Word: affronted
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...court's ruling is misleading because it implies the city ordinance sidesteps any normative judgement on the content of the expression. In reality, the ban is an across-the-board affront to basic free speech principles. If nude dancing at adult establishments did indeed lead to higher crime rates or severe property devaluation, the city could have used a number of non-speech related means to control the effects. Certain zoning laws might allow for more efficient law enforcement and could limit the extent to which the surrounding property is devalued. Instead, as Justice Stevens wrote, "the City of Erie...
...Miami's Cuban-American leaders, welcoming Castro's artists is a worse affront. "To people who've been tortured in his jails, it's an insult to allow Cuban propaganda here," says Miami-Dade County Commissioner Pedro Reboredo...
...McCain doesn't believe Bush directed those attacks, the Governor's silence about them was as wounding as if he had. In New York the Bush campaign aired a radio ad that selectively picked from McCain's record to attack him as an opponent of breast-cancer research, an affront made worse by the Texas Governor's seemingly callous response when he was told that McCain's sister had suffered from the disease. "John got pretty worked over by these boys," says Senator Chuck Hagel, a McCain supporter and intermediary between the two camps. "That poison and bitterness and anger...
...office space is part of a larger move to centralize the Institute around Radcliffe Yard. The Admissions and Financial Aid Office is expected to vacate Byerly Hall in 2006 and Harvard's official guarantee of access to Agassiz expires in 2004. What graduate students may see as a personal affront is merely the necessary conversion of Radcliffe's space to fit the Institute's needs. Extraneous and unaffiliated users of Radcliffe's space hinder the new Institute's mission to become a center for advanced study...
...serve as an affront to more purposeful lives. The most engaging character on the 1950s sitcom My Little Margie was the boyfriend, Freddie, whose job consisted of spending the day looking at construction sites. My favorite scene in Catcher in the Rye occurs when Holden is in his public-speaking class. The teacher orders the students to yell out the word digression! whenever a speech loses focus or direction. Holden is, of course, a living digression...