"He's an ex-banker from Rothschild!", charged a television interviewer that evening, in a tone of deep affront.
This has been his philosophy throughout his career, and it is the source of his deeper affront against the entire project of secular, liberal progress, which is rejected in the melancholy of his prose.
Coal has no single, tangible object, like the pipeline, to focus on, nor does it have villains like Charles and David Koch, who are, through Koch Industries, the biggest single foreign leaseholders in the oil sands, and who are emblematic not only of the power of Big Oil, but of deeper affronts to our democratic process.
But to assist the prosecution in digging that hole deeper is an affront to the principles of justice that underlie a defense attorney's vital role in the adversarial system".
But to assist the prosecution in digging that hole deeper is an affront to the principles of justice that underlie a defence attorney's vital role in the adversarial system".
I suppose that because we tend to regard our own faces as wholly distinct, bearing the particular mark of our souls — anything else would be an affront to our deep-rooted human exceptionalism — the thought of a lookalike invites fascination.
Other times, though, the affronts went deeper.
When our own Jamie Oliver tried to point out that for American schools to give children deep-fried pizza for breakfast was not a good idea, there was great affront.
There are good reasons why clubs normally move on disenchanted players rather than risk them being corrosive inside the dressing room and it cannot be entirely ruled out that Rooney – described to this correspondent recently as "having long-standing and deep-seated unhappiness" at Old Trafford – has the capacity to undermine David Moyes if he takes it as a personal affront.
But for those who object to AI stripping even skin-deep layers off of the onion of reality, Lensa's subtle algorithmic fiddling might still come over as an affront.
