Word: affront
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...their suddenness, their enormity and their surprise. But everyday the world is plagued by more mundane battles, fought not with high technology but with hands and fists and stones. Genocide in Rwanda. Civil strife in the Congo. Ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. These events were just as much an affront to justice as were the events of Sept. 11. And thus, by the rhetoric of an attack on American values anywhere being an attack on security everywhere, they should have warranted a meaningful U.S. response...
...sort of disillusioned political outgrowth from lower-class neighborhoods, influenced by old-school rock n’ roll as well as reggae. Offshoots included ska, and later oi, music. American punk, taking its cue almost directly from the British punk sound and attitude, was formulated as a direct affront to the overly commercial arena rock scene of the preceding decade. Since that time, on either side of the Atlantic, punk has been an institution more than a musical genre—it’s a way of thinking and a way of living, a wholly integrated worldview. At heart...
...been hanging oppressively in air for a band whose musical roots include punk and brit-pop. Such a noble rock lineage evokes memories of music’s halcyon days where songs were not a product nor a soundtrack for a car commercial, but rather signified subversion and an affront to the establishment. Arguably, that time never existed and the Strokes are simply a cleverly marketed band that have struck a chord with music critics disaffected with the cookie-cutter teen sensations and the eviscerating rap-rock fusion. Still, responsibility for the promotional hyperbole lies not on the shoulders...
...Arabs personally loyal to bin Laden. If the two attacks were indeed linked it seems more likely they came as a furious double-barreled blast at bin Laden's principal enemies: the man stubbornly resisting his Taliban protectors, and the superpower he sees as an intolerable affront to his twisted?and by no means typically Islamic?fundamentalist vision...
...hostile tanks lined up on both sides, television crews mounting cameras under the menacing muzzels to show the world this latest indignity. As a reporter rounding up opinion back in Washington, I can recall the sense of real fear among many of the experts. Should we allow such an affront to humankind to stand? Should there be a showdown between East and West right then...