Sentences with phrase «personal affront to»

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'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.

Not exact matches

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

Do you take affront to everything, get offended easily, or think it's your personal crusade to «educate» those around you?

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

-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.

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.

Addressing the camera directly, both artists recall personal racial affronts and challenge viewers to consider their own actions.

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

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