A slight affront to the easyJet generation, a death sentence if you are on a dinghy in the cold sea.
Once awoken, he would find a target be it one of my younger brothers, me, or my mom and violently berate them for any slight aggravation or slight affront to his constant shifting code of ethics.
Once awoken, he would find a target, be it one of my younger brothers, me, my mom, and violently berate them for any slight aggravation or slight affront to his constant shifting code of ethics.
Studies, however, set the record straight: children who think they're special grow up to be adults who expect success — and the money and fame it brings — to come quickly and easily, who take offense at the slightest affront to their presumed superiority, who routinely look to be the exception to the rule.
They say, in much politer Seattle lingo, something to the effect of "Back the fuck off, I'm just here to dance not sleep with you, ok?" While Horton readily acknowledges that street and club harassment are way worse in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York, even the slightest affront is unacceptable in the area that gave birth to riotgrrrl.
Let's have an amnesty — from the left and the right — on every made-up, fake, totally insincere, playacted hurt, insult, slight and affront.
He is erratic, eager to pick a fight with anyone for pretty much any perceived slight or affront.
ST. PAUL — After all the geographic gaffes, the snickers, the years of slights, it was a final affront, some who wandered this downtown grumbled this week.
Giving a terrorist the slightest bit of humanity is an affront.
Many women in Babbage's circles tell him that an unfollow is taken as a slight and a block as a large affront; both may result in retaliation.
Weeks before that, in an editorial criticizing his objection to the settlement, it slighted Mr. Schneiderman himself — in a strange affront to the city — as an "ambitious, liberal New York pol".
