Sentence examples similar to extreme affront from inspiring English sources
"THE eye adjusts," as fashion people say, a truism routinely exploited in defense of styles so extreme that they often affront conventional tastes.
During the Roman occupation of Israel, the presence of battle standards containing animal representations was looked upon as an affront, while extreme pietists would not even handle Roman coinage because of the images stamped on it.
For this reason, a lie about a recent public statement--& particularly a televised one--is one of the most extreme, brazen kinds of affront that an official can offer to the public's intelligence.
— For Death Valley, a place that embraces its extremes, this has long been an affront: As furnace-hot as it gets here, it could not lay claim to being the hottest place on earth.
It is an affront to the victims of some of the most extreme droughts and storms on record.
Extreme criticism of the proposed Muslim community center in lower Manhattan is an affront to the religious freedom that our Founding Fathers fought to secure.
On Friday, lawyer Myles Jackman — who purports to specialize in "Obscenity and Extreme Pornography" — addressed the face-sitting crowd to denounce the new regulations as an affront to free expression and a harbinger of censorship to come.
Such an affront to the mind's assessment of right and wrong can result in extreme emotional responses.
"Ignoring for a moment, the extreme and remorseless brutality of the acts themselves, our employees see Peltier's crimes as a complete affront to our cherished system of government under the rule of law," Mr. Freeh wrote of the killings of the agents Jack R. Coler and Ron A. Williams.
