Sentence examples for for affront of from inspiring English sources
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.
I kept an eye out for affronts to the history of ancient Greece this week but couldn't spot any.
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.
could be seen as a would-be act of atonement for affronts such as these.
The island is inhabited by Buddhists and Yamaki had been cursed by Buddha for an affront by one of his ancestors who in a murderous rage, defiled an altar of Buddha in the nearby temple.
"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.
Fear, for the damage this horror might do to body and soul; loathing, for its affront to justice, mercy, love and the spirit of fun.
The opposite of almost everything popular TV stands for: an affront to the MasterChef "passion test", an insult to the entire ideological framework of The X Factor.
Shkreli, however, is best known for an affront to the American public: hiking up the price of the lifesaving drug Daraprim by more than 5,000 percent in September 2015. .
