Sentences with word «umbrage»

Other New York Democrats also took umbrage at Trump's response to the attacks.

Loy speculates that the ice man's trade may have taken him into mountain passes whose boundaries were disputed: «He could easily have run across someone from another valley who took umbrage at finding Ötzi hunting in territory he considered his own.»

And I bet someone took umbrage with Mrs. Wakefield when they discovered she added chocolate chunks to a Butter Do - Drops Cookie recipe.

part of me feels like quite the dolt to continue to care and feel a level of umbrage about how everything panned out.

Many Democrats took particular umbrage at what they saw as Trump's attempt to take credit for the African - American unemployment rate hitting a record low.

(Some critics and artists, especially the abstract expressionists, took great umbrage with Warhol's work, seeing it as antithetical to their ideals and as encouraging of consumerism.)

I just take umbrage when its usually pointed out that its only male and generally white to boot.

Sparks took extreme umbrage at the idea that this woman was spending her first Mother's Day having a break with her partner at a pub and not at a park gazing adoringly at her child under a tree somewhere.

The queen, an amiable woman of sturdy stock whose hugs rival those of bears in the nearby woods, did take mild umbrage over reports that at 63 she's some kind of computer illiterate.

You might expect Schmitt, who'd tried to position Alpha as a viable alternative, to take mild umbrage at this.

Had he turned away from her and pretended like it never happened, I would have taken more umbrage with him.

My personal initial read on this was dogs are simple and just not smart enough to speak Japanese but as far as we know these dogs have only ever lived in Japan so it admittedly is an odd choice that I've seen others take understandable umbrage with.

However if I was Marianne Cusato of Katrina Cottage fame or even Michael «Heck of a job, Brownie» Brown of FEMA, I would take serious umbrage with the above comparison:

While mom - and - pop brewers generally earn their reputations as laidback types — often starting businesses in their basement, with the help and advice of other brewers — they've taken great umbrage recently over the muddling of the craft beer market.

During the police interview, Craig's tone was (in my view) entirely respectful; he didn't try to pull rank, but the officer took umbrage just the same:

With that in mind, festival director Roger Durling took playful umbrage on stage with her remarks at the Golden Globe ceremony a week ago when she claimed she never wins anything.

Britain could also take umbrage if Scotland adopts much more liberal immigration policies.

Peace is seldom the fondness yet is always wantonness and Love is the treasures for all to take leavened umbrages upon without flailing one's wordage toward indecent measures.

And those rumours have been given umbrage by quotes made by Leverkusen director Jochen A. Rotthaus, who has admitted that the club are preparing for life after the former Manchester United frontman.

Like Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon, I'm capable of being angry at «sartorial sexism» while still having umbrage left over for more compelling issues.

Oh, election season — a period of time in which umbrage - taking statements and counter-statements are blasted out and blogged.

While some took righteous umbrage at the notion of public ownership, the point I was trying to make was that this secret discussion last summer, however brief, should have been put out there for public consideration.

This has dragged on for well over a week now, and there's nothing that she seems to be able to say that isn't misinterpreted by the self - appointed guardians of feminism, gender, and sexuality on twitter as another gross personal insult to those for whom it is a professional requirement to take umbrage all the time.

«He feels the most umbrage for people who cheat the system and those who have the most advantage and abuse it,» Viet Dinh, a former assistant US attorney general, told The Post in 2013.

When the nation's leading civil rights organization passed a resolution condemning displays of racism by Tea Party activists, leaders of the movement reacted with umbrage so thick you could cut it with a knife — then demonstrated that the NAACP's allegation was entirely justified.

The great Albert Brooks took playful Twitter umbrage with my yanking him from the predicted five supporting actor contenders recently.

But Hooper spikes his scenario with the baggage of the societal umbrages undercutting the era: Vietnam, the vegetarian movement, human jobs being taken over by machinery, and cult - family values.

Duval County School Board member Warren Jones, best known for decades on the Jacksonville City Council, was likewise umbraged.

I think if they suppress the ego driven umbrage reaction and instead get down to the realities of the market they are in, everyone can make more money and be more happy.

On second thought: even a letter from spurned dendroclim scientists will do — is there a Googleable umbrage letter from the underrepresented dendroclim community, demanding their cores / corals / borehole / varve data be acknowledged and analyzed, and be part of the club?

Edward Carr, a geographer at the University of South Carolina, took umbrage last year when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urged him and more than 800 other authors contributing to the next batch of climate assessments by the group to «keep a distance from the media.»

He took considerable umbrage that an asylum and immigration tribunal, upheld by the High Court, stopped the deportation of Learco Chindamo: «Abolish the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights... The fact that the murderer of Philip Lawrence can not be deported flies in the face of common sense.

None of these points means that your potential boss or potential employee is a control freak, but they certainly open the door to pursue specifics, such as a resistance to taking orders, taking exceptional umbrage to other peoples» messes and a reluctance to admit they are wrong.

«Real» mums too umbrage at the idea being primped was «multitasking».

«I don't think he'd run with a sense of umbrage or «why are you primarying me,»» Gyory said.

On my recent backyard vacation I read that Ulster County Legislature Minority Leader Dave Donaldson had taken extreme umbrage at the suggestion that the recently appointed county study commission on police services could be a vehicle to eliminate the sheriff's road patrol.

Astorino took particular umbrage at Cuomo blasting his stance against the affordable housing settlement, saying it hurt minorities, with the GOP candidate accusing Cuomo of playing «the race card.»

And, alas, those who are more advanced and taking the care to train themselves in retail concepts tend to take great umbrage at us for pointing out that many others are making these mistakes.

Farage finally took umbrage when one pub - goer called him «a hybrid Conservative BNP in a bloody suit».

It's often the partners who take more umbrage.

«We wanted to meet console users» expectations,» said Ohle, who takes understandable umbrage at labeling the console version just another port.