Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or country. . . [It] is an affront to our values and our commitment to human rights.
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
If you have a big splash of ecstasy in your life every day you are going to teach students something finer than "buy lowsell high". Maybe you'll teach them, not by what you say but by who you are, to live their lives as a standing affront to the ravaging mercantile mentality.
The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country.
Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.
A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.
A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.
Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.
Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you
Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere. . . I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture.
Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.
An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself
Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God.
I'm connected to the event of 911 by my desire to do something to honor the 911 survivors and those who didn't survive. Something that moves our society forward, something that engages children in what it means to be a citizen and encourages them to love and be inclusive. Because if we don't live our lives well - if I don't live my life well - it's an affront to all the people who were involved in the tragedy of 911.
Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.
