Not that i would
put an affront
upon the learning of any of those honorable employments, much less upon their persons.
But our sin is above all a
personal affront
to god.
In both cases, i was
almost affronted
to find that i remembered almost none of the detail of their complex plots.
You have an ego identification with your ideas and you
take personal affront
to those who differ with your thoughts on any subject.
He has allowed any member to raise a concern regarding the contents of any particular message without causing a
direct affront
to the individual.
This appears to me faint sketch of a system of salvation which does
not affront
our reason and humanity.
He has allowed any member to raise a concern regarding the contents of any particular message without
causing a direct affront
to the individual.
But for a very considerable minority, it was the
greatest imaginable affront.
Not only have you caused me to waste valuable time by not filling it in, i also feel
personally affronted.
But it is also true that even the mildest depiction
constitutes an affront
of sorts to most unionists.
Paul b posted: thu nov 17, 2005 9:30 am post subject: a
gross affront... who the devil are you?
A simple analogy may help to explain why right-thinking capitalists are
so affronted
by this phenomenon.
Beyond that point it starts to
become an affront
to liberty.
The emperor threatened that if
such affront
were repeated, he would strike coins with words respecting mohammad grievous to his followers.
To our delight they obliged, popping their heads up to stare back at us, albeit looking
slightly affronted.
They are, as mr justice sullivan said,
an affront
to justice.
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