"Expedition: Robinson" offered a potent cocktail of repulsion and attraction.
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Fascination and repulsion by women's bleeding and other bodily functions?
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It can detect expressions like happiness, repulsion, fear, anger and befuddlement.
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They did have a very visceral repulsion to the whole idea.
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"Absolutely not!" he said, with a look that verged on repulsion.
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"When I drink the water, I feel repulsion," said Ms. Pinto.
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Through ontological upheaval it offers new regimes of attraction/repulsion to pursue.
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" Or if it was Joe Pesci instead of Catherine Deneuve in "Repulsion.
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We balanced our push and pull, our repulsion and allure, through distance.
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Other scientists offered other ideas like squirty sterigmata, bursting bubbles and electrostatic repulsion.
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"In basic terms, it really is a kind of attraction and repulsion," McGregor said.
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But for magnetic repulsion, this force is not linear with distance like the bungee.
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But his curse is that the attention he attracts is largely ridicule and repulsion.
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There does seem to be a special, visceral repulsion among some voters toward the president.
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That the victim was a man seemed to heighten my repulsion because of its rarity.
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Nowadays, the audience squirmed in their seats, not out of repulsion, but out of mimicry.
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For something so common and relatively benign, herpes is treated with collective horror and repulsion.
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Wayne rigorously draws out their dance of attraction and repulsion: Will they kill each other?
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Japanese combat sports are the thing we can't look away from, despite our sense of repulsion.
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Those years were a harsh combination of wanting to help her, repulsion, and terrible extreme guilt.
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The feeling of repulsion they inspire is matched only by how utterly boring they all seem.
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I had a similar repulsion to using laptops in East Village cafes during the early noughts.
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VICE: Why do so many people seem to have an innate repulsion to eating human flesh?
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To a degree, movies like Rosemary's Baby and Repulsion that demand an uncertain relationship with the protagonist.
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Our repulsion serves as a mechanism to keep us away from things that may make us sick.
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Right after the repulsion, the magnet is moving up with a speed of around 1.2 m/s.
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But as emissions rise, the killjoys are resorting to shame and repulsion as weapons against environmental evils.
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" Caribbean Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott complained that the author&aposs prose was tainted by his "repulsion towards Negroes.
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A combination of retirements, scandals, and suburban voters' repulsion of Trump have rattled the GOP's House delegation there.
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Her fascination with terrorism approached Manson levels of grey, in which repulsion and fascination exist in equal measure.
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Ghosts, ghouls, witches, incubi, succubi, werewolves, possessing demons and demonic children are figures of fascination, repulsion and threat.
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As with Catherine Deneuve's character in "Repulsion" (1965), isolation has whipped latent disease into a full-blown pathology.
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The animating force of this election season has been the utter repulsion most people feel towards the establishment.
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The character's behavior has to evoke repulsion in the readers, meanwhile engaging their sympathy for the suffering soul beneath.
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Amirpour is still dealing in long, pregnant pauses, and in the struggle between attraction and repulsion, inertia and action.
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With the inverted Cheerios effect, attraction or repulsion is a result of an interplay between elasticity and surface tension.
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For example, a raised brow could indicate concern or bewilderment, while a downturned mouth could show feelings of repulsion.
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Dickens had this wonderful phrase, "the attraction of repulsion," meaning that something is so awful you can't stop watching.
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The fear of men isn't only a physical threat—rejection, repulsion, objectification—Shraya explores how misogyny attacks self-worth.
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But deep down I knew my repulsion was self-directed — that one day I would end up like them.
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If the vessel is shown out of context, it would bring the user back to the same taboo and repulsion.
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At the risk of providing small-sample anecdote as scientific argument, their reactions range from anger to shock to repulsion.
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Overall, the simultaneous adoration and repulsion toward The Shape of Water tells us a lot about where we are culturally.
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Her sculptures are visceral, scaled to the size of a human body, and made to induce both attraction and repulsion.
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His mental unraveling in "Camera Obscura" somewhat echoes those in many horror outings (including, for starters, "The Shining" and "Repulsion").
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"I could probably use some help managing money," he said, and a shock of repulsion ran all the way through me.
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Ligaya's image robs him of his peace, and nihilistic repulsion towards exploiters creeps into his soul until he takes savage revenge.
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Which is why the whole thing was such a comedown when I felt neither surges of ecstasy nor retches of repulsion.
