Sentence examples for affront the from inspiring English sources
To Magdalena, the near extinction of these species is an affront, the most senseless thing.
To affront the scholarly ear, Larkin gladly struck minor, even bathetic chords.
The chirpy guitar-strumming habits of many Roman Catholic churches may affront the Anglo-Catholics' finicky aesthetic sense.
In perhaps the worst affront, the land was right along Highway 101, the principal road through the area.
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".
Such results would seem to affront the intuition that tends to divide phenomena into deterministic (or computable) and random (or uncomputable) parts.
The latest affront is the lawsuit the House Republicans have brought against the president.
The affront, and the yearning, can get the blood boiling.
The affront provokes the great warrior to sit out the fighting — until his beloved friend, Patroclus, is killed by Hector.
The affront of the old woman refusing to unlock the church is returned to in a subsequent poem.
Mr Annan, angry at the affront to the UN's authority, also condemned Iraq.
