Usar "affront" en una oración

1. I think that Smiler took my lack of interest in his deliveries of food as a personal affront

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2. Nicola grimaced at the direct affront to Dertois Law

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3. She took it as an affront that Frank had spoken to Shelagh and not asked for her

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4. An affront to whatever god it is the Red Catholics pay obeisance to

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5. A criminal act, whether committed by an individual against another individual or against a group of individuals, notwithstanding that such actions may be either random or pre-meditated, constitutes a crime against society inasmuch as every member of that society is considered a (potential) victim that should otherwise be provided equal protection under the law and that any crime, whatever the motive, directed against (the) one represents a (potential) affront against (the) many; especially when such crimes are committed indiscriminately, without rhyme or reason; that is to say, in a manner that renders every member of that society a (potential) victim subject to arbitrary or uncertain (criminal) designs

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6. These children were strictly chosen for their ability to follow the letter of the Law blindly and unerringly, to keep a watchful eye for signs of heresy and insubordination as well as any element that was an affront to the Pantheon and the Law, or anything that might defy the Law or its upholders in spirit or in letter

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7. It would be an affront to the Council if he could not serve uwe of the proper quality

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8. Private Mott of the 5th, was given fifty lashes and almost bled to death for, and I quote: ’Not being vigilant enough in the persecution of vile deeds that promoted sin, incurred the wrath of the Gods or were an affront to the Pantheon and the Ruling Council’

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9. He felt like his very being was an affront to man

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10. And you would dare insinuate before my very presence indeed, that my sermon is a charade, a mockery designed to bring you low? Do you think so highly of yourselves? And you have the ignorant audacity to call me a blasphemer and an affront to life

11. It’s a direct affront to one of our foundations, the right of free speech

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12. As an added affront the administration has announced that it will not allow its self-appointed Czars to be called to testify before Congress to justify their existence or describe their functions

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13. We were; however, ‘the image of God’ (we have a soul that makes us His child!) and mankind had best wake up to that fact / belief before we face His Justice! --- The killing of an unborn child, at any stage of its development, is murder and an affront to both Our Creator and our Constitution!!

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14. "You mean that writer punk is a brother to one of our guys?" The CSAF seemed to take this as a personal affront to the untarnished name of the United States Air Force

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15. As they went about their work the magicians casually chatted, ‘I don’t know why the Su-Katii were so nervous about us holding up our end of the bargain? Had they any idea of the affront that the Tanarian council has caused us these past few months they would have realised that we would have carried out their work for free

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16. Rigid with passion at the affront to his dignity as a peace officer, Franklin restrained himself, knowing a lawsuit would further destabilize the already shaky ground on which he stood with the Sheriff, and lose him the job that did more than anything else to maintain his status among his peers

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17. ’ Above all else he seethed from the affront he had caused his pride and after bursting into the nearby summoning chamber; he knew he would have revenge

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18. She was followed by three nuns who hissed that I was an affront to decency; pointing at my bare toes

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19. An affront to his masculinity

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20. She said that while Vivek’s proposal was devoid of morality, Gautam’s proposition was an affront to her dignity

21. Every glance, each swaggering movement was an affront

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22. The ‘even smaller than me’ statement was a personal affront

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23. With his legs crossed and his right arm resting across his paunch while his left hand balled in a fist covered his mouth, Feltus maintained his position without so much as a blink as the affront was delivered and secretly congratulated himself for having ruffled the feathers of this virtuous man who was evidently concerned about this matter coming into the open

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24. How dare he! The affront!

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25. can be served in this affront

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26. ‘’Incidents?! My son is paraded in front of cameras by the Communists, along with five other American aviators, and you call these simply incidents? This is nothing less than an affront to the United States, Madam Chase-Smith! What is our government doing to finally put these damn Communists back in their place? We should tell the Chinese that we will drop atomic bombs on them if they don’t return our pilots

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27. No weapons can be brought even to the shore of the lake, for it is an affront to the Rainmaker

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28. This is an affront to the true God, for Allah is

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29. Ingrid couldn’t help then feel some discouragement then: the racial situation in the United States in general and in the Southern states in particular was still in her mind a disgrace and an affront to the values she believed in and had fought for