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In the novel, Marnie is allowed to speak of her "repulsion and horror"; Graham takes no sadistic pleasure in the situation.
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So I thought about it quite a bit and also about attraction and repulsion of characters, about how you smell other people.
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So the invasion and repulsion of invasion are constants in that story, but the sympathy does not rest in the same place.
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But that argument misses a crucial point: Cooperation is a matter of degree, and the degree is affected by attraction or repulsion.
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Perhaps an instinctual repulsion against that signal will shape the bureau's behavior now, leading to a renewed commitment to investigate the Russia matter.
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Of course the most complicated games are the ones that people play with one another — contests of attraction and repulsion, affection and aversion.
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Instead, they are simply riffs on the same loose pool of central themes: corporate oppression, maternal angst, bodily repulsion, the barbarity of Darwinism.
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An unusual and controversial exhibition in Malmo, in the south of Sweden, invites visitors to explore their notions of food through sheer repulsion.
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In the mirror, Salem despised their new facial hair; they tried to overcome the repulsion by growing mutton chops and a scraggly beard.
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These rules include attraction, whereby the fish move closer to their neighbors, and repulsion, whereby the fish increase their distance from their neighbors.
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"I've tried to balance attraction and repulsion in each frame I have built for the film," the director says in the press notes.
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We currently know of four fundamental forces, and we know that three of them have bosons carrying their messages of attraction and repulsion.
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As in "Sin City" or "A Confederacy of Dunces," plot is pointedly unimportant to "The Plotters," mostly a medium for satire and repulsion.
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" The book is "mostly a medium for satire and repulsion," with a somewhat convoluted plot, but "intelligence and humor keep Reseng's tale afloat.
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"The inspiration behind this is to disconnect man's repulsion for the insects and make them accept and at least, aesthetically, love them," Goet says.
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Fascination and repulsion with the "hermit kingdom" run easily and dangerously into the idea that ordinary North Koreans are enemies of the outside world.
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By controlling the strength of their repulsion, Dell can create a deeper, clickier feeling for the keys than their 2499.99mm travel would normally allow.
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Viewers must overcome their initial shock or repulsion to the visceral subject matter in order to experience the fine details of Erick Swenson's work.
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The legendary actress began her career in the 1960s and starred in classic films including Belle de Jour, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Repulsion.
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I grasped to understand how Jason could possibly have done this, feeling love for the person I'd known and repulsion for what he did.
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Pumpkin Spice Rum is like rum (already an intense, acquired taste) but made more powerful and sugar-sweet, to general repulsion across the board.
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But his subconscious repulsion at the prospect of fatherhood manifests itself through perverse, weird, frightening symbology — most notably in the deformed monster he fathers.
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Where the book counts on reflective repulsion for Johannes, Waititi's Jojo, because he's so gullible and sunny, makes audiences' responses to him more complicated.
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In Pitagora's opinion, the repulsion factor of anal goes beyond the hygiene concerns and taps into our culture's obsession with hiding body fluids and odors.
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She recalled them passing around a hookah, yelling in Arabic, and expressing repulsion at the American-style cold cut platter served at a community function.
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Mutually committed cattle prodders of each other's darker, stranger brains, torturing out each other's best ideas, before the chemical repulsion and bed-death had struck.
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By not directly referencing one thing in particular, I try to create something that addresses both attraction and repulsion, making objects that exist in between.
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In psychological terms, those gory slasher flicks are inheritors to classic films of containment and domestic tension, such as Hitchcock's Rear Window and Polanski's Repulsion.
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It's a Francophile's delight with shivery roles from two major stars — Isabelle Huppert in "Elle" and Catherine Deneuve in "Repulsion" — and an animated Parisian cat.
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Race, already absurd as a concept, has been pulled in too many directions by the forces of attraction and repulsion that exist between blacks and whites.
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Jennifer Lawrence's blonde and domestic derangement could have walked straight out of Polanski's Repulsion (1965), while the fear of supernatural pregnancy layers on Rosemary's Baby (1968).
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So it makes some sense that the president seems unbothered that half of the eyeballs now fixed on him are filled with repulsion instead of fascination.
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Researchers first discovered widespread repulsion to this particular tone in a 2012 study intended to help the Australian government come up with unappealing packaging for cigarettes.
