Sentence examples for real affront from inspiring English sources

I think it's a real affront to our values.

How is this being ginned up?" —Nancy Pelosi "It is a real affront to people who lost their lives….

But Mr. Paul, a strict constitutionalist, took it as an opportunity to school Mr. Gingrich, saying sternly, "that's a real affront to the separation of powers".

Your March 28 front-page article "Disenfranchised Florida Felons Struggle to Regain Their Rights" has done a service in calling attention to Florida's real affront to democracy.

Democrats weighing in against the proposed project included Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, and Howard Dean, the former national party chairman, who call the project "a real affront to those who lost their lives".

And that the U.S. Senate's leading Democrat, Harry Reid, opposes locating the mosque there, while Howard Dean, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said he was hoping for a different site that would not represent "a real affront to the people who lost their lives" nearby.

Many of the show's rawer moments are underpinned by real-life affronts that Stephen sustained; the second episode's jailhouse beating stemmed from a day he spent in jail after being arrested for possessing a gram of weed.

Indignation - resentment over an affront, real or imagined, to one's esteem - is a function of pride.

Guns are routinely drawn over real or imagined affronts, and a single instance of violence can still erupt into a retaliatory chain of killings.

So when the gilded charm of power has been unwisely abandoned, Lear is undone by life's first petty affront, and the real nature of the man is revealed: he's a spoiled child, in essence, unequipped to deal with even the most sensible of requests.

And when Becky/Rebecca meets her real-life Prince Charming, he explains the affront of her beauty to England: "You have no business here, children will point at you and start to sob, saying, 'Mummy, I thought you told me that attractive people were extinct.