Sentence examples for take the affront from inspiring English sources

The BJP could, of course, ask Modi to step aside as its prime ministerial candidate, and nominate in his stead someone more agreeable to allies, but after leading the BJP to its near all-time high of seats, Modi will not take the affront lightly.

Everybody likes the pass except defensive players, who take the dominance of the passing game as an affront.

Reid, the Australian Open and Wimbledon champion, seemed to take the loss of the first set as a personal affront.

Some on the Hill seemed to take the Scotsman's admittedly abject loss of line and length as a personal affront.

Was it an affront to the tournament — and American soccer — last year when the club did not take the Open Cup seriously?

The affront took the form of a planned acquisition of their building, for twenty-seven million dollars, by the real-estate firm Kilroy Realty.

Taken individually, the affronts don't seem like that big a deal.

Some took the last as an affront: how dare a woman be so forthright and so ugly?

The decision by the Pulitzer board to omit an award in fiction this year is still reverberating in the world of publishing, which took the decision as an affront, Julie Bosman writes.

His cousin and brother-in-law Mardonius, supported by a strong party of exiled Greeks, incited him to take revenge for the affront that Darius had suffered at the hands of the Greeks at Marathon (490 bce).

Failing to take affront at the slur, however, is not the same as failing to take note of it.