Sentence examples similar to by the affront of from inspiring English sources
So she was excited by the affront to conventional standards of domesticity that Sartre's arrangement posed.
Part of the military's anger focused, the senior military official said, on the affront of not being informed by the civilian government about the stipulations that affected the army.
This spectral display was, uncharacteristically for July, more than half obscured by snow, which made up for the affront by reflecting the reds and pinks of the Arctic high summer's seemingly endless twilight.
All of Najaf is talking about the affront.
I think the affront to our moral sensibilities comes from the simple, evolutionarily advantageous trait of mistrust of others' motives.
The affront was part of the appeal.
Oh, the affront to democracy.
The affront took the form of a planned acquisition of their building, for twenty-seven million dollars, by the real-estate firm Kilroy Realty.
The affront felt by the judge, Alistair McCreath, is barely concealed between the lines of his statement at Southwark crown court.
Predictably, conservatives and traditionalists filled the Twittersphere and other forms of social media with outrage against what they see as the latest affront by the forces of so-called "political correctness". While this response is understandable - people often see change as a form of loss - it's also misguided.
