Sentences with phrase «feeling affronted»

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.

This House should feel affronted,» he adds.

A less magnanimous man than I might feel affronted.

In the face of this, HMCTS no doubt feels affronted by the scepticism of domestic observers of its efforts — «Why do they keep saying that you can't even get reliable wi - fi in the Royal Courts of Justice?».

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Despite detractors who feel separating the holidays is an affront to their Confederate ancestors.

A call to abolish food banks completely was rejected by the report though: «We know that such a cry is based on the affront people feel for their fellow citizens who have to use food banks as a crucial safety net.

Many people, on first encountering Darwin's theory of biological evolution, feel deeply affronted and refuse to accept it.

Even when there is no intent to inflict harm, a law rooted in this view of dignity teaches that anyone who feels excluded by the law should see this exclusion as an affront to their worth as a person.

Doing so feels like an affront to all proper football sensibilities, but believe it or not the Jaguars won and could very well keep winning behind their Tebow - ass quarterback.

A surprise poop feels like a personal affront.

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.

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.

This «affront to English democracy», as the Conservatives might brand it, might appal voters so much that the Speaker, or the Supreme Court, feels obliged to intervene.

But you know it's a lot better to be talking about it and trying to work through it than ignoring it because I think for a lot of people in this city and in this country, they feel that their history has been ignored or affronts to their history have been tolerated.»

«Knowing the role of the press, we felt that it was an affront and insult, not to you alone, but the generality of the society, because no society can exist without information.

It feels like a personal affront: I planned the experiment, I scoured the literature, I prepared everything just so, and it still doesn't work!

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

Affronted by his perception of me as an unfair stereotype, and with a circle of friends and lifestyle that in no way matched that stereotype, I felt insulted.

But this is one of those movies where even the attempt at aesthetic coherence feels like an affront.

One charter leader put in stark terms how closing a district school and replacing it with a charter school can feel like a personal affront to a community if there hasn't been enough transparency about school performance:

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.

Bashi has stated that she penned this title due to the lack of information aimed at children about Palestine and its people, yet some must feel that even offering the title on bookstore shelves is an affront to daily life.

Admittedly, the price feels like a bit of an affront.

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

And then we have companies like EA and people like you marching in and proving people like me completely wrong — you actually take it as a * moral affront * that past games that felt the need to portray realistic AK - 47s didn't actively promote AK - 47s as a consumer product or tell you where you could go buy one.

«First off, I felt aggressively affronted,» said Catherine Wood, a senior curator at the Tate Modern in London and a specialist in performance.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

It can cause your former partner to feel bitter, affronted, victimized, misunderstood, offended, repulsed, disgusted, targeted, or any negative thing upon being served with a court application before even having a chance to negotiate things more personally.