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  • This part of our lives in the near future was especially hard for us to imagine; but I realize now that the ritual we enacted in Potter's daring room also had the significance of religious rebellion for Owen Meany—it Was but one more affront to the Catholics whom he had, in his own words, ESCAPED.†   (source)
  • The king had claimed that magic was an affront to the Goddess and her gods—that to wield it was to impertinently imitate their power.†   (source)
  • Nymeria growled and spun away, affronted.†   (source)
  • The modish bonnet with curling white feathers seemed to her uncle a crowning affront.†   (source)
  • This latest affront was too much for the students to bear.†   (source)
  • Her face was rigid, an affront.†   (source)
  • At least they too were covered in grease smudges, completing the affront.†   (source)
  • More often than not, she took them to be a deliberate affront to her lack of education and (earlier) gullibility.†   (source)
  • "I'm sweet," she said, affronted, and holding back his license.†   (source)
  • SCORPIUS (affronted): Dad was—but Mum wasn't.†   (source)
  • * An affront to racial purity.†   (source)
  • He took his seat, moving with an odd combination of graceful courtliness and stiff, affronted dignity.†   (source)
  • She had a casual way of ignoring affronts, slipping past insults to her whiteness like a seasoned boxer slips punches.†   (source)
  • Freud said that both Darwin's theory of evolution and his own psychoanalysis had resulted in an affront to mankind's naive egoism.†   (source)
  • Jace looked affronted.†   (source)
  • He looks up at me, affronted, almost startled.†   (source)
  • This was of some consolation to Ferula, who took Clara's pregnancy as a personal affront.†   (source)
  • Although that was not her intention, it was the correct way to respond to anonymous letters from a class accustomed by the affronts of history to bow before faits accomplis.†   (source)
  • It was seriously meant, and if he tried to laugh it off she would take it as an affront.†   (source)
  • "When we are in Du Weldenvarden," she informed him, "I expect that you will not speak to me in such a familiar way, unless you wish to cause affront."†   (source)
  • Instead, we took it as an affront.†   (source)
  • I'm prepared, therefore, to forgive your affront to me.†   (source)
  • It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't —which, of course, is pretty often—she is surprised and affronted.†   (source)
  • That's when Christian realized that Adam's crazy driving wasn't a personal affront.†   (source)
  • It's so sleek it's an affront to everyone he passes.†   (source)
  • A smile twitched her lips as her friend started to look slightly affronted by the remark, but before Ch'idzigyaak could take it in the wrong way So' went on.†   (source)
  • "I see," says Emma, sounding a bit affronted.†   (source)
  • It was the usual procedure for Holcomb students who intended going on to college, but Mr. Clutter, a die-hard community booster, considered such defections an affront to community spirit; the Holcomb School was good enough for his children, and there they would remain.†   (source)
  • Many a sour breath had ruffled her hair and affronted her nostrils, but Jake's was neither rank nor sour.†   (source)
  • Understanding him to mean that, being a mill-hand herself, she could not get a detached view of the matter, and thus see the humour of this attempt to make society women of working-girls, Johnnie was yet not affronted.†   (source)
  • There's a part of me that feels as if I should be deeply affronted on behalf of chess players everywhere.†   (source)
  • "Of course I will," says Grady, affronted.†   (source)
  • He was defensive and a little angry and about halfway drunk, gripped by the plan and a little angry in advance, wary of the thought that I might not see the beauty and inevitability of a trip to the Bronx, that I might be unswayed by the power of old-times'—sake, and he was already sensing the edges of a bitter affront.†   (source)
  • Colonel Korn jerked his elbow free from Yossarian's clutching fingers in startled affront.†   (source)
  • To be jumped into the gang, you had to kill someone sanctioned by the Brotherhood—a black man, a Jew, a homosexual, or anyone else whose existence was considered an affront to your own.†   (source)
  • It was a pantaloon bird staring up at her with an affronted expression on its beak.†   (source)
  • In the days to come, each would take the actions of the other as a personal affront.†   (source)
