Word: affrontive
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...local officials wouldn't want to tangle with Harvard Law professors over the issue. The point is, however, that the reason they would never crack down on the CRIMSON is because it doesn't deserve to be cracked down upon (a pity) but even if it did represent an affront to public mores, they wouldn't dare touch us because of the power behind...
...election of an anti-Administration slate of delegates, without O'Neill's blessing, would constitute an affront to his leadership within the District...
According to those tests a publication is obscene if the dominant themes of the material taken as a whole show purient interest in sex, affront the contemporary standards of a community and are utterly without redeeming social value...
...mother is at stake," and many clergymen broadly define health to mean social as well as physical wellbeing. Last month the nation's Episcopal bishops approved limited legal abortion "with proper safeguards against abuse." The assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association has decried abortion laws as "an affront to human life and dignity...
...there was no consistency of image because in and out of the hostile big men cavorted the small Negroes--Versailles, Tovar and Carew--who formed the infield. Throwing balls behind their backs, striking poses for their own amusement, they seemed confident but fragile. Their light-heartedness was an affront to the solemnity of the occasion, and one suspected that the confidence might split under pressure, that the fragility might lead to disaster...