Sentence examples for affront to respectability from inspiring English sources

Cameron's shooting ratio was about ten misty-eyed Madonnas to every Sappho, Hypatia, or Beatrice Cenci, but somehow the potent erotic undercurrent in her work was never perceived as an affront to respectability, and it still isn't.

As the great, buoyant misanthrope of American comic film, Fields offered a sustained affront to bourgeois respectability (which is part of why he was embraced in the 60's).

It was an affront to time.

Companycommand was an affront to protocol.

Such an affront to secularism!

Oh, the affront to democracy.

That is "an affront" to America.

It's an affront to democracy.

Trump's Vainglorious Affront to the C.I.A.

"It's an affront to the United States of America.

"It's an affront to human dignity".