Sentence examples for horrific affront from inspiring English sources
"What happened in the Gldani Number 8 penitentiary facility is a horrific affront to human rights and human dignity," Mr. Saakashvili said in a televised statement, several hours after the abuses were broadcast on TV9, an opposition channel.
You enter through a public library, then round a corner and come upon a lost-in-time art gallery arranged in that cluttered salon style of the 19th century, an era when the unadorned wall was a horrific affront.
It seems that men find the idea of killing a stranger more horrific (or at least an affront to their manhood) than the thought of killing someone they know.
Sadly, as savage as their affronts to civilization are, none of these horrific events set precedents in history, nor generate an art of sustained protest and examination of conscience, comparable to the year 1945.
New York/Bangui, 16 December 2013 - As violence continues unabated in the Central African Republic, the horrific killing, abuse and harm being inflicted on children are an affront to humanity, UNICEF said today.
If there were no other consequences of malnutrition, these horrific statistics would be more than enough to make its reduction an urgent global priority -- and inaction a scandalous affront to the human right to survival.
Relentless violence against children in the Central African Republic is an affront to humanity: UNICEF New York/Bangui, 16 December 2013 - As violence continues unabated in the Central African Republic, the horrific killing, abuse and harm being inflicted on children are an affront to humanity, UNICEF said today.
