«A more direct affront to state sovereignty is not easy to imagine.» (courant.com)
Also, many of them sized the servants of the king to beat them and kill them, which was a direct affront to his honor. (redeeminggod.com)
His message was a direct affront to the religionists of his time, for he spoke simply of God being available to everyone and of demanding only one thing, that people love God and one another as God loves them. (religion-online.org)