Sentences with phrase «affront from»

Just when it seemed that contemporary artists had wrung the last aesthetic surprise and audience affront from the century - old genre of junk assemblage, along comes Barlow with things unforeseen.

Not exact matches

(Here's Benjamin Franklin on the subject back in 1749: «If customers slight your goods... do not affront them: do not be pert in your answers, but with patience hear, and with meekness give an answer; for if you affront in a small matter, it may probably hinder you from a future good customer.»)

While the American people clash on issues ranging from guns to taxes, what Comey sees as Trump's lapses in character and integrity are an affront members of all political parties, he said.

The very existence of the Jewish people as a religious community separate from Christianity was regarded as a fundamental affront to the new religious community with whom Cod had now made his permanent covenant.

The very activity of preaching — the proclamation of a story that can not be known apart from such proclamation — is an affront to the ethos of freedom.

Orthodox Jews have been expelled from the military for wearing yarmulkes; a religious community in which all members worked for the church and believed that acceptance of wages would be an affront to God has been forced to yield to the minimum wage; religious colleges have been denied tax exemptions for enforcing what they regard to be religiously compelled moral regulations; Amish farmers who refuse Social Security benefits have been forced to pay Social Security taxes; and Muslim prisoners have been denied the right to challenge prison regulations that conflict with their worship schedule.

Yet this touches on what makes Ezekiel a prophet to begin with; he forces us to question whether our discomfort over God's judgment comes not so much from fear of taking sides, or of being found on the wrong side, but from feeling affronted.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

One of the major causes of social conservatism is the fact that churches, schools, and other social institutions are so largely influenced by persons whose advantage it is to preserve the status quo and who are prone to regard any departure from it as an affront to Christian morality.

The negative goals liberals pursue can be summarized under the heading of the avoidance of evil: to protect the liberty of individuals from «dictatorship, torture, poverty, intolerance, repression, discrimination, lawlessness,» and other affronts to human dignity.

Such an affront, he argues, came in the past as it comes now from that brash and unbaptized libeler of human reason the perennial harlequin, the votary of the ridiculous, the extravagant, the «fanciful.»

I get where you are coming from though, I read about metal axe heads floating on water, shadows moving while the sun is not, men running faster than horses and fifty armed soldiers falling dead when they come against one of Gods prophets, it goes on and on, an outrageous affront to any human intelligence, I mean come on!!

I also remember discovering during one Easter vigil the almost physical distress of some Eastern Rite Palestinians among us who, as refugees driven from their homeland, were affronted by our incessant imagery of the people of Israel despoiling the Egyptians, and seizing vines and trees they never planted and cisterns others had dug.

Poverty, far from being sanctioned by God, is a scandalous affront to a loving God.

Many have advised me to distance myself from him implying that my acknowledgement of him may be an affront to my character, accountability and integrity.

The cord running through Western theology, from Ambrose to Anselm and beyond, that only the violent sacrifice of a perfect and sinless Jesus could appease a God whose honor has been affronted and whose anger has been aroused is, as Michael Welker says, «nothing less than destructive of faith.»

The inquisition, The crusades («murderers bearing crosses» as Peter Beagle puts it), the enslavery of millions of indigenous people, the widespread teaching in parochial schools everywhere of the «perfidy» of the Jews, and uncounted other affronts to human civilization.And a billion people, many starving while the church enjoys incredible wealth, froth at the mouth and bleed from the eyeballs with maniacal love for the pope.

Thompson postulates that Marley's original fans and supporters came to feel personally affronted by his international fame as it separated him from his Rastafarian principles.

And more generally it removes legitimacy from a programe which stands as an affront to British values.

While it would hardly benefit from a trade war with the US, China may now view such castigation as unacceptable given its increasing world status and take this slight as a diplomatic affront and would probably feel forced to retaliate.

Robert Zimmerman, a Democratic National committeeman from Great Neck, called Maragos» candidacy «an affront to the principles and standards of the Democratic Party.

Joining a rally with de Blasio and other NYC leaders, Timothy Cardinal Dolan called Trump's move to strip protections from young immigrants Tuesday as an affront to Christian and American values.