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30. feeling that it was an unjustifiable affront to Zipporah, Miriam

31. The believers who take a cartoon of their prophet with a ‘bomb in the turban’ as an affront to their ‘religion of peace’ don’t feel scandalized at all by the suicide bombers of Islam

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32. The Trilateral Commission on Hearings of Importance ruled it an activity that must be permitted, due to Abducted Ship Mazing being the official sport of the entire sector of the galaxy, which means banning or restricting it would be a gross affront to The Treaty of Manderbatt hammered out at the infamous Haurunbistle Tribunal

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33. Networks of neon signs, garish placards and unignorable billboards wipe out the lovely harmony of nature’s palette with loud hues that wound the eye and affront the soul of a few who long to see what’s hidden behind the screaming ugliness of all those ever-livid bruises

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34. Many among my colony would number this fourth affront as grounds for imprisonment

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35. Zar’s voice had risen with that last affront, and he calmed himself

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36. afrenta: the affront lies in Don Félix's insolent manner andthe masterful way in which he forces them to accept his terms withoutquestion

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37. Do you not see how this girl’s life is an affront to him, who was promised that by her hand alone his servant, McAdams, would be destroyed?”

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38. But your spiritual doctor takes your spiritual sore places as a kind of personal affront; at least, his manner often shows indignation in proportion as you are frank

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39. You tell him that his sins are an affront in the eyes of God

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40. The sheriff could not discern any serious affront caused by one person waving at another

41. It was an affront

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42. consider this an affront to his person if he releases a man

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43. “For a slight affront the Confederacy entered into total war

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44. Of course, you will not do that unless you do have utmost confidence because that would not only be an affront to your own integrity, but would rebound on you if the person did not do the right thing

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45. a refusal as a personal affront

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46. Because of this hidden secret advantage of age, these undead things have become set in their ways: so set in their customs that every time they are forced to change how they practice their evil: that in itself is an affront to what they have been accustomed to for millions and hundreds of millions of years: without any living creature giving them any lip, without any living creature ever questioning what they do to these innocent life creations of pure innocence

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47. These transgressions against Self are an affront and aberration to the truth of the soul, and to the truth of the spirit manifest in conscious cognitions, feelings and emotions, and have the potential to adversely change Self’s nature, identity and personality

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48. And rather than viewing this information as an affront to human dignity, consider that human evolution from primates is perhaps a reality and thus liberating information

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49. Subconsciously I crossed my arms across my chest as I met his considering gaze with my best look of affront

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50. I gave her a mock look of affront, “Why what’s wrong with it?”

51. But as those were in battle array who had been already used to ten thousand murders, and must tread on those dead bodies as they march alone, so were they not terrified, not did the pity men as they marched over them, nor did they deem this affront offered the deceased to be any ill omen to themselves; but as they had their right hands already polluted the murders of their own countrymen, and in that condition ran out to fight the foreigners, they seem to me to have cast a reproach upon God himself, as if he were too slow in punishing,”—Josephus’ Complete Works (Whiston) page 665

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52. ’ What is this but to assert that the sanctions of the Divine justice are infinitely less terrible than the sanctions of the Divine Mercy; or rather that it is an infinitely less terrible thing to affront the majesty of God’s righteousness than it is to reject the offers of His love?

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53. herewith I venture to present my earnest and, I may add, imperative request that Rodion Romanovitch may not be present at our interview--as he offered me a gross and unprecedented affront on the occasion of my visit to him in his illness yesterday, and, moreover, since I desire from you personally an indispensable and circumstantial explanation upon a certain point, in regard to which I wish to learn your own interpretation

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54. I do not dispute that he may have contributed to accelerate the course of events by the moral influence, so to say, of the affront; but as to the general conduct and moral characteristics of that personage, I am in agreement with you

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55. "That," said the duchess, "I should have considered the greatest affront that could be offered me;" and addressing Sancho, she said to him, "You must know, friend Sancho, that Dona Rodriguez is very youthful, and that she wears that hood more for authority and custom sake than because of her years

