Literary notes about Revolting (AI summary)
In literature, “revolting” is employed as a potent adjective to express disgust or moral repugnance across a spectrum of contexts—from the physical and sensory to the ideological and emotional. Authors use the term not only to describe something that instigates immediate, visceral revulsion, as when referring to degrading appearances or unsavory habits ([1], [2], [3]), but also to characterize social injustices and hypocritical behaviors that inspire moral outrage ([4], [5], [6]). It appears in narratives that critique societal structures and challenge established norms, serving to intensify the reader’s reaction to cruelty and unethical practices ([7], [8], [9]). Moreover, “revolting” can be rendered in a sarcastic tone that highlights the absurdity or degradation inherent in certain actions and attitudes, thereby enriching the narrative with a complex layer of emotional and moral evaluation ([10], [11]).
- A frog sitting in a shell, peeping out from it with big, glittering eyes, and moving its revolting jaws.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering, unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.
— from The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - My harassed face struck me as revolting in the extreme, pale, angry, abject, with dishevelled hair.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The old German theory of blood for a blow is a revolting superstition of the age of chivalry.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer - Why have you forsaken the Lord the God of Israel, building a sacrilegious altar, and revolting from the worship of him?
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - In common with the whole of Asia that is not tainted by Islâm (which is tantamount to Judaism), I regard such tenets as odious and revolting.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer - This vice, horribly revolting as it is, seems to go hand in hand with intemperance.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - It was not the money, but the fact that this money was used with such revolting cynicism to ruin his happiness!”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - There too he had been treated with revolting injustice.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad - “You are being taught, so to say,” he began, “being educated, being given a chance, you revolting young person!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - So that, in the general social dissolution and revolt, we are to have this deepest and dismallest kind of it, a revolting soldiery?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle