He was not allowed into the base officers' club there, a snub he would regard one of the most insulting actions taken against him in 37 years of military life.
"Mother!" dramatizes the inevitable connection between casual slights and grievous wrongs, the slippery slope that inescapably binds dismissive or insulting or contemptuous actions on an intimate scale with acts of grievous violence.
"Con Edison's management must change if the public is ever to get relief from its insulting and offensive actions," he said.
Twenty-two-year-old John McEnroe directed insulting language and actions at linesmen and umpires at Wimbledon and was therefore not elected to honorary membership in Wimbledon's All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.
His actions — insulting opponents, women and minorities, picking fights with the party establishment and the powers at conservative Fox News — might have justified the skepticism.
Known for being a staunch integrationist and for his regularly giving black actors non-stereotypical roles, Fuller was furious, finding the studio's actions insulting.
She has certainly been the center of debate over the propriety of her actions, including insulting exchanges on the town's online chat room, ChatPutnam.com.
The substitution of Herrmann has a deflating effect — it creates a feeling of reënactment rather than of spontaneous action — and is insulting to both composers.
Pope John Paul II today canonized 120 Roman Catholics killed in China although the Chinese government had condemned the action as an insulting reminder of colonial imperialism.
