Word: affrontive
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This latest affront to the nation underscores what has been the president's most important problem in the life of this scandal. He seems to think that he lives above the rules. The president's most honest moment of the last nine months might just have been his Aug. 17 speech, in which his "How dare you invade my privacy?" attitude was on full display...
...seems to me that the family (father, mother and children) is the base unit of our and nearly every society; the essence of civilization. Lesbians are an affront to everything that is sane and orderly...
...repudiation of our most cherished standards of reality ini- tially seems childishly reactionary, it is soonclear that her apparent inability to tell "truthfrom truth" is really a gift for discerning atruer truth as defined by her freely determinedindividual standards. At first, this rejection ofgenerally shared values seems an affront to thereader. Harlan's rejection of convention quicklybecomes understandable, though, as the narrativemakes clear that the common definitions of trueand untrue, right and wrong have only ever beenused to imprison her, conventions that define heras wrong and prevent her from constructing anidentity of her own so that she might be moreeasily...
...sensibilities of our people by the discontinuance of your practice of referring to the colored man as "mister." I was deeply grieved, therefore, to find two new instances of this kind in your Sept. 7 issue. This practice, in the face of previous protest, impresses me as a flagrant affront to the feelings of our people. If it be your desire to alienate and force from your ranks such readers of TIME as hail from the South, you are pursuing a most effectual course. BARLOW HENDERSON Aiken...
Before he continues to threaten players with facial rearrangement, complain about the refs, or affront the rules of grammar, he needs to get in the gym and shoot some free throws...