When I asked if he had neglected them, he seemed insulted.
The workers there seemed insulted that Mr. Plotnikov had chosen to investigate their store.
In fact, we thought at first we might have the word "quirky" in our title — when we told this to a Chinese friend, he seemed insulted.
Asked if there was any connection between Mr. Berlusconi's right-wing populism and Mussolini, Mr. Montanelli, no fan of fascism, seemed insulted on Il Duce's behalf.
(Relentlessly protective of his brand, Mr. Stanley seemed insulted that many believed the Hendrix song "Purple Haze" was about the Monterey LSD — far from inducing haze, he sniffed, the quality of his acid would confer upon the user preternatural clarity).
The Tass correspondent covering the case of the mysterious visitors to Voronezh, Vladimir V. Lebedev, seemed insulted that anyone would treat the story with anything but the full seriousness that it was given by the agency.
After a spell in the States, Shah starts wearing a Brooks Brothers suit and seems insulted by the playful suggestion that it was probably made in India, saying fiercely: 'Italian made.
Constance Colasacco, 82 years old, who was visiting Teitel Brothers on a recent morning with her son, Robert, seemed insulted by the idea that she or any other longtime customer would care about the proprietor's pedigree.
"Cyprus had started having the conversations about what it was intending, and that's been going on for half a year". That's why some wealthy Russians seemed insulted by the insinuation that the collapse of the Cypriot banking system this week caught them by surprise.
The person on the other end seemed insulted when I asked if they were a robot.
