooping mustaches, and a face reptilian in its repulsiveness. Empire Builders Bolshevism is revealed in all its reactionary repulsiveness as something between which and absolute, individual dictatorial power there is "absolutely no contradiction in principle." Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy Yet her loving pity followed even them: still, like the Lord whom she served, she loved them in spite of their repulsiveness and ingratitude. Elizabeth Fry But in spite of his repulsiveness he had evidently experienced the natural activities of humanity. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage Here the surveyor managed to express his belief that the reason the lady wore a veil was because of the repulsiveness of her face. The Nameless Castle They lie in a remote almost disused storehouse of our minds and show the fascination or the repulsiveness of all vague and remote things. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Feelings of Others.—Want of respect for the feelings of others usually originates in selfishness, and issues in hardness and repulsiveness of manner. Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics Its rider, who in all specialties of repulsiveness tallied with the beast to a hair, impaled a letter on the tip of his spear and handed it down. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 The suspicion and the cynicism had gone from his face, and she understood all at once why people still trusted him, still liked him, notwithstanding his reputation, notwithstanding even his repulsiveness. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage "Do you think there is another face that the description of mine would fit, Herr Count?" he asked, a certain melancholy softening the repulsiveness of his features. The Nameless Castle But his feeling was intensified by the personal repulsiveness of the professional medium. Robert Browning I prefer to leave him alone, and to content myself with but one quotation, which has a touch of both wisdom and repulsiveness: 'Consult your reason betimes. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays For once, the purpose back of all her toil among the people there in the great mill town was lost sight of in the sheer repulsiveness of the tasks she had had to perform. The Precipice This is what saves the history of Hetty from coarseness and repulsiveness. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy There is a repulsiveness about it which few people can overcome, but it is unique, and second only to the Taj Mahal of all the sights in India. Modern India Both of these are mutilations of unquestioned repulsiveness to the untrained sense. Theory of the Leisure Class For some reason, unknown even to Ben, he attracted news whose repulsiveness made them that much more magnetic to readers. Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel I went back, and then an awkward girl of sixteen, with uncombed hair, and a painful repulsiveness of face and air, sat on a log for half an hour and stared at me. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains Whether the pathos or the moral repulsiveness of the spectacle most impressed me, so suddenly become a stranger in my own city, I know not. Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. The Communist Manifesto Perhaps this was due to the repulsiveness of the work; at any rate, the people who worked with their hands were a class apart, and were made to feel it. The Jungle For all the repulsiveness of the accents, Amber was not sorry to hear them. The Bronze Bell Solitude is infinitely preferable to uncongeniality, and is bliss when compared with repulsiveness, so I was thoroughly glad when I got rid of my escort and set out upon the prairie alone. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains A fanatic zeal illumined it, taking away half its repulsiveness. The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage In this case the effect was enhanced by the extreme repulsiveness of the face, and, I may add, its proximity, for, as I think, it almost touched mine. The Room in the Dragon Volant He was a terrible brute, a big grizzly bear, ugly to repulsiveness. A Rough Shaking It is not overclean, and has an air of sharpness and repulsiveness that at once attract attention. The Secrets of the Great City All the sophistry and art of Ridman could not veil its repulsiveness. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy The poet's feeling cannot possibly lead him astray when his sense of beauty affords him a talisman revealing all the ugliness and repulsiveness of evil. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years The half-kindly look disappeared from her eyes, and the hard lines settled into an expression of malevolent repulsiveness. Blindfolded Here we have in all its naked repulsiveness the Stoic theory of predestination. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius The suggestion of Miss Arrowpoint as a patroness was only another detail added to its repulsiveness: Klesmer's proposal to help her seemed an additional irritation after the humiliating judgment he had passed on her capabilities. Daniel Deronda Frail outcast—the very scum of a blacks' camp, its repulsiveness was tragic. Tropic Days The mountains become huge rubbish-heaps, without even colour to clothe their indecently nude forms; and each strives with its neighbour for the prize of repulsiveness. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Assuredly few men are responsible for any physical repulsiveness; we cannot all be 'Belvedere' Apollos; but then the envoy was not only of the ugly, but also the cunning-looking class. With Zola in England Even castor oil has been stripped of its repulsiveness by the combinations which the soda water fountain affords. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents The unfavorable comments which the most orthodox ever made upon Scott were as to the repulsiveness of the old Covenanters, as he described them, and his sneers at Puritan perfections. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam Strange how the same breeze will give to some cheeks a dull repulsiveness and to others an entrancing glow! Affairs of State On that bright June morning a dreadful apparition lost little of its grim repulsiveness because the body was that of a young and good-looking woman. The Postmaster's Daughter It is a form of absolute repulsiveness,—a skeleton-shape half defined:—the suggestion of some old reptile- spine astir, crawling with its fragments of ribs. Two Years in the French West Indies Without plenty of detail the facts have to be run together, or listed, merely as so many things that are true; they then form only a skeleton, with all the repulsiveness of a skeleton. How to Study and Teaching How to Study There is nothing like the repulsiveness of the Hindoo burning, only half carried out, or even of Mr. Trelawney's furnace for burning poor Shelley. The Recreations of a Country Parson He wears a semi-bandittical garb, which, with his craven features, presents his character in all its repulsiveness. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter Beggars in all degrees of filth and deformity and repulsiveness run alongside the carriage in imminent danger from the wheels, begging for alms. Europe Revised Mr. Malipizzo, for all his incredible repulsiveness, posed as an ardent and successful lover of women. South Wind The nature of that repulsiveness I now fully understand, and it appears to me as if my eyes had always possessed an unconscious faculty which has at last become conscious to me. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2 Their innate repulsiveness is so great that, like the snake's charm, it may fascinate; yet an indescribable, haunting disgust goes with it. Alice of Old Vincennes If the road bore none of the repulsiveness of the shambles, it was still little more cheerful than the graveyard. The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest A powerful odor of chloride of lime and carbolic acid shocked her sensitive nostrils with their tales of all the repulsiveness those disinfectants were intended to destroy or hide. The Red Acorn Want of respect for the feelings of others usually originates in selfishness, and issues in hardness and repulsiveness of manner. Character What I sensed behind in those eyes chilled me with its repulsiveness and strangeness. The Mutiny of the Elsinore The repulsiveness, however, according to that wise man, is greatly modified by its second property, namely, an energetic attraction or adhesion to all material bodies. Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance Then she made a motion with one of her hands as if sweeping from before her eyes some flimsy repulsiveness—the web of an unclean thing flashing in the air. Phyllis of Philistia Perhaps the eye-patch over the right eye helped a little to put the finishing touch of repulsiveness upon a countenance already most unpleasant. The White Moll They were a most unlovely band and chief among them in authority and repulsiveness was the black sergeant Usanga. Tarzan the Untamed It is many-legged and hairless, its hide resembling that of a newborn mouse in repulsiveness. The Chessmen of Mars Not only did she omit to think of his features and figure; I verily believe that she loved him the more for his repulsiveness. Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance What is more, the repulsiveness of the worst of the certified plays would protect the Censorship against effective exposure and criticism. Mrs. Warren's Profession That they were repulsive and uncanny she could not forget, but if they meant her no harm she could, at least, overlook their repulsiveness. The Chessmen of Mars |
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