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But surely you know there are more repulsion factors to floor feces than just smell (texture, temperature, the knowledge that you have in some way failed civilization).
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S. Nightfall" in a poem, and said his prose was scarred by his "repulsion towards Negroes" and the "self-disfiguring sneer that is praised for its probity.
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That repulsion is soon replaced by a craving that will drive Justine closer to her sister and fellow student (Ella Rumpf, terrific) and further from her classmates.
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There is enough craftsmanship for people who are not usually fans of horror to sink their teeth into, recalling techniques reminiscent of Roman Polanski's Repulsion or The Tenant.
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Bloom's drawings and paintings are challenging, fascinating, disturbing, opulent, and scabrous – paradoxes of sensuality and repulsion, matter and immateriality, particularly in his depictions of cadavers and body parts.
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In March, Deneuve, who starred in Roman Polanski's Repulsion, defended the director, who pleaded guilty to to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
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Dubbing the society-wide repulsion to the president's signature red hats as "MAGAphobic," Trump fans are using the app "63red Safe" as a guide to conservative-friendly restaurants.
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Around hole 2,000—a number he considered absurd at the time—he placed a magnetic repulsion around the hole, making it impossible for the ball to land inside.
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The final rose – Daniel's – wemt to Haley, the one girl out of his options who was open (at least in the confessionals) about her repulsion she had for him.
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Drawing from real rotting fruit much in the manner of a Dutch still life painter, Ryan translates nature's handiwork into intricate textural works that strongly balance attraction and repulsion.
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The most compelling antagonists are often those who offer a heady mix of attraction and repulsion, such as the morally defunct criminal mastermind and 'Truth Terrorist' of "The Bridge".
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Photos from the red carpet outside the event show Trump and May holding hands – a nauseatingly awkward scene that has caused controversy (and repulsion) among many British people before.
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For whatever reason, you've missed out on one of Netflix's most daring experiments, and one of the most evocative atmospheric horror films exploring the female psyche since Polanksi's Repulsion.
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No one wants to hang out somewhere they might be swarmed by genocidal frogs White supremacists present a number of immediate problems for Twitter, beyond the obvious moral repulsion.
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It allows us to project legitimate affection toward our loved ones (from the relationship status to the Valentine's Day selfie), but it also allows for sudden repulsion syndrome ("unfollow").
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The second problem is that when you agree to operate within his fantasy, even if you are motivated by the attraction of repulsion, you've given the man your brain.
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Another of her grand subjects appears to be unobservable force-field energies and their pressures of attraction and repulsion and circulation that pass through and around the human body.
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Like Kenneth Silver's French/Jewish mirror, future interpretations of themes such as attraction and repulsion, sacrifice and redemption, must take to heart the contradictions and dichotomies in the artist's biography.
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In addition to countless co-workers expressing their repulsion when the photo was shared with them, Redditors are also chiming in with revulsion in the comments section of the post.
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Mr Corbyn has acted as a talent-repulsion field and Mrs May, never a great promoter of able ministers, has lost 11 members of her cabinet in the past year.
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Viewers must overcome their initial shock or repulsion to the visceral subject matter in order to go in for a closer look and experience the fine details of the work.
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You could argue that Polanski did the same with Catherine Deneuve, in "Repulsion" (1965), another film full of crazy angles and cracked walls, but her madness grew slowly, like mold.
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Often installed in peep-hole-style wall recesses or gleaming glass vitrines, like specimens dropped down from another planet, his works mix elements of allure and repulsion to enigmatic effect.
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I thought about the total and utter sensation of horror that'd envelop me, and I saw myself in a mirror going A4 white, trying not to puke out all that repulsion.
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Aaron Johnson: I've always been interested in the grotesque and how humor and horror can butt up against each other, how repulsion and beauty can work together, or eroticism and death.
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Scorsese has often regarded his gangster characters with a mixture of fascination and repulsion, and they've never looked less glamorous than they do here, particularly in the movie's devastating final stretch.
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You can think of the particles as people who don't like each other but are forced to stay in the same room—where should they stand to minimize their repulsion to others?
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Many of the first and second wave death metal bands either pushed more gore based imagery – Repulsion, Autopsy, Death or anti-religious/occult type art from bands like Morbid Angel and Deicide.
