Sentence examples for affront him from inspiring English sources
Diseases such as pancreatic cancer, which claimed Jobs's life in 2011 at the age of 56, affront him.
Consider the following passage by a nineteenth-century female writer: Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; but there was a mixture of sweetness and archness in her manner which made it difficult for her to affront anybody; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her.
Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; but there was a mixture of sweetness and archness in her manner which made it difficult for her to affront anybody; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her.
He threatens the owners of newspapers with reprisals by the federal government, talks of changing libel laws to facilitate lawsuits for statements which affront him, proposes revoking FCC licenses for media which ruffle him.
The effort, Weber conceded, just wasn't there, and that was an affront to him.
He called me, offended, and said, "You told your family?" As if this was somehow an affront to him.
While appreciating the gesture of the loan, it was an affront to him and his country that the artefacts were not permanently based in Mali.
How will a teenager participate in the prosecution of her rapist if her family isn't behind her? How will a wife charge her assailant if her husband thinks the attack was more of an affront to him than a violation of her?
He took the canceling of a date to be a very personal affront to him and disrespectful of his time.
The existence of a mythification of this brief passage of his life strikes me as an affront to him and to people who love his writing".
If I am known in Rome to be an architect, if I am seen drawing or with a pencil in my hand, I cannot enter into genteel company who will not admit an artist or, if they do admit him, will very probably rub affronts on him in order to prevent his appearing at their card-playing, balls and concerts.
