Word: affrontive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...each other raw, arguing, smoking, drinking, anecdoting their lives away. The scenarios, rambling and aphoristic, could have been scrawled on napkins; their emotions were spiked with absinthe. Films poured out of Godard, two or three a year, and each was an incendiary device--an event for his admirers, an affront to the cinematic status quo. Andrew Sarris called him "the analytical conscience of the modern cinema." Because of Godard, it seemed, movies would never be the same...
...this pressure is still a moderating force today. Yet, Emerson still attempted to articulate a philosophy of radical autonomy. Aspects of his vision remain meaningful, especially his declaration of hope for the future: "I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency... Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times...
...office of the president is part of a long tradition," Appelbaum said yesterday. "I can't think of a greater affront to that tradition than the thought of two men getting their union sanctified in Memorial Church...
Your report was an affront to decency in general and the troubled family unit in particular. Amid a world in chaos, as America's moral fiber continues to fray and its societal underbelly softens, you place on your cover a glorification of unnatural sexual behavior. Shame on you, TIME! JACK E. SHULER Londonderry, New Hampshire...
...outright Cliffs Notes from the University Shop is an affront to the diverse student population that university officials claim to support...