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Here is a Senate candidate who relishes the act of taking patently illegal and morally repulsive stands.
The Mixe in Mexico consider that the odour and taste of a plant are important criteria in deciding what plants to use for an illness [ 1 ] . The Waorani in Amazonian Ecuador consider that plants with strong, or repulsive odours will force symptoms to flee from the body and this belief guides their use of Renealmia alpinia and a Philodendron for snakebites [ 28 ] . The Warao in eastern Venezuela consider 'bad air' to be pathogenic and 'good' or perfumed air to be therapeutic [ 29 ] .
Consider the strange feelings that would arise in someone who entered a great collection of antiquities, in which genuine and spurious, beautiful and repulsive, spectacular and insignificant objects, from many nations and periods, lay next to one another in complete disorder.
Several biochemical factors influence axonal growth by either attraction or repulsion and may guide axonal growth by "hemming in" the growth cone to a channel containing permissive molecules surrounded by repulsive molecules [ 38, 39].
She found him leprous and reptilian and saw in him "concentration, craftiness, cruelty and something indefinably repulsive."