Sentences with phrase «on personal affront»

But this is nothing compared with the indulgence of George Osborne, just because a dinner party friend has given him a newspaper to play out a vengeful grudge against Theresa May based far more on personal affront than political principle, like a toy catapult handed to a spiteful toddler.

Not exact matches

And if the vituperative comments on my Facebook feed are any indication, people seem almost eager to be angry — as if we must all pick a side and take it as a personal affront when others don't share our views.

Paladino insisted that during his discussion with POLITICO's Maggie Haberman he thought it was an «affront» that he was being grilled on his personal life, while the same questions haven't been put to Cuomo.

I've not yet had the opportunity, (because my experiences have always been with male friends, and that's a whole other dynamic) but I'd love to ask the random guy on the street who wants to know (essentially) why you don't love him (because, as we all know, black women dating non-black, ESPECIALLY white, men is a personal affront to black men) if he could really be honest and tell methat had I been alone he would've wanted to get my number.

-LSB-...] But there's a unique kind of derision that attaches to Coppola, a level of personal affront that never seems to fall on Whit Stillman or Noah Baumbach.