Beck

When I started out playing small clubs, you could feel the room recoil from certain kinds of songs. Anything that was too personal, that had a sentiment to it, or was laying out your feelings, was immediately booed. People would start throwing things. And anything that was really provocative or humorous or radical was embraced or cheered.

American Musician

Joy Reid

Americans have, at various times, leaned on the FBI for a measure of justice that local and state police couldn't be counted on to deliver, and recoiled in fear at their exercise of raw federal power. That uneasy trust; the combination of need and dread, is the lot that FBI agents live with day to day.

American Journalist

Carolyn Porco

To my mind, most people go through life recoiling from its best parts. They miss the enrichment that just a basic knowledge of the physical world can bring to the most ordinary experiences.

American Scientist

Laura Lippman

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

American Author

Carnie Wilson

Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.

John McCain

I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.

American Politician

John Lithgow

I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage.

American Actor

Jack London

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

American Novelist

Ramana Maharshi

It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

Indian Philosopher

Bill Keller

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

American Editor

Used to describe an involuntary physical reaction to a powerful event or force.

Physical Response

Often used when the backward movement happens by surprise or without intention.

Unexpected Force

Commonly describes the backward movement of mechanical objects, like guns, after operation.

Mechanical Action

Used to express a strong, often negative, emotional response to something.

Emotional Reaction

Indicates an immediate feeling of discomfort or aversion that prompts a reaction.

Instant Discomfort

Typically associated with stronger emotions such as horror, disgust, or shock.

Intense Emotions

References the actual motion caused by an external force, such as a blow or shock.

Physical Movement

Can be a measure of the force or impact of an event, object, or action.

Measure of Force

The noun form often refers to the subsequent effect or result of a forceful action.

Consequence

 We saw that misinformation and misperceptions started to spread even faster through the communities, which became even more alarmed about the situation. They started to recoil from those people that you saw in those space suits, as they call them, who had come to help them. And then the situation deteriorated even further.

Bruce Aylward: Humanity...

 server for the government to access it but I think naturally we would recoil in horror at the consequences of doing something like that even if there would be some cases where it would help solve crimes and our view is that if we're gonna be forced to have conversations digitally because we can't be sitting

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 and can be reared on organic waste, like vegetable peelings, that might otherwise just end up rotting in landfills. Feeling hungry yet? Faced with a plate of fried crickets, most people today would still recoil, imagining all those legs and feelers getting stuck between their teeth. But think of a lobster.

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 You would recoil. You would call the police. You would do something, because it's literally impossible to penetrate somebody's physical space and not get that reaction. We do so, remember, intuitively, effortlessly. This is our body wisdom; it's not something mediated by our language.

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 the recoil of those elastic elements that were loaded by the muscle action or the release of the bow in the bow and arrow model and it's the recoil of those elastic tissues or that bow that causes the launch of the tongue or the arrow in the bow and arrow example

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 We can make good guesses about some of them, like oysters, worms, and jellyfish. These are examples of animals that either lack a brain or have a very simple one. So an oyster may recoil when squirted with lemon juice, for instance, because of nociception.

How do animals...

 So as a humanist, I believe in a proactive approach to life. The changes that we want cannot be achieved only by dreaming but require doing as well. The challenges that we face cannot go away if we recoil and retreat into our shells, wishing and imagining

Why I choose humanism...

 probably two things wouldn't you you would recoil you call the police you do something because it's virtually impossible to penetrate somebody's physical space and not get that reaction we do so remember intuitively effortlessly this is our body wisdom is

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 My best friend in the world -- a brilliant, philosophical, charming, hip young man -- was diagnosed with schizophrenia. I witnessed some of the friends we'd grown up with recoil.

There's no shame in...

 by reluctant to leave his mate but it would have been suicide to stay and face the men's guns Seaton would later recoil from what he called the

Recoil