Richard Schweid, an American journalist living in Barcelona, expounds on this tough, repulsive creature in a delightfully literate little volume, The Cockroach Papers: A Compendium of History and Lore.

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And dark energy may turn out to be almost the mirror opposite of gravity - a repulsive rather than an attractive force, and one that strengthens with distance rather than weakening.

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The underlying premise here is that male geeks are so unattractive, indeed so collectively repulsive, that there is a 50% gap between what they will find attractive and the attractiveness standards of any given other human being.

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Some people find the smell of tobacco repulsive, but its decline as a habit stems of course from the health risks involved.

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We find a smell heavenly or repulsive, or we shrug our shoulders.

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The idea of turning waste water into drinking water may see repulsive to some, but experts say it's already being done elsewhere on a smaller scale.

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But for a Texas homeowner, an impromptu anti-snake solution -- set that repulsive reptile on fire -- came back to bite.

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Salomon Schulman, a key figure in Sweden's Jewish community, told Swedish television that the art was "repulsive in the extreme", according to news website The Local.

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