Word: affront
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Working mothers took the ruling as a personal affront and besieged women's organizations with angry calls. But Ireland still has some legal maneuvers to pursue. Two days after winning custody of Maranda, Smith was arraigned on an assault charge against Ireland dating back to Christmas Eve 1992. Ireland claimed that Smith grabbed her shoulders, shook her and shoved her into a wall during an argument about visitation. Did Cashen take Smith's alleged domestic violence into his calculation of "family values"? When the issue came up in his court, Cashen said the charge was "not pertinent...
Separation's true climax comes early, with the children of everyone Paul took in denouncing the parents, as if their charity were a deliberate affront to the younger generation. Here Guare hilariously captures the irate solipsism of overprivileged adolescence. After that, though, he has nowhere to go, except toward liberal piety, which does not suit his rare comic gift. Still, two good acts are rare these days. It's probably ungrateful to expect more...
...Holocaust revision is a horrible affront andmockery to the millions who perished in World WarII," said Jeremy A. Dauber '95, chair of thecoordinating of council of the Harvard-RadcliffeHillel
...over which he presides has the disheveled camaraderie of a fraternity house in the throes of creating its homecoming float, and Carville has the air of the bright kid who doesn't quite fit in socially but whose talents cannot be denied. His language, dress and diet are an affront to mothers everywhere, and he often gropes when obliged to search out the right word for an ad or a statement to the press. He is also smart to the point of cynicism, and there are times when there is something almost vulpine in his manner: his eyes are preternaturally...
...category consists of either Bruce Lee-types who only know how to karate-chop their way through life, or Chinatown gangsters like those in the film, "Year of the Dragon." It seems that without kung-fu or a gun, we are a race of half-men who are an affront to masculinity...