Revulsion Sentence Examples

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  • This produced a complete revulsion of public feeling.

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  • In 445 a revulsion of feeling led the Megarians to massacre their Athenian garrison.

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  • A revulsion of feeling, however, soon took place.

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  • A revulsion of feeling soon led to his reinstatement, apparently with extraordinary powers.

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  • This was due, no doubt, to his revulsion from the sternness of his upbringing and the period of stress through which he passed in early manhood, but also to the sympathetic and emotional qualities which manifested themselves in his early manhood.

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  • With a sudden revulsion of feeling Henry offered peace to France, which King Louis XII.

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  • It is difficult to allow the appositeness of this special illustration; on the other hand, Ford has even in this case shown his art of depicting sensual passion without grossness of expression; for the exception in Annabella's language to Soranzo seems to have a special intention, and is true to the pressure of the situation and the revulsion produced by it in a naturally weak and yielding mind.

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  • The first point is to be noted, because it has often been supposed that Hobbes's political doctrine took its peculiar complexion from his revulsion against the state of anarchy before his eyes, as he wrote during the progress of the Civil War.

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  • It was doubtless a revulsion of feeling against the doctrinaires and in particular against the puritanic reign of Michel that made her turn to Chopin.

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  • A revulsion of feeling was completed in 338 by the orator Demosthenes, who persuaded Thebes to join Athens in a final attempt to bar Philip's advance upon Attica.

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  • Alexander's diplomatic skill and moral authority, reinforced by the Capetian alliance and the revulsion of feeling caused by the murder of Becket, enabled him to force the despotic Henry to yield, and even to do penance at the tomb of the martyr.

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  • The rapid publication of the Reminiscences by Froude produced a sudden revulsion of feeling.

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  • The revulsion of feeling after the witchcraft delusion undermined his authority greatly, and Robert's Calef's More Wonders of the Spiritual World (1700) was a personal blow to him as well as to his son.

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  • Revulsion from the dogmatic temper of the Presbyterians, and the unreasoning enthusiasm of the Independents favoured sympathy afterwards with Cambridge Platonists and other liberal Anglican churchmen.

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  • The key to Reid's philosophy is to be found in his revulsion from the sceptical conclusions of Hume.

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  • The flight of the emperor had led to a revulsion of feeling in Vienna; but the issue of the proclamation and the attempt of the government to disperse the students by closing the university, led to a fresh outbreak on the 26th.

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  • The instantaneous revulsion of public feeling was somewhat unreasonable, for Pitt's health seems now to have been beyond doubt so shattered by his hereditary malady, that he was already in old age though only fifty-eight.

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  • There is no revulsion, as later, from dogma as such, nor is more stress laid upon one dogma than upon another; all are treated upon the same footing, and the whole dogmatic system is held, as it were, in solution by the philosophic medium in which it is presented.

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  • The savage reprisals on their suppression, in especial the "Bloody Assizes" of Jeffreys, produced a revulsion of public feeling.

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  • After the election, and Constantine's return to Athens as King, a noticeable revulsion of feeling set in, especially in provinces where the anti-Venizelist vote had been strong.

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  • A sudden revulsion of feeling swept over his mind.

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  • Some of us may well have felt the same sudden revulsion at the first images of the Milan accident some weeks ago.

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  • The result was a massive wave of revulsion against the war.

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  • In April 1872 came the revulsion; there was a shrinkage of $60,000,000 in ten days; then in 1873 a tremendous advance, and in 1875 a final and disastrous collapse; in ten years thereafter the stock of the Comstock lode shrank from $3,000,000 to $2,000,000.

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  • It was the expressions on the faces, frozen at the moment of death, that caused the greatest revulsion.

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  • We feel good in crowds, we have a revulsion for feeling ' out of place ' .

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  • The opening of the concentration camps at the end of the war provoked a widespread revulsion in the world and within Germany itself.

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  • The British Methodist Church shares the widespread revulsion at the March 11 th bombings in Madrid, and unequivocally condemns them.

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  • Moreover, the abstract expression of rejected pluralism was a widespread revulsion from the very concept of a private sector.

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  • This vicious and cowardly crime has filled us all with horror and deepest revulsion.

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  • Christ was teaching us to view our own secret sins with the same moral revulsion we feel for wanton acts of public sin.

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  • Surely the public revulsion throughout these islands to the Omagh bomb must mark a new beginning in political relations here.

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  • The Conservatives were kicked out last year in a wave of popular revulsion that has almost no equal in a modern democracy.

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  • There is a lot of beneath the surface revulsion to this going on by those below that level of rank.

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  • Carol is a bit unhinged, with a revulsion to men and sex.

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  • So, again, it is in place where the movement of revulsion from a mechanical philosophy takes the form rather of immediate assertion than of reasoned demonstration, and where the writers, after insisting generally on the spiritual basis of phenomena, either leave the position without further definition or expressly declare that the ultimate problems of philosophy cannot be reduced to articulate formulas.

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  • Her sublime folly turned out to be wiser than their wisdom; in two months, from May to July 1429, she had freed Orleans, destroyed the prestige of the English army at Patay, and dragged the doubting and passive king against his will to be crowned at Reims. All this produced a marvellous revulsion of political feeling throughout France, Charles VII.

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  • In an ' exalted spirit ', she felt revulsion from the wounds she was tending [and] bitterly reproached herself.

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  • We feel good in crowds, we have a revulsion for feeling ' out of place '.

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  • Richard considered a career in pediatrics, but his revulsion at the death of some of the premature babies dissuaded him.

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  • Most were motivated by " revulsion at the idea of an Arab land being occupied by a non-Arab country ".

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  • All this leads to almost universal revulsion at the sight of scurrying legs and scaly tail.

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  • The country is united in revulsion at these acts.

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  • World revulsion at evidence of the Holocaust, which unfolded in 1945, ensured that there were going to be trials for war crimes.

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  • The courage and resourcefulness of their youthful leader inspired the people to make heroic sacrifices for their independ- of the ence, but unfortunately such was the revulsion of feeling against the grand pensionary, that he himself and his brother Cornelius were torn in pieces by an infuriated mob at the Hague (loth of August).

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  • In politics the revulsion from his particuar conclusions did not prevent the more clear-sighted of his opponents from recognizing the force of his supreme demonstration of the practical irresponsibility of the sovereign power, wherever seated, in the state; and, when in a later age the foundations of a positive theory of legislation were laid in England, the school of Bentham - James Mill, Grote, Molesworth - brought again into general notice the writings of the great publicist of the 17th century, who, however he might, by the force of temperament, himself prefer the rule of one, based his whole political system upon a rational regard to the common weal.

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  • There seems to have been at that time in south-west Germany a considerable amount of sturdy independent thought among the Franciscans; Pellicanus himself became a Protestant very gradually, and without any such revulsion of feeling as marked Luther's conversion.

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  • The rebels' appeal to the Seleucid governor of part of Syria (88 B.C.) caused a revulsion in his favour, and finally he made peace by more than Roman methods.

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  • At this time, and for many years to come it will be very difficult to express the true revulsion against such attacks.

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