repulsion
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At its best, it calls to mind such breakdown classics as "Repulsion" and "Keane" and the unflinching psychodramas of John Cassavetes.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2016
But Rachel Herz, a smell scientist and author of That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion, thinks it can be done.
From Slate • Dec. 27, 2013
Lionised for the brilliance of his early films Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and, more recently, for the Palme d'Or winning The Pianist, French-born Polanski, 79, is a genuine outcast.
From The Guardian • May 25, 2013
Repulsion at the ham’s sickly flesh smell fuelled Jane’s impossible swift acts.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 2, 2012
Your grandfathers called them Centripetal and Centrifugal forces; your fathers called them Gravity and Apergy, names which still cling to them; and you call them Attraction and Repulsion.
From Ancient and Modern Physics by Willson, Thomas E.
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