Sentence examples for were actually insulted from inspiring English sources

They were actually insulted.

There are only a few films a year I'm actually insulted by.

American voters are actually insulted when Democrats pass bill after bill to put America back on track, because of the lack of bipartisanship.

So these cries of "liberal" and "left wing" that John McCain and his below-average vice presidential comrade Sarah Palin have thrust at Barack Obama are actually insults against the majority of Americans.

There are some compliments which you might perceive as being flattering but are actually insults.

"They're really insulted.

Now, I was really insulted.

(Note how this statement is actually three insults squeezed into one; what did Wim Wenders do to get so brutally Kakutanied along with DeLillo?) Certain observers resented Kakutani for resisting "I," a preference that became more noticeable as the chatty, confessional informality of Internet writing started to change the tone of criticism in the early aughts.

Putting talent next to monitors is actually an insult to the newsreader - it says they can't own a close-up.

Prideful Russia, we have come to see, is actually a wound, an "insulted and injured country".

which is actually a double insult — both praise for Keynes and the suggestion that one should rethink one's views in the face of experience, which are both anathema to the Ryanoids.