8 Metaphors for aversions

His especial aversion was a gaunt old woman with a big hooked nose and a pair of startlingly large, sad-looking eyes.

Some people adapt themselves to circumstances instantly; the aversion of one hour becomes the delight of the next; but those who are guided by reasoning, especially where there is a shade of resentment,who are fortified by pride of opinion, and by the idea of consistent self-respect,such persons are slow to change a settled conviction; the course of feeling is too powerful and too constant to be arrested and turned backward.

Let it suffice to say, that the mutual aversion which they felt, some months before, at Mr. Whedell's house, on New Year's day, was the starting point in their course of true love.

Aversion is usually the motive which leads Indian women to what are called "suicides for love."

And Father Oliver told of his liking for Annie McGrath and of his aversion for marriage, acquiescing that aversion might be too strong a word; indifference would more truthfully represent him.

If a representation is suspended between counteracting forces a feeling results; desire is the rise of a representation in the face of hindrances, aversion is hesitation in sinking.

This aversion to the main theme of troubadour poetry is Marcabrun's most striking characteristic.

He says: "It can hardly be doubted, but that Johnson's aversion to Milton's politics was the cause of that alacrity, with which he joined with Lauder in his infamous attack on our great epic poet, and which induced him to assist in that transaction."

8 Metaphors for  aversions