In its heedless affront to bourgeois sensibilities, the relationship of Stravinsky and Chanel mirrors the revolutionary spirit of "The Rite of Spring," as does Chanel's preference for stark black-and-white.
"Moonlight" is a fine and fierce work of art, but its very subject, a poor, black, gay young man, is, in its every detail, an affront to the Administration's benighted sensibilities.
Tristan offered to participate in a mock interview, but when he got on stage, he announced that he did not want to work at McDonald's, saying that the company had falsely denied using beef flavoring in its French fries -- an affront to vegetarians like himself and to Hindus.
He took it home, and in an affront to both its name and nature, made it into a guest room.
("What is that?" Ive later asked, rhetorically, in mock affront at its design).
And in an added affront to Colonel Qaddafi, it was created by an Israeli living in Tel Aviv.
After the man walked away, Plummer whispered, "You're fired," in feigned affront, and laughed.
Habib Bourguiba, the father of Tunisian independence and the country's first president, was a staunch secularist who banned polygamy, legalized abortion and once sipped orange juice on television during the Ramadan fast in an affront to the faithful.
Then, shortly after the deal, in an affront to the company's political sensibilities, Unilever reportedly prevented employees from emblazoning the Ben & Jerry's logo on a bus driving them to a protest.
