The red, distended nose, the wild expression of his countenance, his jagged hair, hanging in tufts over his ragged coat collar, give him a repulsiveness not easily described.
But his feeling was intensified by the personal repulsivenessof the professional medium.
On the one hand, he puts no limits to the blackness of the character itself; on the other hand, he provides against repulsiveness by giving it a special attraction of another kind.
Perhaps this was due to therepulsiveness of the work; at any rate, the people who worked with their hands were a class apart, and were made to feel it.
They lie in a remote almost disused storehouse of our minds and show the fascination or the repulsiveness of all vague and remote things.
When he was not reading, the repulsiveness was to me overpowering and I shrank from his very presence.
A powerful odor of chloride of lime and carbolic acid shocked her sensitive nostrils with their tales of all the repulsivenessthose disinfectants were intended to destroy or hide.
As the door closed behind the Doctor, Rachel threw herself upon the cot, in a fit of despair at the wreck of all her fancies, and the repulsiveness of the career upon which she had embarked.
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.
In the hands of folly and affectation, theirrepulsiveness is aggravated by the simpering conceits which usurp the place of the strongest passions of our nature.
A female whose looks approach repulsiveness should, at least, have a character beyond suspicion; and for any woman to run away from the neighbourhood where her doings are known, is not the way to inspire confidence.
What is more, therepulsiveness of the worst of the certified plays would protect the Censorship against effective exposure and criticism.
Moreover, as we see in verse 29 that parents actually ate the flesh of their own children, it is evident that the mere repulsiveness of the food cannot be taken as an objection.
Objection has been taken to this passage on the score of the exceeding repulsiveness of the food.
