Sentence examples for to the affront of from inspiring English sources
This suggests that a fundamental change in Europe's direction rests on some explosion from below: the anger of unemployed youth boiling over in the streets, occupations by desperate workers of workplaces and public spaces that are more than symbolic, direct challenges to the affront of banks to democratic governance.
(In a cell-phone video circulating online this morning, he voices the opinion that their elders should have been gassed by Hitler, if only to spare the world the affront of their ugliness).
It was going to take the entire evening to construct this newest affront of the ruling Chinese regime and thousands of people were going to spend the night watching.
Perhaps these readers were a little over-sensitive to the possibility of insult or affront.
So she was excited by the affront to conventional standards of domesticity that Sartre's arrangement posed.
It's an affront to the power of the imagination.
It is an affront to the citizens of this country".
On Monday, Mr. Hanna changed course, calling the project "an affront to the victims of 9/11".
The National Council of Churches called it "an affront to the conscience of the American people".
But the timing is an affront to the victims of 9/11".
