Sentence examples for large affront from inspiring English sources

Many women in Babbage's circles tell him that an unfollow is taken as a slight and a block as a large affront; both may result in retaliation.

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It was part of a larger sense of affront at an Englishwoman taking over a quintessentially New York, and American, magazine.

His monstrously large house is an affront to the aged and eccentric Charlotte Graves, a former teacher who lives next door in a fine, ramshackle old place that her family has owned for decades.

A state funeral for Thatcher would not be regarded as any kind of national occasion by millions of people, but as a partisan Conservative event and an affront to large parts of the country.

To imply that schools are safer than home for children is an affront to the large community of caring home-schooling parents.

"To fail to understand this is to risk an affront to a large stabilising and normally acquiescent section of this country which will sow completely unnecessary seeds of dissent".

The profit margins of some of the larger publishers are portrayed as a moral affront, given the budgetary challenges that libraries face.

Placing this large industrial facility in a park is an affront to the neighboring community and a precedent that threatens the integrity of all New York parks.

finds the three paragraphs I wrote about the present state of a large portion of its buildings and grounds an "affront" to those now working there (Letters, June 19).

He survived the affront with his policies largely intact.