Word: affrontive
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...Meese record on Constitutional interpretation, Dean of the K-School, Graham T. Allison '62's announcement of the award came as a shock and an unwelcome surprise. But it's been done; the award has been offered. And unless the K-School and Allison are willing to gravely affront the Reagan Administration, the award will likely fall into Meese's hands in May, while protesters picket outside and distinguished professors either boycott the ceremony or voice questions about the Attorney General's competence...
...nation's machismo had been shattered, its technological manhood exploded in a terminal affront to complacent expectations. And so, to ease the shock, we grieved over the loss of seven new heroes. Their sudden demise, and most of all the dramatic irony of the nation's first civilian space passenger just going along for a routine ride, triggered mass catharsis...
PRACTICALLY NO OTHER issue confronting a University or community suffers such a wild problem of relativity. What one woman views as harassment another views as a simple joke that anyone should be able to shrug off. What one man views as gallant, another woman views as an affront. Nevertheless clear trespasses occur, as well as graver incidents. Trying to deal with sexual harassment is trying to teach a large group of people sensitivity to nuances and facets of human behavior that to various people are inconceivable, silly, overly sensitive, or a matter of human dignity...
Several French newspapers have contended that Hernu's real worry is that the work, which depicts the officer standing at the ready, his sword broken to symbolize injustice, might be viewed as an affront to the army that accused Dreyfus. The affair continues...
...itself against a whole tradition of animal as heroic metaphor. And for those who (understandably) yearned for a return to the French pictorial tradition of luxe, calme et volupte, the sight of Dubuffet's monstrous kippered nudes squashed flat in their beds of pigment was not only an affront, it was like the slamming of a door on a much loved tradition. Such Dubuffets were shocking in a way that no Picassos, by the mid-'50s, could possibly have been...