Sentences with phrase «direct affront»
The phrase "direct affront" means a deliberate action or statement intended to insult or offend someone directly. Full definition
«A more direct affront to state sovereignty is not easy to imagine.»
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Also, many of them sized the servants of the king to beat them and kill them, which was a direct affront to his honor.
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.
The conduct of Parliament in Iceland is seen by many as a direct affront to democracy.
Or does he agree with the vast majority of Americans that the construction of this project at its current site it a direct affront to the memories of those who perished on 9/11?»
It can sometimes feel like student misbehavior is a direct affront to us personally, causing us to let our feelings affect how we respond to students.
Apple just unveiled its plans for iAd, a mobile advertising platform connected to the iPhone — a direct affront on Google's bread and butter industry.
The combination of the semi-mechanized process, the non-painterly style, and the commercial subject initially caused offense, as the work's blatantly mundane commercialism represented a direct affront to the technique and philosophy of Abstract expressionism.