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"Having a period is experienced by both men and women as a source of vulnerability, shame, and repulsion," says Elisabeth B. Morray, a licensed clinical psychologist who works with U by Kotex.
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The Great Siege Road, which runs along the northern edge of Valletta, Malta's handsome capital, recalls the island's repulsion of Ottoman invaders in 1565, an act of defiance that resonated across Christian Europe.
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This time it is not a populist third party that is threatening to siphon off tens of millions of votes from the Republican and Democratic candidates, but powerful feelings of reluctance and repulsion.
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If we as an audience are going to view the red carpet as a reflection of Kawakubo's ethos, our own repulsion might be the biggest indicator of whether guests are doing it right.
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Whatever is going on here, it certainly appears that the legend of goatse—the cavernous shitpipe that introduced millions of innocents to the petulant exhilaration and repulsion of Online—is far from over.
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"This thing is ugly," she said with a look of repulsion, pointing to the bedroom door, a brown vinyl relic of the 70s that pulled closed like an accordion and was, objectively, ugly.
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" — Caralena Peterson is a writer and artist in Washington, D.C. "My image was inspired by the #MeToo Revolution, my personal experiences with the male gaze and a healthy amount of frustration and repulsion.
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Members refer to him as "the Father," and it is clear from historical accounts and his own letters that his repulsion for Spanish communism drove him into the arms of the fascist dictator Franco.
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At the time, the sister only told her provincial superior and her spiritual director, silenced by the Catholic Church&aposs culture of secrecy, her vows of obedience and her own fear, repulsion and shame.
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Sensors on the robo-baby detect what junk is stirred up from the fibers of the carpet, based on factors like lift and drag of the air, electrostatic repulsion of particles, and vibrational forces.
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You'll get a sense of that childlike mix of repulsion and excitement on the new track by UK artist Felicita, who announced today that he's been signed to Columbia Records-affiliated imprint PC Music.
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Attraction and repulsion ebb and flow here, too, and a troubled relationship is subtly suggested before the window screen rises and we are invited to leave the dancers as they appear to begin again.
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Jones wrote perceptively about the Canada paintings and the Briey paintings, which "court risk, walking a fine line between attraction and repulsion," and a number of key people read his piece and took notice.
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Ms. Mirza is a sharp writer and a savvy thinker, quick to suss that sex and politics aren't unrelated, that our beliefs influence whom we bed and how, that repulsion has its own erotics.
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Alain is caught between repulsion and taking advantage of Mario's attentions, juggling this with finding work and his romance with Claire, a white woman whose family can barely tamp down their racism around him.
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Essentially, the clumpy gas inside the galaxy has a stronger gravitational pull on itself than the force of the galaxy's rotation or repulsion from stars and supernovae, according to the observations published today in Nature.
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Although melanoblasts do sometimes repel each other when they get too close, when scientists studied how they moved (and took images after in twenty minute intervals) they saw that the repulsion didn't actually speed dispersal.
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CANNES, France (Reuters) - Roman Polanski, whose 1960s films "Repulsion" and "Rosemary's Baby" focused on women in mental torment, returns to the same theme in a film that screened at Cannes on Saturday to mixed reviews.
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After all the years in which the relationship of scarecrow to bird was one of hostility and repulsion, could it be that the scarer longs to shake off the limiting function for which he was intended?
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But the "wizened freak" with sharp claws and teeth turns out to be a moneymaker when displayed for admission at a local coffeehouse, and customers bewitched by the attraction of repulsion make Hancock a wealthy man.
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At 240, her refusal to adhere to society's view of how a woman of her age should behave incites anger and repulsion (Piers Morgan pretended to vomit into a bucket following her 583 appearance on Carpool Karaoke).
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And as a fun bonus, the show even acknowledges the tension between Eve (Oh) and Villanelle (Comer) for the electric mutual attraction that it is, as they constantly live on the knife's edge of admiration and repulsion.
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SCHNEIER I do think there's a magnetic attraction as well as repulsion that binds these characters — they have to know each other as well as they do to hit as hard, and as precisely, as they do.
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There's never any doubt, of course, that the equilibrium of this arrangement will not hold, but Wayne, in the terrible-roommates tradition of Sam Shepard and Miranda July, rigorously draws out their dance of attraction and repulsion.
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"Repulsion" had an arresting feminist subtext, in which the persistent onslaught of the male gaze drove Catherine Deneuve over the edge; "Darling" doesn't bother with such commentary (though there is a hapless male victim, played by Brian Morvant).
