Word: affront
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...worse, this paranoid box-ticking is an affront to the fact that student groups augment, not corrupt, the Harvard name. Legally the name Harvard belongs to the President and Fellows. But without the faculty, students, and sub-agencies of the College cooperating in the Harvard project, it is hard to imagine that the name would be worth very much at all. We students are among the people who vest value in the Harvard name in the first place. It is an insult to assert that we have no right to its use, and that the very name...
...Michigan Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat and chair of the House Judiciary committee, regarded Miers' no-show as an affront when he asked, "Are Congressional subpoenas to be honored, or are they optional?" His was one of the morning's calmer statements, with Utah Rep. Chris Cannon, the ranking Republican member, calling the entire investigation a "preposterous, prefabricated, partisan scam" and Rep. Stephen Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat, calling for a contempt citation, saying "What we've got here is an empty chair. That's as contemptuous as anybody can be of the government...
...their first official dinner, Jefferson, no friend of the Crown, determined to insult them. He not only invited their French counterparts, though the two countries were at war, but also escorted Dolley Madison, rather than Mrs. Merry, to the dinner table. The ambassador's personal secretary claimed that the affront caused the War of 1812. Though that's a stretch, "the Merry Affair" certainly contributed to the continued bad blood between the young U.S. and the former mother country...
...ideas of High Modernism developed in Europe between the wars, it consisted of floor-to-ceiling glass on all four sides, which was supported by eight steel piers on a brick platform. Not so much a house as the Platonic ideal of a house, it was also an affront to ordinary notions of domesticity and creaturely comfort, and this at a time when not many office buildings, much less country retreats, had adopted the glass-box look. Johnson's only concession to privacy was a tall brick cylinder set indoors that contained a bathroom. To avoid disturbing the immaculate planes...
...defense systems are marginal at best. And the most optimistic projections put deployment in Europe more than five years away. Yet if that should reassure Putin, it hasn't. He and the Russians see the deployment as both a potential future threat to their missile arsenal and as an affront to their national security akin to the American view of Khrushchev's deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba in the early 1960s. So if the systems, which aren't even ready yet, are causing so much agitation in Russia, why is the Administration pushing as hard...