He finds the attention the media gives him an affront rather than an opportunity, he ignores collective responsibility, at the time when his leadership was under maximum pressure from his own MPs, he attended a Cuba Solidarity Campaign event in preference to meeting the PLP.

A plan by Islamic leaders to build a mosque and cultural center on private land two blocks from where the World Trade Center twin towers were attacked September 11, 2001 has been strongly opposed by those who say it would be an affront to the memories of those who died at ground zero that day.

But our love of dolphins might not be enough to save them from extinction brought on by overfishing, pollution, climate change and other environmental affronts perpetrated by humans.

This shift from the ordinary is like a personal affront, like being accosted, and we may feel violated and resentful.

We're not going to spoil the moment here, especially as much of its effect comes from having not expected it, but there's another sex - related scene involving Eggsy in a compromising situation - and one that's considerably more affronting and graphic.

Perhaps it's a measure of the esteem in which his canonical performances are held that his recent work elicits such an affronted sense of indignation from even the most casual moviegoer.

With Brendan Gleeson as patriarch Colby and Michael Fassbender as the troubled heir to his travellers» caravan throne, the tone is country miles from David Jason's bucolic idyll, which the Cutlers affront at every turn.

Aside from George's sudden affront to Dr. Lang's well - being and marriage, back home the raccoons still aren't letting up.

From explorations of institutional injustice to experiences of personal affront, poems that are politically charged or infused with righteous anger are sometimes swiftly shared among frustrated peers.

He brought his water glass to his lips and watched her face transition from brief, affronted shock, to humor, to something seductive and willing.

The first time your service dog growls at you when you try to take something away from him, you feel shocked and affronted.

Though it's unclear that in fact the stairway installation that runs all the way from Grabner's fourth floor down to Anthony Elms's second was selected by Elms, it is a very pleasant surprise after the amalgamated affront that must be tackled on the fourth floor.

Leslie's artist / writer collaborative magazine The Hasty Papers, 1960, which included contributions from John Ashbery, Jean Genet, Jack Kerouac, Alice Neel, and others, was a creative affront to the art world's emphasis on discipline specificity.

Mr. Zwirner agreed to keep the sale confidential, according to the suit, because the sale would be something of an affront to the artist and might prevent Mr. Robbins from gaining access to her other works.Continue Reading

Mr. Zwirner agreed to keep the sale confidential, according to the suit, because the sale would be something of an affront to the artist and might prevent Mr. Robbins from gaining access to her other works.

Her iconic Centrefold (1974), a full - page advertisement taken out in Artforum, depicts a naked Benglis posed like a pin - up girl, clutching a large dildo emerging from her crotch — both an affront to the gender hierarchy of the art world and an act of radical self - empowerment.

From his sinister sculpture of Michael Jackson and Bubbles to his pornographic self - portrait with his then - wife Cicciolina, Koons has the power to affront.

Because so much of the exhibition lies in the realm of sci - fi, it's bound to perplex at least a good chunk of visitors — and people are already comparing it to Elisabeth Sussman's fabled, notorious 1993 Whitney Biennial, which served up an bracing dose of identity politics to an unprepared audience and drew an affronted response from critics hoping for safer fare.

Their efforts to force us to bury our wealth by «carbon sequestration» is abominable stewardship, an affront against Heaven, and steals resources from the poor.

Grijalva's probe has drawn fire in recent days from critics who call it an affront to academic freedom, and the request for communications has been one of the focal points.

Second, the chambers judge had found that if Unifor was ultimately successful in the arbitration, the impact on the privacy and dignity rights of the employees could not be remedied; in the absence of the continuance of the injunction the Unifor employees would suffer irreparable harm from the non-consensual taking of bodily fluids, which is a substantial affront to individuals» privacy, security and bodily integrity (citing Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, Local 707 v. Suncor Energy Inc, 2012 ABCA 373 (CanLII) at para 5)(Unifor, ABCA 2018 at para 12).

As one 1968 brochure from the national association noted, «Requiring a property owner to enter into a contract with one not of his choice is an affront to the American tradition of freedom of contract.»