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Example sentences for: affront
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"Arafat's meetings with Clinton without parallel invitations to [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu are viewed in Israel as an international affront to Netanyahu during an election period and as encouraging Arafat's promised declaration of independence," Ha'aretz said.
Anthony Burgess, in his Kingdom of the Wicked , remarks that Vespasian's own contemporaries designated street urinals as “vespasians,” certainly a much more ignominous affront because of its timeliness.
Rikyu apparently incurred the warlord’s wrath by placing a statue of himself in the large main gate, under which Hideyoshi would have had to pass — an intolerable affront to a famously proud warrior.
Exasperated by Albright's perceived affront to Malaysia, the country's Minister of Trade commented, "Maybe when I go to the states, I would like to meet Ken Starr."
And he single-handedly deserves responsibility for creating the tabloid-television phenomenon with A Current Affair , the worst affront to American television-news standards of our era.