Word: affrontive
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...felt he was not romantic enough for the role. Shortly afterwards, she apparently changed her mind because she decided to marry him. She puts him up in her elegant home overlooking the bay and gives him plenty of pocket money, but Palance is still brooding over her professional affront to him. With the help of an old flame (Gloria Grahame), he decides to eliminate Joan so that he can inherit her money-and presumably finance a stage production in which he will-play the romantic lead...
...five months later, when Barkley was getting ready to nominate Roosevelt for a fourth term at the Democratic Convention, Barkley got the news that Roosevelt had passed him over as a candidate for Vice President in favor of Harry Truman. This was a personal hurt, but not an affront to the party, so Barkley pulled himself together and made the hall echo with his eulogy of the Chief...
...This affront to the boss sent a chill through the regular Democrats, who were already cool toward Kefauver. Truman pointedly observed that Kefauver is a good Senator and he likes to see good Senators in the Senate...
...situation ran toward disaster, Grady lumbered persistently between the stiff-necked British and the sagging iron cot of Iran's Premier Mossadeq. "He loves me," said Grady. To all who would listen, he complained that Washington had let him down. The Harriman mission was the final affront which Harriman compounded by refusing to let him see cables from Washington on the ground that they were "too secret." ¶ Loy Henderson, 59, Ambassador to India since 1948, to replace Grady in Iran. One of State's ablest career diplomats, Henderson was the best the U.S. could find...
...ARROGANT AND CONTEMPTUOUS AFFRONT TO THE SENSIBILITIES OF CONGENIAL AMERICANS . . . DESTROY MY ADDRESS PLATE...