There was some kind of licorice-flavored soup, noodles, and beer and cigarettes, which, in an affront to all things scared in China, we were told to put out.
("What is that?" Ive later asked, rhetorically, in mock affront at its design).
After the man walked away, Plummer whispered, "You're fired," in feigned affront, and laughed.
He took it home, and in an affront to both its name and nature, made it into a guest room.
In its Affront to British Justice campaign, the Daily Mail has pushed for McKinnon and others in a similar position to stand trial in the UK.
Habib Bourguiba, the father of Tunisian independence and the country's first president, was a staunch secularist who banned polygamy, legalized abortion and once sipped orange juice on television during the Ramadan fast in an affront to the faithful.
Then, shortly after the deal, in an affront to the company's political sensibilities, Unilever reportedly prevented employees from emblazoning the Ben & Jerry's logo on a bus driving them to a protest.
Still more flagrant in its affront to international fair trial standards, added the report, is the setting up of "military commissions" to prosecute non-US citizens involved in the undefined crime of "international terrorism".
"In an affront to First Amendment rights, Water Protectors and allies have been continuously surveilled by low-flying planes, helicopters, and drones, and have had local cell phone communications jammed and possibly recorded," reads an NLG press release announcing the filing of the requests.
