If Gordon's defection has generally enraged the crusty, high-living Harris, the younger man's latest affront has put him into such a lather that he has hurled the wrong cylindrical object into the interoffice mail chute.
But by coming out as gay in a patriarchal tribal family, Ahmet had turned himself into the ultimate affront to religion and filial honor, even with parents who had adored him.
The Madras high court's judgment marks a shift in this trend, and is a direct affront to the BJP's incursions into literature and art.
That, in turn, distorts the banks' decisions: since such funding is cheap it is hardly surprising that profit-maximising bank bosses gorge on it.Rigging and milkingAll this turns banks from champions of capitalism into affronts to it, reliant on rigged markets and taxpayer subsidies.
But it did result in the addition of a court-ordered label to the packaging with the title "Judicial Injunction" and a warning that sticking needles into the doll is an affront to Mr. Sarkozy's dignity.
There are those who see the Stones' transformation into a brand as an affront to the very spirit of rock 'n' roll, a betrayal of the lawless, piratical impulse that once made them great.
Such results would seem to affront the intuition that tends to divide phenomena into deterministic (or computable) and random (or uncomputable) parts.
Kaplan says he takes bad bread as "a personal affront", and takes his own to shame chefs into making more effort.
This affront to Pembroke's honour drove him irrevocably into the camp of the king, and thereby split the opposition.
However, if you're not into something because it's an affront to your values, your body or your own pleasure, then see point #7. 7. If you hate it, don't cave.
