Sentences with phrase «personal affront»

-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.

Here disagreement is an intolerable 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.

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.

The United States now has a president who takes everything personally, who treats every criticism of policy as a personal affront.

Requestors are then less likely to be left with the impression that your rejection is a personal affront.

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.

The Google co-founder Sergey Brin regarded the attack on his company's systems as a personal affront and responded by making security a top corporate priority.

However, if you are determined to twist everything I write into a personal affront, there is really not much chance of our having an honest dialogue, is there?

General Hershey took it as a personal affront, roaring like a wounded bull, which only delighted the non-card-carrying members of the resistance.

Students who choose abortion or have a personal story about abortion are more likely to support proabortion politicians — even if they regret their choice, they interpret political condemnation of abortion as a personal affront.

They are very sensitive to criticism because it is a personal affront as well as an insult to their «savior».

No doubt it is difficult to have one's beliefs challenged without taking such a challenge as a personal affront.

But it is definitely not for the three other people in my house who see the existence of all things crimini, portobello and shiitake as a personal affront.

«I don't want to talk about any plusses now,» says Wynn, who spent $ 40 million promoting the bout and who took Douglas's showing as a personal affront.

The «break his face» comment is one thing and it is as clear as day that the mew Manchester United boss has a big problem with the prof and sometimes appears to take his longevity or even his existence as a personal affront.

Seems to take it as a personal affront every time City are without the ball

A surprise poop feels like a personal affront.

In a 28 June statement, the Interregional Society of Scientists, a nongovernmental organization based here, called the law a «personal affront» to many scientists and demanded a «broad debate» on the law with the possibility to amend it.

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.

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.

He advises that kids are now multitaskers and that teachers and parents shouldn't take their shift in attention towards the virtual as a personal 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:

I used to take it as a personal affront when I saw bad indie book after bad indie book.

Mom sounded as if she'd taken Cherie's psychosis as a personal affront, and maybe it was.

Mai's happiness is a betrayal, her tiredness a personal affront.

Dr Curry receives good scientific criticism as a personal affront, while simultaneously supposing that her distribution of bad scientific criticism is her moral imperative.

These things happen; try not to take it as a personal affront.

It was clear that he was taking the client's attempt to decide how the file would be managed as a personal affront.

The U.S Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman, J. Christopher Giancarlo, is reportedly taking a $ 1 million USD reduction in the agency's annual budget as a personal affront after requesting a 13 percent increase.

Any little thing, because I'm so close to it, is a personal affront when it doesn't go right.

Obviously, your first tendency is to be upset and take it as a personal affront.