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Mr. Lewis is alternately magnetized and repulsed by Sellers and goes to exhaustive lengths to comprehend him, eventually resorting to quoting Sellers—a believer in the power of the Ouija board—via a spiritual medium.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

There were those repulsed by the kind of language parodied in these books, and those who forced everyone else to speak this way.

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2025

The resulting documentary has already been released on Hulu in the US - with critics as fascinated by the story as they are repulsed by Nasubi's ordeal.

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2024

Los Angeles has been a character in so much of my music because I’m both attracted and repulsed by it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

The other part of me is repulsed that she’s most comfortable when Andre and Camille aren’t here.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller