Word: affront
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...nature, the film speaks for itself—and it speaks loudly, passionately, and presciently. The job of a comedian is to attack sensitive issues in society in a way that both innocently mocks and pointedly slanders. Maher succeeds, probing into old wounds that refuse to heal. An anthropological affront, “Religulous” reminds us that religion looks a lot like mental illness, and even more like a blind call to an archaic battle...
...filmmaking is that we are encouraged to feel superior to the characters we are watching, but are not given any special justification for our misanthropy. There was nearly always something ugly, careless and unfelt about the way Altman struck his superior poses. An imitation of that style is an affront no one needs...
...fact of the matter is once a female decides it's over with another female, it's like an end-stage marriage. No matter how seemingly benign, every attribute becomes an affront: the hair, the voice, the husband, the moose-shooting, the glasses, the big family, the making rape victims pay for their own rape test kits...
Make no mistake; refusing a Harvard education to private-school students is a radical idea. Still, Harvard should ponder such a drastic measure, not as an affront to private schools but as a promotion of public education...
...Fernandez would even need his cash when she held a more than 20-point lead in voter polls leading up to last October's election, which she won handily. When the campaign contribution allegation was made shortly after her inauguration, she took it as a Yanqui affront to her own government and angrily called the case a "garbage operation." The Casa Rosada, the Argentine presidential palace, insists instead that the U.S. should extradite Antonini to Argentina...