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Updated: April 30, 2025
No form of self-seeking is morally more weakening than this quenchless craving, which makes the soul hang its satisfaction on what is utterly beyond its sway, on praise and admiration. These stimulants withdrawn more or less even from the most successful in latter years leave a void which becomes the very nursery of ennui, or even of self-disgust.
But when she had once more taken her place in the daily life at the farm, it was, at first with a certain feeling of self-disgust, and later with thankfulness, that she learned that she could face her old life with perfect equanimity.
I was, I really believe, in spite of my secret self-disgust, a little flattered to have the attention of these big fellows. I remember particularly a moment of pleasure caused by the praise of Crawshaw you remember Crawshaw major, the son of Crawshaw the composer? who said it was the best lie he had ever heard.
Recoil from the Bannisdale ways, an angry eagerness to scout them and fly them? yes, that there had always been in plenty. But she dived deeper into her self-disgust, and brought up the real bottom truth, disagreeable and hateful as it was: mere excitement about a young man, as a young man mere love of power over a great hulking fellow whom other people found unmanageable!
"The house was watched they couldn't get away." "That's a good one!" Young Morrow looked his self-disgust. "Hire operatives on your staff, sir, and then have to set others to tail them, and see that they don't get into trouble! Heavens, what an idiot I am! I've found out one thing, though, from those cryptograms" he pointed to the cipher notes on the desk. "Music's a cinch!
As for P. Sybarite, he watched the vehicle swing away and round the corner of Seventh Avenue, a doubtful glimmer in eyes that had burned hot with hostility, a slight ironic smile wreathing lips that had shown hatred. "But what's the good of that?" he said in self-disgust, as the taxicab disappeared. With a sigh, shaking himself together, he went into Dutch House.
It describes an initial state of distress with the aimlessness and cruelties of life, and particularly with the futility of the individual life, a state of helpless self-disgust, of inability to form any satisfactory plan of living.
One does nothing all one's life but make mistakes. Her chief feeling at that moment was one of self-disgust. She moved away without another word, going slowly so that she should not overtake Henrietta.
The guilty doctor took off his hat to that stout and sensible wayfarer, with a pang of self-disgust which avenged Nettie.
"You hit him," said the Mongol, but I felt he must be wrong; if the bullet had found the neck he would have dropped like lead. Never in all my years of hunting have I had a feeling of such intense surprise and self-disgust. I had been certain of the shot and it was impossible to believe that I had missed.
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