Writer David M . Meyer states that the film never overcomes the basic repulsiveness of its hero, but notes that some parts of the film, though violent, are better than the film as a whole : " Best known is Gloria Grahame's disfigurement at the hands of " �ber "-thug Lee Marvin, who flings hot coffee into her face ."
32.
The conceit is understandable to anyone who's seen the original film : Murnau, his art director Albin Grau, and his screenwriter Henrik Galeen all must have rummaged around in their psychic basements in order to help Max Schreck ( whose last name, conveniently, means terror or horror in German ) generate a performance that's conversation-stopping in its sinister strangeness and dignified repulsiveness.
33.
Pale, dirty, with drugged eyes, vulgar, repulsive . . . " " John Cornwell alleges that a worrying impression of anti-Semitism is discernible in the'catalogue of epithets describing their physical and moral repulsiveness'and Pacelli's " constant harping on the Jewishness of this party of power usurpers " chimed with the " growing and widespread belief among Germans that the Jews were the instigators of the Bolshevik revolution, their principal aim being the destruction of Christian civilization ".
34.
AllMusic's Andy Kellman found his rapping inconsistent on what was nonetheless " a deeply fascinating accomplishment " in West's catalogue : " As fatiguing as it is invigorating, as cold-blooded as it is heart-rending, as haphazardly splattered as it is meticulously sculpted, [ the album ] is an extraordinarily complex 70-minute set of songs . . . As the ego and ambition swells, so does the appeal, the repulsiveness, and most importantly the ingenuity ".
35.
The first of these, from William James'1890 " Principles of Psychology ", appears to use the term in a slightly different sense than the article in question : " . . . what might be called the anti-sexual instinct, the instinct of personal isolation, the actual repulsiveness to us of the idea of intimate contact with most of the persons we meet, especially those of our own sex . " The second quotation is from Bertrand Russell's ubiquitous 1929 essay, " talk ) 07 : 01, 9 February 2011 ( UTC)
