Sentence examples for calculated affront from inspiring English sources
For another the film is a calculated affront to those who prefer their movie characters likable.
Sporting corpse paint and weaponry, spouting anti-Christian rhetoric and releasing badly recorded, ear-splitting anti-music, the bands were a calculated affront to the values of Norwegian society.
One Georgia statesman, the late Representative Eugene Cox, announced that his friends were swearing off French dressing, and another, Representative Prince H. Preston, told his fellow-congressmen that the Assembly's edict was "a calculated affront to the people of this country".
No valid achievement of any kind was secured by the war, at the cost of nine million lives.These are tonic conclusions, calculated to affront many a piety.
The book in question, about whose reception he seemed more than usually fretful, was La Chambre claire (translated as Camera Lucida): a "note on photography", as the French subtitle has it, which in retrospect looks calculated to affront.
Only the vegetation and the other spectators at the Biennale — generally young, drifting hand in hand from one calculated, not infrequently obscene affront to another — belonged to a world I wanted to be in.
Nothing's calculated like — calculated.
Everything was calculated".
