Word: affront
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...easy manner and started taking big puffs." Then, continued the Prince, "he started reading to me a note on a piece of old paper." The message: Sihanouk, stay home. The Soviet leaders were too busy to receive him on the appointed Nov. 7 date. "An absolutely inexcusable and irreparable affront," huffed Sihanouk, threatening to sever diplomatic relations with the Soviets...
Never on Sunday. Advertising on TV has achieved this growth despite the opposition of people who feel that it gives too much direct influence to the advertiser and of those who, like many of the British, consider it an esthetic affront. It has also been harnessed by numerous restrictions. Belgium, Holland and the three Scandinavian countries still ban all TV commercials. Even in those countries that allow it, the typical TV ad is decidedly soft-sell, is aired only at certain times at night; in Switzerland, TV ads are never shown on Sunday...
...bored lover, Mastroianni is superb, now freezing almost imperceptibly over some affront to his fairly rigid erotic code, now quivering with gleeful, guilty passion as he catches a scent of danger. But his solid performance is wasted in fleshing out a hollow comic premise. In the end, Casanova collapses into palaver about murder and morals in a frantic courtroom scene-the customary last stop for a comedy that has lost its case...
...venial sifts against the language seem to amuse rather than affront him. Under ROOFTOP, he complains mildly: "What would a rooftop be, anyway? Use housetop or just plain roof." He quotes a recipe. "Now throw in two tablespoons full of chopped parsley and cook ten minutes more. The quail ought to be tender by then." Then Bernstein makes his point: "Never mind the quail, how are we ever going to get those tablespoons tender? The word is tablespoonfuls, no matter how illogical it seems...
...needs an enemy so badly that the nearest friend will do. His true target in these plays is the well-intentioned liberal intellectual with namby-pamby notions of cozy, overnight, instant brotherhood. The Toilet's depiction of Negroes as semi-cretinous urban cannibals is calculated to affront precisely those white racial ameliorators who passionately argue that Negroes are not like that...