Sentence examples for sort of affront from inspiring English sources

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

The Tories, of course, regard the NHS's existence as some sort of affront to their basic values: it is an institution that puts need before profit, an approach that neoliberalism was supposed to have definitively disposed of.

Yes, The Times never got paid for that, but the lack of social features this is a sort of affront to me as a reader.

It offends a reader, is taken as a sort of affront.

"For any sort of personal affront, you're permitted to threaten the person with a gun".

Johnny Miller of NBC called it "sort of an affront to the championship in some ways," and the commentator Brandel Chamblee wondered whether their manager, Chubby Chandler, the founder of International Sports Management, had orchestrated their absence as some sort of power play.

In a football context, this is the sort of nuclear affront we saw when Frank Lampard reacted to some Joey Barton impudence by declaring: "I don't think Joey should even talk about me and Steven Gerrard.

Likewise there are legions of gamers for whom the death (or decline at least) of the adventure game represented some sort of personal affront, and who believe that games and stories are destined to come together.

The source of her fury was her notion that her computer's operating system had been designed idiotically as some sort of personal affront to her.

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

It was the recurrent public-art problem: once you go into a museum, you have agreed (tacitly, anyway) to put up with all sorts of visual affronts, but, if you're just walking by outside, you haven't.