Sentence examples for affronts at from inspiring English sources

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In a league full of blithe felons, Tebow and his oppressive piety don't seem like such horrendous affronts at all.

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("What is that?" Ive later asked, rhetorically, in mock affront at its design).

Death rears in affront at the text of the cantata, its translation produced on cards by the weary Harlequin.

It was part of a larger sense of affront at an Englishwoman taking over a quintessentially New York, and American, magazine.

He takes particular affront at how Florida historiography has mischaracterized pivotal players and events, and he zealously marshalls evidence to set the record straight.

Some bankers may also take affront at the singling out of activities like trading of complex securities known as derivatives, which the panel identified as risky but that they consider integral to modern finance.

He takes personal affront at the fact that Mirren used some colourful language at Glamour's Women of the Year awards ceremony (why was he there?!), but then he quickly moves on to females the world over.

This secret ingredient was the chromosomal kin of Seabiscuit, a rendered member of My Friend Flicka's extended family, and it represented not just a culinary fraud but a cultural affront, at least to people who prefer not to eat what they can saddle.

He was also known for his dandyism: long overcoats, long silvery hair, large, thick-rimmed glasses, a white scarf and the wide-winged wicker chair in which he was often interviewed, his face sculpted in affront at the injustice and irritations of life.

And then my daily affront at this complete lack of agency found validation when some skinny blond dude calling his album "Damn the Torpedoes" uplifted my evenings with a simple phrase about being cut down to size on a regular basis: "Don't do me like that".

After these new comments about Trudeau, perhaps they should be a lot more worried that Trump — who already sees the Mueller probe as a major affront at best and as illegitimate at worst — will discard whatever coaching they give him to evade tough questions about that misconduct, and will instead put his instinctual trust in his power to declare what's true by brute rhetorical force.

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