Word: affrontive
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...patriotism and though we may cloak this distaste in the contemporary persuasive cloth of gay rights, our true military aversion runs much deeper than that. The hierarchy, order and discipline necessary to maintain the military threaten our coveted sense of individuality; the brute spectacle of war comes as an affront to the practice of reasoned discourse that we strive so seriously to perfect. War as a whole might be avoided, we muse in the academic comfort of a seminar room, if only everyone would read Habermas...
...sort of machine that even a Luddite can love. You slide in a card, punch a few digits, and out spurts cash. It's so simple and elegant that-well, it's an affront to a dynamic capitalist society. And it's all about to change. Someday soon, when you just want to score five Andrew Jacksons so you can have dinner at that great little place that doesn't take Visa, you could find yourself in a very slow line behind people sending flowers to Mom or arguing over which seats to buy for the next Disney...
...still blocked by Islamic opposition. His efforts to bring the kingdom into the World Trade Organization, for example, could help create jobs, and unemployment is 15%. But the obstacles to membership include the country's lack of appropriate commercial and insurance laws. Islamic traditionalists regard such laws as an affront to Shari'a, the rules of life that, according to Muslim tradition, were handed down...
...opposition. His efforts to bring the Kingdom into the World Trade Organization, for example, could help create jobs - unemployment is 15%. But the obstacles to membership include the country's slow progress in enacting commercial and insurance laws over the objections of Islamic traditionalists, who regard them as an affront to Shari'a, the rules of life handed down...
...plaintively asking WHY DO THEY HATE US? The feeling that we might be responsible for the hatred directed against us suggested that we should perhaps seek to assuage and placate. But there is no assuaging those who see your very existence as a denial of the faith and an affront to God. There is no placating those who offer you the choice of conversion or death...