  • While my mother ignored it when she'd check on me at night, I sometimes heard my father whispering to her in an almost affronted tone.†   (source)
  • Others wondered why Justin wasn't simply banished out of hand-his teachings were clearly an affront to all that was sacred about the Great Romance, beginning with his talk of peace.†   (source)
  • To live even a second longer was an affront to the Fates.†   (source)
  • I act affronted, but since I'm half eyeing the Mercator girl and half looking into the garden for Helene, Grandfather isn't convinced.†   (source)
  • El Cenizo compounded the affront by passing an ordinance that no town official (there were two at the time) had to collaborate with U.S. Immigration authorities or the Border Patrol.†   (source)
  • Kennerly looked affronted.†   (source)
  • "We have not come here to speak of Mr. Wilde's misfortunes," Felicity says hastily, and far too rudely, but Dr. Van Ripple shows no sign of being affronted by her brashness.†   (source)
  • Lewis Tappan believed that slavery was wrong on moral terms, an affront to God Almighty, and that anyone who permitted slavery or racial prejudice to occur without protest sinned as greatly as those who embraced the evils of oppression.†   (source)
  • "That you should even question their accuracy is an affront, madame," replied the Jackal coldly.†   (source)
  • That's far from everything and what you've left out is an affront to all womankind— Step outside and say that!†   (source)
  • It affronted his dignity to shout, but it would have offended his pride to order the music lower.†   (source)
  • He vaguely understood that they had been humiliated, that he had affronted the holiness of order, and that at this moment it was distinctly disadvantageous to be Italian.†   (source)
  • His head drawn into his shoulders, he was looking at them with the anger of a man declaring that the country's troubles were a personal affront to him.†   (source)
  • As Hisham was the most junior, the flood of affronts would always end up pouring down on his head.†   (source)
  • For I had been quietly considering various revenges upon him, drawing up the ways I would pay him back for his diatribes and affronts, my plans including, too, the-most extreme of acts.†   (source)
  • It was a deliberate affront to me and a threat toward Sofia.†   (source)
  • Kali stepped back as if she had been deliberately affronted: and such pity as she might have had in her perished.†   (source)
  • Rousseau viewed the bombing of the Weinberg Center not merely as a failure of intelligence but as a personal affront.†   (source)
  • Mine had been the fury of resentment born of fear: resentment against the beasts who had engendered naked terror in me and who, by so doing, had intolerably affronted my human ego.†   (source)
  • She wins all arguments by the use of vehemence and the conviction that a difference of opinion is a personal affront.†   (source)
  • Always this was an affront to black men, one of the many affronts that white men apparently could not perceive.†   (source)
  • The totalitarian world finds even symbols of love and of worship an affront.†   (source)
  • "On the other hand," he added, "I shall take it as a personal affront if there are not ten prisoners for sacrifice to Nirriti the Black, my personal patron-outside these walls, of course, where observance of the Dark Feast will not be held so heavily against us ...."†   (source)
  • In Jackson it was counted an affront to the neighbors to start out for anywhere with an empty seat in the car.†   (source)
  • He was a baby, a twenty-two-year-old baby: the slightest cut, the slightest affront, and home he came howling to mother, the source of all grief.†   (source)
  • It was felt that the collection was an affront to African religion, and no one at the lycee took it over.†   (source)
  • Randy's manner, dress, and attitude all seemed an affront.†   (source)
  • MORE (For a second furiously affronted; then humor overtakes him) If you're willing to guess at that, Your Grace, it should be a small matter to guess my objections.†   (source)
  • Mary, whispering, "Excuse me, retired to the bathroom, affronted and humbled that one should have to obey such a call at such a time; she felt for a few moments as stupid and enslaved as a baby on its potty, and far more ungainly and vulgar; then, with her wet hands planted in the basin of cold water she stared incredulously into her numb, reflected face, which seemed hardly real to her until, with shame, she realized that at this of all moments she was mirror gazing.†   (source)
  • She considered anything but the very best manners to be an affront to her dignity.
