Word: affrontive
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...after a century of watching the Yankees club America's small-market teams like baby seals and tigers and red sox, you have to suffer during the off-season too. In the biggest moral affront yet to your sense of fairness, last week the Yankees--already the richest, best team in baseball--traded for Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod)--the richest, best player in baseball. The Yankees now have a slightly better lineup than the National League All-Star team, one of whose members will undoubtedly be the Yankees' second baseman by the play-offs...
...after a century of watching the Yankees club America's small-market teams like baby seals and tigers and red sox, you have to suffer during the off-season too. In the biggest moral affront yet to your sense of fairness, last week the Yankees - already the richest, best team in baseball - traded for Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod) - the richest, best player in baseball. The Yankees now have a slightly better lineup than the National League All-Star team, one of whose members will undoubtedly be the Yankees' second baseman by the play-offs...
...fish are the Cabot House symbol, so when we found out about Kirkland’s actions, we were forced to take the entire fiasco as an obvious affront to our House and all that it stands for,” they wrote in an e-mail...
...should not openly recognize religious differences between its students. Preserving secular principles requires that religious affiliations be expressed only outside the context of the republic and its schools. Wearing ostentatious religious symbols while representing the nation as a public servant or by receiving taxpayer-funded public education is an affront to French values. One need not necessarily share those values in order to concede that France is entitled to protect them. Admittedly, this policy is not only about France’s eighteenth-century republican ideals, but also about the contemporary challenges to those ideals. While the law?...
They called her the Asian Madonna because, in the ultra-staid world of Hong Kong pop music, her boldness was not just a sensation but an affront. If Madonna was the Material Girl, Anita Mui Yim-fong was the Bad Girl. That was the title of her 1985 hit song (which was briefly banned from radio for its raunchy lyrics) and best-selling album. In concert, Mui was a strutting, scowling presence, exuding sexuality like a visual and aural musk. She didn't simply command the stage; she commandeered it. She set attendance records with concert series...