It cannot be separated from what the object of our repulsion means to us.
There are tantalising allusions to both the fascination and the repulsion which animated the later Ottomans' ambivalence towards Europe.
The minister will urge society to show its "collective repulsion about so-called 'honour crimes'", including murder, rape and kidnap.
And just like me in my pierced and platinum days, you relish and thrive on the power of repulsion.
Strangely, as with almost all facets of disgust, it is in our nature to be attracted to this repulsion.
Excerpted from her new book, "That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion" (Norton).
Food is a great passion, but it can also inspire terrible repulsion.
The nuclei in the plasmoid, so the theory goes, would be moving so fast that when they hit each other they would overcome their mutual electrostatic repulsion and merge.
These stories of attachment and repulsion are being played out in or around Hasidic communities in Brooklyn every day, and surely, for that matter, among Sikhs and Jains in Queens, too.
"It is a gesture that provides a message of unity and repulsion, " Francisco Javier Ansuategui, the central government's Madrid representative, told Spanish news agency Europa Press at one gathering in the capital.
Maglev technology has been around for years as the propulsion method behind certain European and Asian trains, and basically involves using the Physics 101 properties of magnetic attraction and repulsion to provide an object with momentum.
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