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.
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.
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. .
And maybe she was still a little in love, and she cared about him, and liked to talk to him, but for him to show up out of nowhere, like in some bad movie, ready to embrace and be embraced, ready to become the star, the hero who crossed the world for love: that was, for Elisa, much more of an affront and a humiliation than a cause for happiness.
The Royals had intentionally walked Robinson Cano, who had already hit a solo home run, to load the bases for Rodriguez, an affront to the ego and pride of a power hitter like Rodriguez.
Some 600,000 U.S. citizens who live in Washington have no voting representation in the House or Senate, an unconscionably undemocratic state of affairs that is no less galling for being an affront of long standing.
In the nineteen-fifties and sixties, he published a collection of his early short stories and compilations of longer works that appeared in The New Yorker, including "Franny" and "Zooey," but his public inaccessibility quickly became, for many, an affront, a provocation, an outrage.
On July 19 he was arrested once more, this time for defacing the house front of a woman named Laura della Vecchia, a crime known as deturpatio, often committed as revenge for an insult or affront.
Their basic proposition: that the Constitution bars punishment for ideas, however hateful — and that tacking on extra prison time for bias is an affront to the First Amendment.
After you ask the same question with increasing frustration, for instance, it feels like an affront for an artificial voice to continually produce the same deadpan response.
Was there an approved mechanism for redressing such an affront besides blunt instinct?