    affront = intentional insult
  • Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.   (source)
  • Nearly Headless Nick looked highly affronted.†   (source)
  • Travers stopped in his tracks, clearly affronted.†   (source)
  • "Malfoy was cleared!" said Fudge, visibly affronted.†   (source)
  • He'd printed the picture anyway, and Reenie was affronted, as much by us as by Elwood Murray.†   (source)
  • Hermione cried suddenly, making Harry and Ron jump; Crookshanks leapt off her, looking affronted.†   (source)
  • He turned and left, the very picture of affronted dignity.†   (source)
  • "They're not telling the whole story," Sovoy said, affronted.†   (source)
  • 'No,' said Harry, ignoring Hermione's affronted look at being cut off in her defence of Kreacher.†   (source)
  • The colonel lifted his eyes as though affronted and studied the chaplain with aloof distrust.†   (source)
  • Bagman looked almost affronted, but couldn't say much more as Fred and George turned up at that point.†   (source)
  • She stared, affronted.†   (source)
  • The Major looks affronted.†   (source)
  • "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones, and he rose into the air and glided back toward the far end of the Gryffindor table just as Dumbledore got to his feet at the staff table.†   (source)
  • She sounded affronted.†   (source)
  • Clary wondered if she were imagining it, or if there was actually a faintly affronted tone to his "voice."†   (source)
  • Be quick to be affronted.†   (source)
  • She looked affronted.†   (source)
  • Ron was seriously affronted when a medieval wizard called out that he clearly had a bad case of spattergroit.†   (source)
  • "No," Jon said, affronted.†   (source)
  • "Why," Ser Creighton said, affronted, "I am the famous Ser Creighton Longbough, fresh from battle on the Blackwater, and this is my companion, Ser Illifer the Penniless."†   (source)
  • Still, a sheep that was known for bleating a great deal would not stay silent if his dignity was affronted or his business was in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Jace looked affronted.†   (source)
  • They gaped at me, surprised, affronted.†   (source)
  • Lippy had been put in charge of firewood, and the wood he cut didn't suit Bolivar, who was affronted by Lippy's very presence.†   (source)
  • A plant that struggled to mangle its roots, a bird that fought to break its wings would not remain for long in the existence they affronted.†   (source)
  • Firing squads in the north were more efficient; it was said that some used machine guns, and the paperwork was nonexistent, but in Rome the populace could not be affronted.†   (source)
  • Decent people everywhere were affronted, and Milo was all washed up until he opened his books to the public and disclosed the tremendous profit he had made.†   (source)
  • Once it was clear he was not going to be constantly affronted by the sight of Jake and Lorena, Dish's mood improved a little.†   (source)
  • Dobbs was affronted.†   (source)
  • In those times, the well-meaning efforts of Bob or the neighbors to cheer her up had merely affronted her.†   (source)
  • Rod left, feeling affronted.†   (source)
  • They were embarrassed, vaguely aware of some crisis and vaguely affronted, but unable to interfere; it was as though they were the deaf-mutes and he the speaker.†   (source)
  • We were not, of course, because even well-disposed white men tended to be turned off and affronted if black men told them truths that offended their prejudices.†   (source)
  • Since Bill for many years had been president of a manufacturing concern employing six thousand people, few of whom ever disagreed with him about anything, he had been affronted and angry.†   (source)
  • Any nineteenth century physicist could have given unassailable reasons why atom bombs were impossible if his reason were not affronted at the question; any twentieth century physicist could explain why time travel was incompatible with the real world of space-time.†   (source)
  • His face in the stage light, dark-skinned, smooth, with two deep folds from his nose down the sides of his mouth, was unmoved or even affronted in its stage expression.†   (source)
  • Rod felt affronted.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, her netlink recognized the woman, and Cinder forgot about the affront.†   (source)
  • POLLY CHAPMAN (standing, full of affront): No. No.†   (source)
  • Fostering the boy elsewhere would be a grievous affront to him.†   (source)
  • Too much an affront to Lannister pride, that close to home.†   (source)
  • His death would not only be an affront to me, but it would be far too honorable for him.†   (source)
  • But won't the Tyrells take the match as an affront, if they have designs on the girl?†   (source)
  • She was boiling mad now—even the dressing seemed a personal affront.†   (source)
