Word: affronted
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...many have developed, sometimes with the help of psychologists, a better understanding of what led them to murderous fury--an understanding that could help others avoid such atrocities in the future. Almost all the shooters were expressing rage, either against a particular person for a particular affront or, more often, against a whole cohort of bullying classmates. Some of their stories confirm the notion that school shootings are a contagion, that the perpetrators are imitating the gross acts of carnage they've seen reported in other places. On the day that he brought to school a .25-cal. semiautomatic handgun...
...Pique Leading Republican politicians reacted angrily after the country lost its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission. "It is an affront to the whole notion of human rights," said Dick Armey, majority leader of the House of Representatives. Their ire increased when the U.S. lost its seat on another important committee, the 13-member International Narcotics Control Board. The House voted to withhold payment of $244 million in back dues the U.S. owes to the U.N. unless the country is reinstated to the human rights panel when seats are next contested...
...many have developed, sometimes with the help of psychologists, a better understanding of what led them to murderous fury--an understanding that could help others avoid such atrocities in the future. Almost all the shooters were expressing rage, either against a particular person for a particular affront or, more often, against a whole cohort of bullying classmates. Some of their stories confirm the notion that school shootings are a contagion, that the perpetrators are imitating the gross acts of carnage they've seen reported in other places. On the day that he brought to school a .25-cal. semiautomatic handgun...
...personal affront that Harvard University would think it's ok, for one second, to not pay people like [my grandmother] a living wage," Chanda S. Prescod-Weinstein '03 said...
...Well, there's always the "Too Wild for Thursday" Wednesday-night shows, which, come to think of it, are sort of an affront to the viewers' concentration. Are the Outback outtakes - the entertainment value of which Jackie Chan created and destroyed a long time ago - supposed to be better than what we've seen already? Do we have anything of Mike actually falling into the fire, instead of just yelling about it? And is this why CBS made us change our "Survivor" night this week - just to get us hooked on the slag heap? Perhaps it was merely a cruel...