Sentence examples for of affront from inspiring English sources

"Argentines will not accept this kind of affront to human dignity," the post said.

Even his mother's decision to close the coffin for his grandmother's funeral is a kind of affront.

Part of the sadness of the letter's decline is exactly that sort of affront to the form's dignity.

Abolishing them just because Muslims now want some of their own would add to their sense of affront.

Greengrass told the Guardian that he'd been prompted to make the film by a "sense of affront and anger".

Brecht and Weill are still full of affront and offence – and might still provoke a walkout or two.

Unprecedented Affront In 1978, when Mr. Carey ran for a second term, he was challenged in the primary by his own lieutenant governor, Mary Anne Krupsak, an unheard-of affront to a sitting governor.

Honor was a fragile thing — it could be challenged and undermined and wiped away by any number of affronts.

Downbeat and defeated, Michael takes it in stride; he appears to have survived a lifetime of affronts.

Ms. Stone expressed her chagrin at how her quotes had been misconstrued, and others pointed out the litany of affronts and inaccuracies the article committed.

His hard-pressed landlady accused him of "affronting" her before the assembled neighbours, and McGonagall retired to bed wrapped in self-righteousness.