Sentences with phrase «seem affronted»

One group of dissenters, predictably enough, is Holocaust deniers, who seem affronted by the gathering of physical evidence to describe atrocities they insist never occurred.

It seem an affront to suggest that our death can add anything to God's glory or perfection, whereas God can add everything to our death and give it final meaning.

The idea is so seductive that it has been a mainstay of science fiction since the early days of Star Trek and Doctor Who, but it also seems an affront to common sense.

Huvelle seemed affronted by the document.

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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 claim here seems to be that appointing him king would be an affront to God.

NCR seemed particularly affronted that «by casting suspicion on Cardinal Casaroli's judgment and character, Pacepa undermines the integrity of the entire Vatican strategy between 1963 and 1989, knownas «Ostpolitik».»

Your replicating of sameness seems to be an affront in your knowledge base for knowing very little to just about nothing of anything worthy of resonating.

is the brunt of the issues I have with the Christian traditionalists who do dare to make such Word out to be but a fettered disposition of parabolic venues meant to shape mankind's assimilative naturalisms ever so gently thru timely passing onwards subjective emotionalisms of tenaciously tenured rationalisms without much bitterly connotation - affronted derailments as seems the issues within our onwards marching histories trails of religious Lent.

I've always found it curious that Christians so passionately defend the sanctity of life, when so many seem to think that human beings are, by their very nature, an affront to God.

Frankfurt had just grabbed their second — the fools, the fools — and Madrid, though they were in no danger of losing the game, seemed to take affront.

A trying man to fight under the best of circumstances, he seemed to Basilio to be an affront to Carmen's skill.

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

Arthur seems personally affronted when he is accused of being racist.

He seemed personally affronted by the row that his committee of MPs would do anything other than the right thing.

But to many people, the animal behavior perspective on art still seems like an affront to our idea of what it means to be human.

The actress Penelope Ann Miller seemed personally affronted, writing, «To imply that this is because all of us are racists is extremely offensive... it was just an incredibly competitive year.»

-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.

This generally pernicious and counterintuitive trend (facts are more easily accessed than ever) arrives just in time to offer comfort to those responsible for another irritating affront to the public's intelligence, one that's been creeping up in the world of cars for decades but which seems to have finally fully flowered — the willingness of carmakers to abandon the actual facts in favor of pseudofacts when naming their models.

Will Entrekin gets a hand on the baton, too, in There's No Such Thing As The Publishing Debate, writing «Many people seem to think that people's preferences are an affront to their own.»

Dore Ashton noted that the white canvases seemed untouched, and identified this as the source of their failing: they lacked the trace of the artist's hand, and this left them bereft of any reference or relevance to human culture and history.15 Herbert Crehan characterized the unpainted quality of the White Paintings as an affront, dismissing them as «incompatible with the needs of professional painting.»

Just when it seemed that contemporary artists had wrung the last aesthetic surprise and audience affront from the century - old genre of junk assemblage, along comes Barlow with things unforeseen.

While not minimising the seriousness of what seemed to be a deliberate attempt to defraud the Revenue, it would not be an affront to the public conscience to award damages to the purchasers.

Plugging your old keyboard and mouse into it would seem like an affront to your PC's raw unbridled power.

I recognize that the term benevolent sexism can seem quite the affront to men who learned that valuing women involves putting them first.