The most common reasons for affront include offensive language, sexually explicit scenes, homosexuality and unsuitable religious viewpoints.
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.
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.
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.
Queen is not offered (although Mayoress is), and you can be His (but not Her) Highness, His (but not Her) Honour, Marquis but not Marquise — omissions that suggest retribution for past affronts, or, conceivably, punishment for unacceptable behavior on previous flights.
"a thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts; ambition or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families, or partisans.