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As a result, the sixth and latest Church Of Misery album, And Then There Were None, features Earthride drummer Eric Little, Blood Farmers guitarist Dave "Depraved" Szulkin, and—most surprising of all, perhaps—Repulsion frontman Scott Carlson on vocals.
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The term appeared in the poetry of the Decadents and Romantics but often to describe physical repulsion, in fact, it was also used before the Great War as a medical term for a loss of control of the body.
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She has always aroused a quasi-aesthetic repulsion within the metropolitan class; and, indeed, it is that continued detestation of what Jonathan Miller in the 1980s sneeringly called "her odious suburban gentility" that most potently keeps her memory alive.
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Neo-Nazis, Bolsheviks, Cossacks, monarchists and Russian Orthodox groups, despite their diverse ideological orientations, all seem to share a repulsion for democratic values, a frustration with the current order and a desire to restore Russia's imperial past and glory.
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And I always feel St. Aubyn is imitating Wilde (in his dialogue), Proust (in his attraction/repulsion toward "society"), or Joyce (in his rare evocations of a reality beyond the literal) — though he really only comes within striking distance of Wilde.
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The exhibit Isolation Chamber Vacation, in addition to drawings and photos, will also feature film screenings—Repulsion (1965), Paris, Texas (1984), and In the Realms of the Unreal (2004) will be shown—and in-house talks at Transition Gallery in London.
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I've tried to go down on women before, and it's been traumatic for the both of us—me because of the repulsion, and my partner because, obviously, no one likes to be told her genitals are in any way unpleasant.
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The story borrows from the Polanski playbook (particularly "Repulsion" and "The Tenant"): A young woman, Darling (Lauren Ashley Carter), accepts an assignment from a wealthy matron (Sean Young) to mind an upscale Manhattan apartment, only to unravel into a homicidal psychopath.
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Hove tends toward the more sculptural while Magruder is mainly a painter, but both have their own spin on the story of desire, seduction, memory, indulgence, repulsion, comfort, consumption, and loathing that is the stuff candyland dreams are made of.
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With flashing eyes that tear up at the drop of a cat and a muscular frame made for monument-worthy poses, this Padraic is a strutting contradiction of attraction and repulsion, daring us to question our conventional notions of the heroic.
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Readers from South Africa to Scotland told us that they watched, with equal amounts of fascination and repulsion, the hearing in which Dr. Blasey accused Judge Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in high school, and he vehemently denied doing so.
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It turns out the easiest way for an ensemble of freely moving electrons to satisfy both their mutual repulsion and the constraints of the Pauli exclusion principle is for them to stay apart and for their spins to align—and thus become ferromagnetic.
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That was the thought that entered my head as I wandered into a room at a medical-themed play party held in a Brooklyn townhouse last fall and saw two dozen faces contorted into expressions of shock, wonder, repulsion, delight, and utter disbelief.
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Julia Hood, coordinator of education at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, N.C., encouraged digging into that hate and repulsion, emotions that can be just as strong as love, and asking yourself questions about what specifically bothers you.
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Because jacking up the price would entail taking away something people are used to — reasonable ticket prices — it prompts a strong feeling of repulsion and injustice, which can lead to consumers turning on businesses and hurting them more than raising prices would help.
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If you're anywhere near Los Angeles tomorrow, we highly recommend you head to the Regent Theater to catch the Waste with a slew of killer guests—Repulsion, Terrorizer, Ghoul, Gravehill, and Night Demon—as they bang out their classic Hazardous Mutation album in its entirety!
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While other presidents sought to hone the art of persuasion, he revels in his talent for repulsion: how many people he attacks (he styles this as boldness); how many people he offends (he pretties this up as authenticity); how many people he sends into exile.
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If the hair has become drier, is damaged, or if there is electrostatic repulsion of the hair via surface charging caused by some chemicals, then the individual shafts may not sit well together, changing the quality of the curls rather than the actual pattern.
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When a young woman wearing shorts was kicked in the face by a man for not wearing "appropriate attire" on a public bus in Istanbul, many Turkish women felt the same anxiety and repulsion as though it was them who had been directly hit by the thug.