  • But he put on her, with the affront of his body, the affront of his sense too.†   (source)
  • Moira didn't look much like Aunt Elizabeth, even with the brown*wimple in place, but her stiff-backed posture was apparently enough to convince the Angels on guard, who never looked at any of us very closely, even and perhaps especially the Aunts; because Moira marched straight out the front door, with the bearing of a person who knew where she was going; was saluted, presented Aunt Elizabeth's pass, which they didn't bother to check, because who would affront an Aunt in that way.†   (source)
  • He saw for the first time his father's house for the monstrosity, the affront, the monument to injustice, that it privately was to everyone else.†   (source)
  • He still took his brother's frivolous activities as a personal affront, for he could not accept the fact that Nicolas could waste his time and energy on balloon rides and the slaughter of chickens when there was so much work to be done in the Misericordia District.†   (source)
  • What will be the next affront?†   (source)
  • Richard told Laura if she talked about it to anyone else, especially anyone at her school, he would be bound to hear about it and would consider it a personal affront, as well as an attempt at sabotage.†   (source)
  • Some trifling affront.†   (source)
  • It's an affront, all of that.†   (source)
  • Even for soldiers, it was hard not to feel uneasy at such an affront to the gods most had worshiped all their lives.†   (source)
  • They see you coming in your bouncy blue-and-white shoes and have things to say and gestures to make or just looks to look, or nothing at all sometimes, you're a ghost, a shadow—a number of men clustered near a chain-link fence or empty lot, and you're never sure whether it's better to veer away in a defensive arc or keep running in a straight line because the first tactic might offend them and the second might tempt them to get familiar or maybe even affront them in its unaffectedness, and some evenings it's the snow.†   (source)
  • We've spent yesterday afternoon and all day today trying to find out," began the woman, leaning forward, delicately fingering the indelicate glass as though it were an affront to her sensibilities.†   (source)
  • She and Molly are about as opposite as it is possible to be, which would be fine if Dina didn't take Molly's choices as a personal affront.†   (source)
  • However, to the right of the gargantuan ornate living-room fireplace was an item that stood out like a decorator's nightmare: a The second contradiction to the decor, and undoubtedly an affront to the memory of the elegant Romanovs, was a heavyset man in a rumpled uniform, open at the neck and stained with vestiges of recent meals.†   (source)
  • Always this was an affront to black men, one of the many affronts that white men apparently could not perceive.†   (source)
  • Your coming here is an affront, an impertinence, an audacity.†   (source)
  • As to resenting any affront from her brother, he would have felt, even if he had not naturally been of a most pacific disposition, that to wag his tongue or lift his hand against that sacred gentleman would be an unhallowed act.†   (source)
  • And because I have nobody but you to look to, you think you are to make me do, or not do, everything you please, and are to put any affront upon me.†   (source)
  • Mr Dorrit, on the altar of whose dignity all this was incense, made a gracious reply; and said that his people should—ha—countermand his horses, and he would—hum—overlook what he had at first supposed to be an affront, but now regarded as an honour.†   (source)
  • Or, by every Saint who was stoned to death, I'll be affronted and compromising; and then some people who are not dead yet, had better have been stoned along with them!'†   (source)
  • 'You have affronted me.†   (source)
  • They aren't successful and so they aren't affronting the hot Southern pride of their men folks.†   (source)
  • He seemed to take pleasure not only in affronting the sincere and red-hot loyalties of Atlanta but in presenting himself in the worst possible light.†   (source)
  • Before him stood his mother, looking tense and startled, her hand resting on his father's shoulders, and below, seated, bis father, cheek on fist, eyes lifted, sourly glowering, affronted, questioning with taut and whiplike stare.†   (source)
  • Goose Grease!" which, they were convinced, was the chief staple of Semitic diet; or with the blind acceptance of little boys of some traditional, or mangled, or imaginary catchword of abuse, they would yell after their muttering and tormented victim: "Veeshamadye Veeshamadye!" confident that they had pronounced the most unspeakable, to Jewish ears, of affronts.†   (source)
