Sentences with phrase «so affronted»

He sounded so affronted.

But Downing Street was so affronted by this ermine - clad rebuke as to threaten the upper chamber with punitive loss of powers.

But Luther soon got on to what so affronted him, and what had been an annoyance in the Church for centuries: misuse of ecclesiastical disciplines.

Not exact matches

You are so accustomed to hearing about the wonderful cross, the glorious cross, and how thankful we should be to God for sending His Son to die for our sins, that it is an affront to your theology to hear someone say that the crucifixion was evil.

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.

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.

One of the major causes of social conservatism is the fact that churches, schools, and other social institutions are so largely influenced by persons whose advantage it is to preserve the status quo and who are prone to regard any departure from it as an affront to Christian morality.

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.

Evelyn wouldn't sit still for a second, she's at that 14 - month - old stage when being held is an absolute affront to her entire existence, so she squirms and hollers and thrashes but the second she's on the ground, she hollers to be picked up again.

So framing things as an affront to god or a «sin» or however you wish to term this stuff is no solution, since the frame of reference is completely bogus in the first place.

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.

Both groups, as the NY Times article highlighted include moms across the spectrum so joining, like belonging to any club is not for the easily affronted.

But so far, strollers have been a flop in Nairobi, an affront to a time - honored tradition.

This is fully compatible with the intro to my answer: «In a nutshell, the European reaction to everything they don't like is to try to ban it or to exterminate its practitioners»... Europeans think Muslim women wearing the veil is an affront to feminism, so the first solution they come up with is to ban it.

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.

He said he believed doing so, however, would be an affront to the popular support for his campaign.

So we always have to stay up on all their affronts to us,» said Gates.

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!

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.

«These things are also proudly artificial and processed, so they re a good affront to the caution I use with most other eating,» she says.

REMEMBER ME is a turgid excuse for a perceptive character study / romance that pins its hopes on a twist that is not so much a jolt as an affront.

Richard gets bailed out, but Mildred does not and though Richard has the money and desire to do so, the square - jawed sheriff (Marton Csokas) sits him down and explains why he considers their actions an affront to God.

Charley Varrick (1973)-- 9:00 PM, 35 mm «characteristically clean, fascinatingly and unfussily detailed, beautifully paced — a model of movie craftsmanship and a pointed affront to those slovenly wrecking derbies and indiscriminate bloodbaths that have been passing for contemporary action thrillers the last year or so.

As for Kate — so vibrant and real, it was probably an affront to Gran's forehead.

Performance Ann Dowd, Compliance The real - life story that inspired Compliance is so certifiably insane, such an apparent affront to common sense, that dramatizing it presented a Herculean challenge.

The Ain't Rights (which also includes Alia Shawkat, and Callum Turner) are embittered and affronted to be playing before a rowdy room of bigots and so, in true punk fashion, opt to open their set with a spirited cover of the Dead Kennedys» classic «Nazi Punks Fuck Off», which predictably goes down like a lead balloon.

Is Forza an affront to the monarchy, so to say?

The original affront dies down, so that one forgets how bad the paintings were; and time casts its comforting spell so that one can hardly see them as anything other than Schnabels.

Because so much of the exhibition lies in the realm of sci - fi, it's bound to perplex at least a good chunk of visitors — and people are already comparing it to Elisabeth Sussman's fabled, notorious 1993 Whitney Biennial, which served up an bracing dose of identity politics to an unprepared audience and drew an affronted response from critics hoping for safer fare.

So why don't more judges use contractions, or at least tell us that they don't agree with Justice Scalia that contractions are «an affront to the dignity of the court»?

It gives affront, I suspect, to our poor ego consciousness, that so much that is undeniably us is not merely beyond its control but beyond its ken.

But, as I mentioned, Moto's touch is very light when it comes to skinning, which also means that you can rest assured you won't be affronted by too many options or the unnecessary bloatware offered by so many other Android manufacturers.

There has clearly been a lot in the local and national media recently about the passing of HB2, and rightfully so; this legislation is an affront to the rights and liberties of the LGBT community.