Isn't the real scandal of infidelity at this late stage the eternally scandalized?
Abstraction may have still scandalized most Americans, but suddenly it was a homegrown scandal, with nothing sissified about it.
She scandalized society still further when she adopted French dress, which featured low-cut bodices and revealing sheer fabrics.
Audiences were scandalized at Ibsen's refusal in A Doll's House to scrape together (as any other contemporary playwright would have done) a "happy ending," however shoddy or contrived.
To that end, he scandalized Confucians of his day, who believed that the elite should not engage in manual labour, by becoming an accomplished metalworker and busying himself with alchemical studies.
The Arabs, however, who had learned of the Sykes-Picot Agreement through the publication of it, together with other secret treaties of imperial Russia, by the Soviet Russian government late in 1917, were scandalized by it, and their resentment persisted despite the modification of its arrangements for the Arab countries by the Allies' Conference of San Remo in April 1920.
Ḥiwi al-Balkhī, a 9th-century skeptical Jewish pamphleteer, scandalized the faithful by openly attacking the morality of Scripture and by issuing for schools an expurgated edition of the Bible that omitted "offensive" material (e.g., alleged stories of God acting dishonestly).
But even that highly placed friend could not save him in 1762 when his treatise Émile; ou, de l'education (Emile; or, On Education), was published and scandalized the pious Jansenists of the French Parlements even as The Social Contract scandalized the Calvinists of Geneva.
Many were scandalized, for the term had long been in use.
In the course of a life that scandalized his contemporaries, de Sade lived out many examples of the sexual compulsion on which his works centred.
His three full-length plays, Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1964), Loot (1965), and What the Butler Saw (produced posthumously, 1969), were outrageous and unconventional black comedies that scandalized audiences with their examination of moral corruption, violence, and sexual rapacity.
