Sentence examples for they affront from inspiring English sources

"When these 'representatives' of Jesus to us, and of us to Jesus, take the feudal forms of hierarchy and monarchy, of priests and papacy, they affront the camaraderie of Jesus with his brothers".

It seems that the Princeton Review would also mark down Samuel Richardson as a grammar-vandalising idiot, since that man wrote, in Pamela (1741): "Little did I think … to make a … Complaint against a Person very dear to you … but don't let them be so proud … as to make them not care how they affront every body else".

Not only are they an affront to our sense of ethics and social conscience, they are jobs for people who are, well, one degree short of a moral compass.

"THE eye adjusts," as fashion people say, a truism routinely exploited in defense of styles so extreme that they often affront conventional tastes.

Many of the Marines who actually knew her were incensed at what they considered an affront to her honor when they learned that dourine was an equine sexually transmitted disease.

Acts like these affect us all; they are an affront to our core values and they shake us at our very foundation.

On Monday, Simon – the acclaimed creator of The Wire – posted on his blog a short response to the riots and unrest in Baltimore in which he told those causing the trouble to "go home", that they were derailing the progress made after Gray's death and that they were "an affront to that man's memory".

But it probably would not regard the deal as a major affront, they said.

They are an affront, and were taken as such: the printer refused to print them.

"The royal charter and these acts of parliament, they are an affront.

The schlock and the camp were appealing precisely because they were an affront to pomposity and pretension.