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56. She was not in a humour, however, to regard it as an affront, and affecting to take no notice of what passed, by instantly talking of something else, she internally resolved henceforward to catch every opportunity of eyeing the hair and of satisfying herself, beyond all doubt, that it was exactly the shade of her own

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57. John Dashwood, that not even her curiosity to see how she looked after the late discovery, nor her strong desire to affront her by taking Edward's part, could overcome her unwillingness to be in her company again

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58. vizir, wiser than his master, wished to conceal from the public the affront they

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59. Renew with you I cannot: the affront is

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60. Which would be an affront to Captain Nemo, since he hates to slay harmless beasts needlessly

61. Claire’s designer clothes and jewelry and the big houses and the pricey cars and the luxury vacations had come as a personal affront to a woman who had survived the Great Depression, a world war, the death of a husband, the loss of two children, and countless other hardships

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62. He pretended that his Christian name was Dolge,—a clear Impossibility,—but he was a fellow of that obstinate disposition that I believe him to have been the prey of no delusion in this particular, but wilfully to have imposed that name upon the village as an affront to its understanding

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63. Matthew, that you should expose me to the affront of interference

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64. He was keenly conscious of his citizenship, wished to live with his city on terms mutually honourable and resented any affront put upon him by those whom he called country bumpkins

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65. Startop, being a lively, bright young fellow, and Drummle being the exact opposite, the latter was always disposed to resent him as a direct personal affront

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66. Noirtier," said Madame de Villefort; "besides, they are to come to Paris in about a month, and Valentine, after the affront she has received, need not consider it necessary to continue to bury herself alive by being shut up with M

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67. But he met with no other affront from Apollyon quite through this valley

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68. Renew with you I cannot: the affront is too gross

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69. But this news had not produced what she had expected in him; he simply seemed as though he were resenting some affront

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70. Laces and silks and braid and ribbons, all blockade run, all the more extra affront to the Yankees

71. Instead, it seemed as though, after trying the company of the staid and cover gossip seeping about, he could have retained his popularity had he considered it patriotic citizens and winning their respect and grudging liking, something perverse in him made him go out of his way to affront them and show them that his conduct had been only a masquerade and one which no longer amused him

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72. And he seemed to take it as a personal affront that I did not starve but put my poker playing to excellent advantage and supported myself royally by for the first time, he forbade my mother to see me

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73. She was him, so courteous that his courtesy was an affront in itself

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74. In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life

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75. I shall have the honour of visiting you and paying you my respects at your lodgings not later than to‐morrow evening at eight o'clock precisely, and herewith I venture to present my earnest and, I may add, imperative request that Rodion Romanovitch may not be present at our interview—as he offered me a gross and unprecedented affront on the occasion of my visit to him in his illness yesterday, and, moreover, since I desire from you personally an indispensable and circumstantial explanation upon a certain point, in regard to which I wish to learn your own interpretation

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76. My thoughts of you are quite cold, except when you affront me

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77. My acquaintance with sheets of water was small, and the pool of Bly, at all events on the few occasions of my consenting, under the protection of my pupils, to affront its surface in the old flat-bottomed boat moored there for our use, had impressed me bothwith its extent and its agitation

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78. Claire kept her arm around Cindy and told us about the latest affront she’d suffered at the incompetent hands of Dr

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79. The sight of him was an affront, a sudden illumination of memories I’d shut off years ago

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80. He always did it this way; plus a call to the local police, a personal affront to everyone involved in chasing him

81. “Every success I had, every accolade, promotion, and medal… It was all a personal affront to him

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82. It seemed to be as much an affront to the dead as it would have been to have stripped off her clothing in her sleep whilst living

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83. You're an affront

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84. ’ ” (While Frank took Marilyn’s confession as an affront to his masculinity, others who knew her well said that she rarely felt satisfaction during sexual relations and that this problem was the consequence of her many psychological problems

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85. For a day or two after the affront was given, Henry Crawford had endeavoured to do it away by the usual attack of gallantry and compliment, but he had not cared enough about it to persevere against a few repulses; and becoming soon too busy with his play to have time for more than one flirtation, he grew indifferent to the quarrel, or rather thought it a lucky occurrence, as quietly putting an end to what might ere long have raised expectations in more than Mrs

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