Sentence examples for its affronts from inspiring English sources

But she didn't choose the theater as the prism through which to examine racism simply because she had suffered its affronts.

He also wrote several plays Blanca de Borbón (1870), Ni el tío ni el sobrino (1834; "Neither the Uncle nor the Nephew"), and Amor venga sus agravios (1838; "Love Avenges Its Affronts").

"If you ain't cheating," said one of the traders involved in the currency exchange scandal, "you ain't trying". If we're not addressing the financial sector's systemic threat to our economy, or its affronts to our system of justice, then we ain't trying either.

The problem with most modern metal isn't its affront to my lack of masculinity; it's the fact that it employs a Saturday morning cartoon version of angst.

But the second coming of the Microbus it's not, and this is perhaps the essence of its affront.

In its Affront to British Justice campaign, the Daily Mail has pushed for McKinnon and others in a similar position to stand trial in the UK.

Fear, for the damage this horror might do to body and soul; loathing, for its affront to justice, mercy, love and the spirit of fun.

Despite its affront to the strict Neoclassicism of the day, which forbade the mixing of genres, tragicomedy flourished, especially in England, whose writers largely ignored the edicts of Neoclassicism.

Still more flagrant in its affront to international fair trial standards, added the report, is the setting up of "military commissions" to prosecute non-US citizens involved in the undefined crime of "international terrorism".

The art forces itself upon you, every time – that's its graphic affront – but it doesn't always hold your mind.

"As the Contempt of the Religion of a Country by ridiculing any of its Ceremonies or affronting its Ministers or Votaries, has ever been deeply resented, you are to be particularly careful to restrain every Officer and Soldier from such Imprudence and Folly and to punish every Instance of it". American ideals won immediate support from the Canadians, but American misconduct squandered it.