Sentence examples for for affront from inspiring English sources
The most common reasons for affront include offensive language, sexually explicit scenes, homosexuality and unsuitable religious viewpoints.
Here, the bottomless capacity for affront of morally upright, often evangelically Christian, middle England clashes repeatedly with the patrician disdain of those men (and they were overwhelmingly men) who ran the culture industries, be they telly, theatre, cinema, magazines or pornography.
could be seen as a would-be act of atonement for affronts such as these.
I kept an eye out for affronts to the history of ancient Greece this week but couldn't spot any.
IT CAME to Seneca by his own hand in a warm bath after falling foul of the emperor Nero, to Boethius by order of the Ostrogothic King Theodoric and to Giordano Bruno for affronting the Inquisition.
Two years later, in a statement issued by the chief cabinet minister, the government also acknowledged its involvement in the recruitment of comfort women and its deception of those women, and it apologized for affronting their honour.
As Sarah and Abigail jockey for affronts and access, the queen struggles to discern whose intentions are pure.
For a few years, a young radical group of Israeli settlers in the West Bank have committed random acts of violence and vandalization against Palestinians and their property to make them pay the price for affronting their way of life.
For a few years, a young radical group of Israeli settlers in the West Bank have committed random acts of violence and vandalisation against Palestinians and their property to make them pay the price for affronting their way of life.
"In the name of the church of Rome, I cannot not express bitterness for the affront to the Grand Jubilee of the year 2000 and for the offense to the Christian values of a city that is so dear to the hearts of Catholics across the world," the pope said in a Sunday message delivered from a balcony over St. Peter's Square.
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.
