Word: affrontive
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...Krol. "When it comes to speaking about the doctrine of the church, we are not free to make up our own minds," says Archbishop John May of St. Louis. "For a sister or priest to deny the teaching of the church is a scandal . . . a flagrant, flashy and deliberate affront...
...look at the medical evidence. And as citizens of this land, all you have to go look to are our founding documents and you see that the notion of the wanton taking of innocent human late, from conception to nine months is first and abysmal affront to a moral conscience...
...persuade him (and the Committee on College Life) that the Clubs must go. My own preference is similar to Stevens', but I don't think our view should be imposed on the Clubs failing a demonstration of the damage they do. If the only harm is that their practices affront us (albeit "us" a vast majority) that's insufficient reason to restrict them. Stevens' only reference to my argument is that the Clubs do little harm is to say he's disinclined to agree they are "not central to the College." Having been here for 27 years and still scarcely...
...Foreign Minister was sufficiently incensed by their action to cancel abruptly and angrily his appearance at the U.N. Not even an offer by Washington to allow his craft to put down at a U.S. military airfield could persuade Gromyko to overlook what he clearly regarded as an officially tolerated affront to Soviet dignity. In subsequent months, he demonstrated, by words and attitude, his own displeasure with...
...articles of impeachment, the list is not very impressive. In fact, what most placed her in political jeopardy was not anything she did but something she said she would not do-namely, release her husband's tax returns. It was this affront to post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing, that turned the flap into a furor...