  • hair white, the eyes still even young, even a faint bloom yet on what would be dewlaps and not cheeks any longer, the small plump ringed unscarified hands folded in tranquil anticipation of the food, on the damask before the Haviland beneath the candelabra which he had fetched to town years and years ago in wagons, to the astonished and affronted outrage of his fellow citizens), and against Judith already taller than Ellen, and Henry though not as tall for sixteen as Judith was for fourteen, yet giving promise of someday standing eye to eye with his father; —this creature, this face which hardly ever spoke during the meal, with eyes like (as you put it) pieces of coal pressed into sof†   (source)
  • Not that the aunt would have considered herself insulated against being thus affronted, she simply could not have believed that her intentions and actions of the day could have any result other than the one for which she had surrendered for the time not only all Coldfield dignity but all female modesty as well.†   (source)
  • He was so affronted at a Butler becoming a gambler that when I came home for the first time, he forbade my mother to see me.†   (source)
  • He always left her before they reached the town again but all Atlanta knew about their meetings, and it gave the gossips something new to add to the long list of Scarlett's affronts to the proprieties.†   (source)
  • (and maybe deciding then and there that it was too much trouble and bother and that he would not have any children or at least hoped he would not) and hence no man had a father, no one personal Porto Rico or Haiti, but all mother faces which ever bred swooping down at those almost calculable moments out of some obscure ancient general affronting and outraging which the actual living articulate meat had not even suffered but merely inherited; all boy flesh that walked and breathed stemming from that one ambiguous eluded dark fatherhead and so brothered perennial and ubiquitous everywhere under the sun—" They stare at one another—glared rather—their quiet regular breathing vaporisin†   (source)
  • He not only affronted the town with insinuations of venality on the part of men in high places and slurs on the courage of the men in the field, but he took pleasure in tricking the dignified citizenry into embarrassing situations.†   (source)
  • "Mr. Dale!" exclaimed Helen, almost affronted.†   (source)
  • It's not," replied Kells, passionately, as if his manhood had been affronted.†   (source)
  • I'll admit he amazes me—and affronts me, too, I'm afraid," replied Helen.†   (source)
  • The rather crude drift of the conversation affronted her.†   (source)
  • I knowed you'd be affronted at what I had to say; but I don't mind that.†   (source)
  • And now you blame me," cried I, "because I cannae laugh and sing as if I was glad to be affronted.†   (source)
  • But he did not respond to her hint, and, a little affronted, she accepted the proffered chair.†   (source)
  • But contact with the West had affronted, disgusted, shocked, and alienated her.†   (source)
  • "Never, madam," cried he, affronted in his turn: "never, I assure you.†   (source)
  • You should ha' thought twice before you affronted to extremes a man who had nothing to lose.†   (source)
  • "The idea!" said Marius, almost affronted by the question.†   (source)
  • "Excuse me, sir," said Luzhin, affronted, and speaking with excessive dignity.†   (source)
  • You are not going to be missish, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report.†   (source)
  • "It will not do," whispered Frank to Emma; "they are most of them affronted.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, it affronted her.†   (source)
  • This crude cowboy, under the influence of drink, had affronted her; nevertheless, whatever was in his mind, he meant no insult.†   (source)
  • She thought she saw and heard everything, yet insulated her true self in a callous and unreceptive aloofness from all that affronted her.†   (source)
  • Thus they descended to the precincts of her father's homestead, and Arabella went in, nodding good-bye to him with a supercilious, affronted air.†   (source)
  • They affronted her, shocked her.†   (source)
  • Hayward felt that life was full of ugliness, his soul revolted from the thought of affronting again the cynicism of examiners, and he saw something rather splendid in kicking away the ball which lay at his feet.†   (source)
  • He did not know quite what those unknown contacts would give him, but he felt that he would gather from them a strength and a purpose which would make him more capable of affronting and comprehending the manifold wonders of places more distant and more strange.†   (source)
  • I'm not affronted, Mrs. Edlin.†   (source)
  • I wouldnae have my friends come to any house of mine to accept affronts; no," he cried, with a sudden heat of anger, "nor yet to give them!"†   (source)
  • "I am very much affronted," he said; "and this is not the way that one shentleman should behave to another at all.†   (source)
