Word: affront
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...exams. Most professors seem to give them out of pure laziness and pedagogical inertia rather than actually to test students' knowledge of the course material in any meaningful way. In the process, they force us to master a particular mode of communication--the exam answer--that is an ugly affront to written language...
...Worse than anything else, on many of these tracks the band simply seems lazy, as if they have little left to say and less inclination to bother to try. In the title track, Young's lyrics are an affront to the man's talent and achievements, with clichs such as, "Looking forward all that I can see/is good things happening to you and me." One wonders if Young is actually "looking forward" or if he is merely asleep at the wheel. This is not to imply that there is nothing to recommend Looking Forward. Young's guitar work alone...
...students at Harvard--and even to the author himself--the arguments at the core of For Common Things lend support to local community efforts like the living wage campaign. These projects are "earnest," "responsible" and "honest"--a direct affront to the ironic spirit...
...took this as quite an affront that they'd attempt to legislate against us without representation," Conrad said...
...offer have condemned it as a sign to the rest of the world that the United States is soft on terrorism, mocked it as a political ploy designed to win Puerto Rican votes in Hillary Rodham Clinton's upcoming Senate run in New York and labeled it an affront to the integrity of the American justice system. Meanwhile, many supporters of clemency were displeased with the conditions attached to it, which they considered excessive, and angered by Hillary Clinton's subsequent public statement that she believed the offer should be rescinded...