Word: affrontive
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...goodbye with her firm handshake. She explained, with pointed good humor, that she was about to go riding?"so that you two can talk alone." I guessed that my request for a private meeting with her husband had caused a misunderstanding, but there was no chance to repair the affront. Mrs. Reagan mounted her horse and cantered away...
...kind of conservative (usually called cultural conservative) on the one hand and civil libertarians on the other. The argument went like this. The conservative gave the intuitive case against pornography based on an overriding concern for, it now sounds almost too quaint to say, public morality. Pornography is an affront to decency; it coarsens society. As Susan Sontag, not a conservative, writing in defense of pornography says, it serves to "drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and one's existence as a sexual being." The ordinary person, of course, does not need...
...point about three quarters of the way through the play, the audience is shaken out of an absorbing drama and thrown into a high-tech world of blinding light and blasting, raucous music. An attempt by Rick Reynolds to sing is lost in the overwhelming visual effect and affront of the staging...
This practice, in the face of previous protest, impresses me as a flagrant affront to the feelings of our people. If it be your desire to alienate and force from your ranks such readers of TIME as hail from the South, you are pursuing a most effectual course...
...fictional families who do battle through the centuries against the country's successive despoilers. Each family represents a different stratum of society. The Lubonskis are nobles, the Bukowskis are members of the gentry, and the Buks are peasants. To keep the scions of these families rushing forth to affront Cossacks in 1648 and Germans in 1939, Michener has had to rely on a series of coincidences that strain credulity as each new era unfolds...