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Example sentences for: recoiling

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As far as language, particularly toponymy, is concerned, what has been called the Second Russian Revolution was adumbrated by the recoiling in horror from Stalin and his works that followed Khrushchev's address to the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956.
And if, as an actor, Duvall gets drunk on Sonny's megalomania, as a director he keeps the character soberly in focus, so that we're simultaneously swept up in Sonny's good while recoiling from his evil, agog at his purity while giggling at the hamminess.
Clearly most of them are; we are expected to read them without recoiling, though we may grope for a dictionary.