Word: affronted
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...couple of hundred million dollars ago. The company has strengths galore: fine products, solid licensing revenue, a strong share in established markets. And it has something nobody else does: a visionary, driven CEO with his name on the door, who takes the declining share price as a personal affront. "I was 6 ft. 6 in. when this started," he jokes, stretching his 5-ft. 6-in. frame out of the chair. "I've led this company, and I've done it my own way for years and years. I've built something here, and I've got a lot more...
...witness the director of the Program in Ethics and the Professions depreciate the importance of fundamental norms of fair process. And it is false and insulting for Prof. Thompson to suggest that asking Harvard to respect its own procedures and the worthy principles embodied in them presents an affront to him or his colleagues...
Until he was finally hit by the I.R.A. (to him, just more authority to affront), he was equally capable of cheekily parking on a police-station bench all night to give himself an alibi, or of crucifying a suspected informer on a pool table. Happily married, he kept his wife's sister as a mistress and sired children with both women. In this admittedly fictionalized retelling, his other reliable relationship is with an implacably pursuing detective (superbly underplayed by Jon Voight) who hates himself for succumbing to a psychopath's irresistible charm...
...strikes me as odd that this group has been silent about the terrible sin of twig-picking, for which the Bible mandates exactly the same punishment as that for homosexuality. Never have I heard a word from them about this great affront...
...Jeanne recalls, "but the next time I saw him I just said, 'So when are you going to take me out,' because I liked him and I was a huge flirt freshman year." While Brian doesn't remember Jeanne's racy behavior because, according to Jeanne, "it was an affront to his masculinity," he still called her to take her out to "Evita" for their second date (and his second time seeing the movie). After watching the movie, which neither liked, Jeanne asked Brian why he had taken her since had disliked it the first time. Brian replies, cuddling closer...