Word: affrontive
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...visceral reactions are not an argument for or against." This was not a girl who was ever going to grow up, he says. She was only going to grow bigger. "Some disability advocates have suggested that this course of treatment is an abuse of Ashley's ?rights' and an affront to her ?dignity.' This is a mystery to me. Is there more dignity in having to hoist a full-grown body in harness and chains from bed to bath to wheelchair? Ashley will always have the mind of an infant, and now she will able to stay where she belongs...
...second half alone—until an emphatic put-back dunk by 6’11 Vermont center Chris Holm over Cusworth gave Vermont a 65-60 lead with under six minutes to play. As he has on numerous occasions this year, however, Cusworth responded to the affront. He scored seven of the Crimson’s next nine points, including a huge tip-in off Housman’s missed runner, that allowed Harvard to pull even at 69 apiece and send the game to overtime. “He had the confidence in himself to make a play...
...front and center of Sunni politics, earning him sympathy and support even from those who have long disagreed with his political views. Most of the prominent Sunni politicians in the government - people al-Dari scorns for having collaborated with the U.S. - have denounced the warrant as an affront to the community. The two Sunni blocs in parliament have demanded the warrant be withdrawn. Adnan al-Duleimi, who leads the larger of the two groupings, has called for a formal government apology to al-Dari...
...accompanied by a “humorous” interlude involving a pizza deliveryman. It’s a surprise that they didn’t put in a laugh track. I expected Matt LeBlanc to show up. Only a Jazze Pha vocal appearance would be a greater affront to such a musical masterpiece. What a shame. —J. Samuel Abbott
...Part of the opposition must have come from sheer surprise - that political controversy would come from a group with such a friendly, chirpy name. (Dixie? Chicks!? It?s a double affront to political correctness.) And maybe they expected that the two other, older band members would disassociate themselves from Maines. Briefly, in the film, Emily has the attitude of the good student who doesn?t care to be kept after class because the bad girl mouthed off. "If anybody asks me - ?I didn?t say it. Talk to her.?" But that?s not really an option. "We?re a sisterhood...