  • It dawned upon her, at length, that the singular thing about this boldness was its difference from any, which had ever before affronted her.†   (source)
  • But it had begun to dawn upon Carley that there might occur circumstances of life, in every way affronting her comfort and happiness, which it would be impossible to turn her back upon.†   (source)
  • A short, stout, ruddy young fellow, very pugnacious concerning whales, who somehow seemed to think that the great leviathans had personally and hereditarily affronted him; and therefore it was a sort of point of honour with him, to destroy them whenever encountered.†   (source)
  • But she disliked the place, which affronted and almost frightened her; not for the world would she have spent a night there.†   (source)
  • Raskolnikov had unwarily fixed a very long and direct look on him, so that he felt positively affronted.†   (source)
  • For the opposite reason, Prince John hated and contemned the few Saxon families of consequence which subsisted in England, and omitted no opportunity of mortifying and affronting them; being conscious that his person and pretensions were disliked by them, as well as by the greater part of the English commons, who feared farther innovation upon their rights and liberties, from a sovereign of John's licentious and tyrannical disposition.†   (source)
  • At a time of such love, such rapture, and such self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels and affronts matter?†   (source)
  • Anne herself was become hardened to such affronts; but she felt the imprudence of the arrangement quite as keenly as Lady Russell.†   (source)
  • My father had once been a favourite of hers, I believe; but she was mortally affronted by his marriage, on the ground that my mother was 'a wax doll'.†   (source)
  • I don't think I should; he gi'n the skin, and I didn't feel a hard thought, though Squire Doolittle got some affronted.†   (source)
  • The Emperor, with the agitation of one who has been personally affronted, was finishing with these words: "To enter Russia without declaring war!†   (source)
  • At the same time there were some among those who had been hitherto reverently devoted to the elder, who were almost mortified and personally affronted by this incident.†   (source)
  • That she was coming to apologize, and that they should have to spend the evening by themselves, was the first black idea; and Mary was quite ready to be affronted, when Louisa made all right by saying, that she only came on foot, to leave more room for the harp, which was bringing in the carriage.†   (source)
  • "Don't be affronted," said she, laughing, "but it does put me in mind of some of the old heathen heroes, who, after performing great exploits in a foreign land, offered sacrifices to the gods on their safe return."†   (source)
  • Thus the rules of politeness form a complex system of legislation, which it is difficult to be perfectly master of, but from which it is dangerous for anyone to deviate; so that men are constantly exposed involuntarily to inflict or to receive bitter affronts.†   (source)
  • and I don't feel astonishment that you are so affronted with the thoughts, of being forced to quit a comfortable home like this.†   (source)
  • The point is, however, that this single small corner-stone, the conception of a certain young woman affronting her destiny, had begun with being all my outfit for the large building of "The Portrait of a Lady."†   (source)
  • Mistrustfully and with an affectation of being alarmed and almost affronted, he scanned Raskolnikov's low and narrow "cabin."†   (source)
  • Catherine, weak-spirited, irritable, and completely under Lydia's guidance, had been always affronted by their advice; and Lydia, self-willed and careless, would scarcely give them a hearing.†   (source)
  • Do not say Miss Tilney was not angry," cried Catherine, "because I know she was; for she would not see me this morning when I called; I saw her walk out of the house the next minute after my leaving it; I was hurt, but I was not affronted.†   (source)
  • They were far from being an irritable race; far from any quickness in catching, or bitterness in resenting, affronts: but here, when the whole was unfolded, was an insult not to be overlooked, nor, for the first half hour, to be easily pardoned.†   (source)
  • "I do not see how it can be done," said she, "without affronting Lady Middleton, for they spend every day with her; otherwise I should be exceedingly glad to do it.†   (source)
  • She took the first opportunity of affronting her mother-in-law on the occasion, talking to her so expressively of her brother's great expectations, of Mrs. Ferrars's resolution that both her sons should marry well, and of the danger attending any young woman who attempted to DRAW HIM IN; that Mrs. Dashwood could neither pretend to be unconscious, nor endeavor to be calm.†   (source)
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