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If you were a part of the collective internet freakout when the first trailer for the movie dropped in July, expressing what could only be described as international confusion and repulsion, you may not be surprised by what I'm about to tell you: Cats is awful.
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This concept rings true in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute exhibition, Rei Kawakubo: Comme des Garçons, the Art of the In-Between, which celebrates a designer whose work can easily be described as being caught between two extremes: clothes versus sculpture; fashion versus fine art; beauty versus repulsion; ideas versus objects.
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So he took the same idea of "many different corners," and the attraction and repulsion of other people and their spaces that he had articulated in the Children's Center, and came up with a house that seemed like an unstacking of nested furniture, connected by steps (which also doubled as seating areas).
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A close examination of his surfaces reveals no erasures, and his many stylistic quirks, such as the lacerating strokes denoting musculature and the squiggles indicative of body hair, are less observational details than they are notational shorthand for the artist's overriding attraction to/repulsion from the animalistic nature of the human body.
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Sometimes, Barrett says, repulsion by your dream-self's actions can be fueled by a few criteria: You've done a minor harmful act but it's broken your personal moral code (like smoking when you've vowed to quit) and that's why you feel guilty or you're afraid of the social ramifications that come with getting found out.
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While the thought of swiping through more hopeless dudes only to settle for someone who sent you a gif of a waving telly-tubby as an opener might make you shiver in repulsion, Bob reminds us that dating apps have provided us with an extremely efficient way to find someone willing to satisfy our needs.
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He, Dr. Turner and Lawrence Krauss, now at Arizona State, went on to write a prophetic paper in 1984 suggesting that all problems in cosmology could be solved by adopting an old idea — invented by Einstein in 1917 and later abandoned by him — known as the cosmological constant, a long-range cosmic repulsion force.
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Living in the flicker of that error—interacting with a bot as if its sentiments were sentiments—is to take up residence in the so-called uncanny valley, home to that repulsion we feel from robots that look a lot, but not exactly, like us, a phenomenon identified nearly 50 years ago by robotics professor Masahiro Mori.
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The author, a political scientist and pioneer in the global study of immigration control, provides an indispensable map of what he calls, strikingly, an international "architecture of repulsion": immigration policies that seek to push state borders out from national territory, and that profoundly compromise asylum-seekers' pursuit of safety, both practically and as a matter of design.
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The Beautiful People and its accompanying music video with all its gorgeous grotesqueries is what sweet dreams are NOT made of… The incredibly powerful and frenetic pace of the video with the attenuated and elongated Manson pulled, disfigured and contorted by means of surgical devices, dental apparatuses and other contraptions is absolutely nightmare inducing and an outrageously captivating attraction of repulsion.
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Jessica Kiang, The Playlist: ...it should give you some idea of the bravado of Aronofsky's maximalist approach that his film can refer so directly to schlockbusters and old classics alike, often in the same shaky breath: There's The Innocents, Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, and Rebecca scattered throughout, but there's also a good helping of Pacific Heights and The Skeleton Key.
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A vocal admirer of Hans Hoffman, Stella seems to have reversed the terms of that painter's famous theory of spatial push and pull and applied it to his physical relationship with his viewers: first pulling them in, only to better push them out, alternating attraction and repulsion in a peculiar game of puppetry, with the artist as puppet master and the viewer as puppet.
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And Rosemary's Baby, Repulsion, Knife in the Water, and Chinatown, and the Casey Affleck–starring A Ghost Story, and Louis C.K.'s weird and wonderful Horace and Pete, in which at one point Laurie Metcalf delivers a 20-minute monologue so riveting and human and funny-dirty-agonizing that I went back and restarted the episode as soon as it was over just to see the whole thing again.
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Despite the fact that obsessing over relationship minutiae seems like a holdover from a simpler time (2007 was also a year when people blogged about minutia for fun!), a quick survey among acquaintances revealed that yes, sudden repulsion still happens to people, including "good people" who don't usually have dirtbag knee-jerky reactions to things that happen around them (and who wouldn't "next" someone unless they had a good reason).
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Nothing could be more deflating than finding out the greatest-hand-to-hand fighter in the history of the world (second, arguably, only to Jacob, who took down god), the greatest artist in the history of MMA, the man who transcended the sport and made even non-fans (even those who live in a state of constant repulsion) believe in something—to find out our one true poet had been forced out of a fight by something as decidedly un-poetic as acute cholecystitis.
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