Sentence examples for an affront to decency from inspiring English sources

Its position is antithetical to American values, offensive to the law and an affront to decency.

As Pendleton stages it, the sisters' dark, safe house is an embodiment of their lazy solipsism, an affront to decency.

But Governor Bush and his people have acted as if hand counts in Florida were an affront to decency.

As Austin Pendleton stages it, the sisters' dark, safe house is an embodiment of their lazy solipsism, an affront to decency.

One of the greatest scandals was caused by Manet's painting The Luncheon on the Grass, which was considered an affront to decency as well as taste.

It's an affront to decency and to Jewish people around the world". Mr. Posner's family were Russian Jews who converted to the Russian Orthodox Church.

But, she said, refusing to allow unlimited amendments is an equal affront to decency.

Each character depicted is a moral affront to decency and our national ideals of freedom and equal justice under law.

Shchedrin knows that it is both a kind of affront to decency and to the decency of the novel itself to present a family reunion in such inhuman terms, and his narration, at points throughout the book, registers the offense.

And it is yet another affront to decency.

It's official: Frankie are the most scandalous affront to decency since the Sex Pistols and the biggest band, Liverpudlian or otherwise, since the Beatles.