Sentence examples for to affront from inspiring English sources

By Kelefa Sanneh Pop-punk is designed not to affront listeners but to gratify them.

To affront the scholarly ear, Larkin gladly struck minor, even bathetic chords.

"Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront," Kierkegaard wrote.

Like its title — a play on "skin flute," slang for penis — "Skin Fruit" seems determined to affront, disarmingly.

She is shortly to embark for Italy, with her aunt as chaperone, in order to "affront her destiny," as Henry James later characterized it.

This was chiefly because neither of the leading politicians of the day, William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli, cared to affront Queen Victoria's implacable opposition to the women's movement.

Among his ardent admirers are the Nobel literature laureate Elfriede Jelinek and John Waters, neither of them strangers to affronts to taste.

The Church was not slow to respond to such affronts.

Murder was, of course, a logical reaction to that affront.

Where is our sacrifice?" thundered Mr. Coburn, suggesting that giving jobs to veterans was an affront to American values.

"It's an obstacle to prosperity and an affront to social justice".