The phrase "affront of a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action or statement that is considered disrespectful or insulting, often in a formal or literary context.
Example: "His comments were an affront of a nature that left everyone in the room speechless."
Alternatives: "insult of a" or "offense of a".
So, 512 hours, which is the name of her current programme, may not throw down the gauntlet in that way, but naturally it is an affront of a different sort, a challenge to the people who think art ought to be, or do, or mean something, people whose number is considerable.
Furthermore, the affront of having a whale so coddled in Icelandic waters would not even be offset by the comfort of cold cash, since Keiko would not be on display.
Unprecedented Affront In 1978, when Mr. Carey ran for a second term, he was challenged in the primary by his own lieutenant governor, Mary Anne Krupsak, an unheard-of affront to a sitting governor.
Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) dramatically dubbed the monument "an affront of epic proportions and an attack on an entire way of life".
And also a bit of rage: to watch a man seek "therapy" to convert his "gay voice" to a "normal voice" is no less of an affront of my nature than to listen to Michelle and Marcus Bachmann talk about the virtues of "fixing" gay men through conversion therapy -- we know this is psychologically damaging and that it simply doesn't work.
Rousseff's statements were bold and clear: "In the absence of the right to privacy, there can be no true freedom of expression and opinion, and therefore no effective democracy" and "Tampering in such a manner in the affairs of other countries is a breach of international law and is an affront of the principles that must guide the relations among them, especially among friendly nations.
"The fact that the lawyers for the long-gone show 'Three's Company' have nothing better to do, aside from billing legal hours like truffle pigs, than attempt to bully an Off Broadway playwright of modest means is an affront of the most base kind," Mr. Baitz said.
Some 600,000 U.S. citizens who live in Washington have no voting representation in the House or Senate, an unconscionably undemocratic state of affairs that is no less galling for being an affront of long standing.
An act or language that consists of an affront to a court or interferes with the conduct of its business falls in the category of criminal contempt.
But, when Vesje politely inquired whether he could get the corresponding portion of his deposit back, Tammaro replied that the request was such an affront to a photographer of his stature that he didn't want them to move in, after all.
In a top-down administration like this one, you don't get Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lambasting Netanyahu for 43 minutes and David Axelrod, a senior White House adviser, speaking of "an affront" and "an insult" and a "very, very destructive" step if America's measured leader is not immeasurably incensed.
