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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.
An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself
Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
Every aspect of Obamacare is an affront to the very founding of this country.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental principle of individual liberty.
The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.
It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.
The biggest affront to any audience is if you feel like someone took something you love and is selling it out.
Change' - Obama's election mantra - is a direct, in-your-face affront to the very vision of our Founding Fathers.
I cannot bear assaults of any kind, and it seems to me that the Beatles essentially were out to affront and to assault.
Modern slavery is a barbaric crime. Each and every case is a both a tragedy and an affront to our values of decency and kindness.
The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American, and a threat to every private sector job in this country.
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
If you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. You're not really honoring the life.
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
Torture and other forms of cruel or humiliating treatment are an affront to humanity, and the physical and psychological scars can last a lifetime.
Wall Street has been beset with problems. The cycle of greed and personal aggrandizement and lifestyle grandstanding is an affront to any American.
With so much of music blurring the lines between ersatz and authenticity, at least the 'Rock Band' game is a tribute to rock rather than an affront.
He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.
The issues we hear Donald Trump talking about are just so contrary to who we are as a people. They are an affront and an insult to our higher angels and our best selves.
Perjury before Congress is perjury to the American people and an affront to the fundamental principles of our republic and the rule of law. Such behavior cannot be tolerated.
Terrorist groups share an agenda of authoritarianism, misogyny, and intolerance. They are an affront to the common values encapsulated in the U.N. Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.
Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.
Any staffing changes that disproportionately cut the number of African Americans at CNN - intentionally or otherwise - are an affront to the African American journalism community and to the African American community as a whole.
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
As editor, I think we need to act more decisively on what kind of material appears on the 'Guardian'. Those who argue that this is an affront to freedom of speech miss the point. That freedom counts for little if it is used to silence others.
I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.
The Obama administration's EPA ruling to cut carbon emissions at power plants is a direct affront to workers in states like Alabama, which not only rely upon coal-fired plants to generate most of their electricity but are also home to thousands of coal industry jobs.
If you have a big splash of ecstasy in your life every day you are going to teach students something finer than "buy low/sell high". Maybe you'll teach them, not by what you say but by who you are, to live their lives as a standing affront to the ravaging mercantile mentality.
By the same token, the new and stringent Ultramontanism on the Catholic Left - in which even the mildest questions about how things are working in this pontificate are denounced as treasonous disloyalty - is an affront to the open conversation for which the pope [FRANCIS] has called.
If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.