Sentence examples for affront from the from inspiring English sources

Just when it seemed that contemporary artists had wrung the last aesthetic surprise and audience affront from the century-old genre of junk assemblage, along comes Barlow with things unforeseen.

This perceived affront from the RFU provoked some criticism from the press outside of London, as well as from the team manager Scott, who felt that with the team's official apology after the England match, the controversy should have put to rest.

Outside the karate class, flexibility, if not a Zen-like self-restraint in the face of serious affronts from the Kremlin, have defined Mr. Prokhorov's low-profile role in Russian politics this summer.

In fact, he considers the film a personal affront from Kormákur himself.

In response to this latest affront, critics from across the political spectrum have derided Mashaei's intrusion into religious matters, and hardliners in particular beseeched the president to dump his oft-beleaguered sidekick - to no avail.

Investigators said they were also able to thwart an attempted killing in Harlem that stemmed from an affront against the mother of a jailed gang member.

The novel strongly implies that he seduces an older boy who becomes devoted to him but also suffers from the affront that the relationship creates to his own morals.

Stopping blacks and whites from marrying is an affront, the justices held, to "one of the personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men".

He staged a fascinating fit on the Senate floor this morning, rising to the defense of inefficiency and delay, stomping around his Senate desk in high indignation at the "affront to the American people" from ending unlimited debate.

The case has also deepened a profound split among liberals, dividing those who view government regulation of political speech as an affront to the First Amendment from those who believe that unlimited corporate campaign spending is a threat to democracy.

Or perhaps readers have gotten used to such sensory affronts from their reading material.