Surely the Giants and Jets, in their ignoble pursuit of every last marketing dollar, do not need to affront their fans, many of whom lost family members in the Holocaust, by placing the Allianz name on their stadium.
But a figure as public and generally respected as Comey throwing around the L-word like that is politically damaging to say the least, not to mention a personal affront to Trump a man who doesn't have a history of letting affronts go without losing his cool.
For those who recognise in this case the classic signs of domestic violence, this judgment has been an affront, not to speak of the argument put forward by his lawyer this week that Pistorius should avoid a prison term.
Like the terrifying photo that put her in the news, Meza's direct gaze poses a moral challenge: what is happening at the border, and not only there, is an affront, not to some huge, poor, undifferentiated mass, but to the irrefutable personal dignity that gives Ramos's impromptu portrait a haunted power.
Capital punishment's worst affront is not to the dignity and humanity of the condemned.
Mr. Blair responded by calling the protesters' actions an "affront," pledging not to be intimidated by them and predicting that normality would start returning in 24 hours.
It's difficult not to interpret it as an affront to all those other hard-working people who directly serve the public and who, thanks largely to both the city and state's frail financial health, are working to do so much more with so much less to help those in need day in and day out.
I have known history students tempted for the first time in their lives to plagiarize a paper because they could not imagine themselves writing anything that would not affront his critical eye, let alone satisfy him.
Frisch is alive to the irony, but claims the club is not an affront to its republican ghosts.
