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Levin seemed affronted to see Ross so stripped of glamour.
Carol wondered for an affronted moment if maybe they meant her.
Snowden says he was affronted by the rank hypocrisy of it all.
Affronted, Tam sued, and took it all the way to the Supreme Court.
Nor am I the only TCer affronted by Apple ditching the headphone jack.
Similarly, those on the left are affronted by threats against anti-fascist activists,
"It's a new thing that people have been affronted by it," Feinstein said.
When he hears that gun owners are irresponsible, he tells me, he's affronted.
She was affronted by this bodily assault; discreetly, Angela supplied her with sanitary pads.
Of course, with the Rio Games upon us, the International Weightlifting Federation is suddenly affronted.
"No wonder Garvey remains strong despite his glaring defects," the affronted poet wrote to Locke.
Peggy speaks in a screech of affronted privilege, and her politics are right-wing grotesque.
These aren't the cheap chippings I scorned my affronted French friend for describing as a delicacy.
Apparently, there's a gender divide on Ohlala; women don't seem especially affronted, but men are mad.
She now scandalized the gathering and personally affronted Washington by offering a counter toast, to Gen.
"The Republican Party has never been so affronted, but they've never been so united," he said.
"The public is rightly affronted by the remuneration of some corporate leaders," the Conservatives said on Thursday.
People who were affronted by seeing a white man lose to a black man would not attend.
If it helps anyone personally affronted by this poll, 18 percent of respondents said they couldn't decide.
Lee explained that as ARMY believed their idols were perfect, they were often affronted by any perceived criticism.
He immediately affronted his hosts by raising the prospect of changes to the treaty that defines their borders.
But on Joe Biden's beloved National Railroad Passenger Corporation, this weirdo you encountered is entitled to feel affronted.
Some users might feel affronted by these assertive new automatic features, which are clearly designed to increase interaction.
In his approach to work, Seb is a proud purist, perpetually oppressed and affronted by the prospect of compromise.
They'd already been affronted by the bevy of consulting firms brought in by Tillerson to revamp the building's processes.
An affronted Mr. Cruz, fighting in Indiana to keep his presidential bid alive, responded that he barely knew Mr. Boehner.
"The Republican Party has never been affronted, but they have never been so united as they are now," he said.
"I was dazed, confused, bewildered, bored, affronted and deafened by the boos all around me," Roger Ebert wrote at the time.
Of course there are probably those who will be affronted by the suggestion that we rid ourselves of National Tartan Day.
She was proud of her hard-earned experience in Washington and affronted by Obama's lack of it, and she campaigned accordingly.
Hideyoshi was awed and affronted that his rival had achieved such transcendence, and later, he ordered Rikyu to commit ritual suicide.
"The Republican Party has never been so affronted, but they've never been so united as they are right now," Trump said.
At first, hearing about Jaufré's adoration, Clémence is affronted and breaks into skittish lines that Ms. Phillips sings with miffed agitation.
Mugdi, whom a friend describes as "culturally a Muslim," is disgusted and affronted, wanting nothing to do with his son's memory.
The affronted Iraqi government, led by Shia Arabs, ordered its forces to retake the city and other disputed lands on October 16th.
Even in her sleep she is affronted, her body straight in the bed beside him, her head twisted to face the wall.
Rather, they're performing a kind of Kabuki theater by pretending to be affronted at the suggestion that they'd compromised their journalistic principles.
"The Republican party has never been so affronted but they have never been so united as they are right now," Trump said.
Would some people be affronted by the use of the Harvard wall as a display area for the bodies of the executed?
Nevertheless, I find myself slightly affronted every time a perfectly harmless piece of incidental dialogue has replaced a famous line-reading catastrophe.
Ronny, stoned and affronted, kicked him in the head, and after an ugly struggle Barry bashed his windpipe and left him for dead.
Affronted, the Koch brothers, whose political spending has made their name a shorthand for special-interest clout, withheld their financial support from Trump.
"First off, I felt aggressively affronted," said Catherine Wood, a senior curator at the Tate Modern in London and a specialist in performance.
Nearly three years ago, they were affronted by changes that added commissions to sales generated through the site and also veiled their names.
But any driver who fulfills them (and many that don't) will be affronted unless given an extra 20% on top of the stated fare.
Later, when the detective realizes he's been had, he's affronted — so having been charmed at first by her supposed naïveté, he now feels slighted.
His comments suggested he was more affronted by Spain, which he called "the poorest and most ignorant country in Europe," than concerned about Native Americans.
When she rejoined her mother, an affronted Gertrude told Shirley that she had had to back out of Mayer's office when he lunged at her.
Still, the main way that Trump is proving that America is great is that the affronted and angered are rising up to take him on.
On Election Night, with Clinton's victory and Trump's defeat, a loss that will not render him measurably more affronted or angry or whatever he is.
While in most recent instances, the public has sided with the affronted passenger and the offending airline has issued an apology, that's not always the case.
Ukraine is a country sandwiched between Russia and Europe and harbors aspirations to join the EU and NATO — ambitions that have affronted its powerful neighbor Russia.
Both criminologists and economists have been affronted by the way Berenson and his media enablers have selectively employed data to make claims about violence and psychosis.
I shiver, a sudden feeling that I have somehow affronted the house, that the people who lived there, wherever they are, felt my intrusion and glared.
" After the verdict was announced and facing a cascade of messages from the affronted, he posted again: "Am I the only one on Team Gawker here.
After she called his criticism of Obamacare from the left "enraging and the most privileged bs," Daou tweeted an affronted riposte to his nearly 300,000 followers.
" Dismissing the war as "a fashionable topic," Nichols complained years later, "To make a movie for young people that was not about Vietnam actually affronted them.
In theory, these voters could be so affronted by a tape that they would end their already tepid support of the president or be shocked into action.
But THEN — because yes, the drama continued — when anxious and affronted users signed on Tuesday night to play HQ and see Scott, the app was not working.
Yet when the classes have ended, when he turns on the television to watch the World Cup at night, he continues to have his thespian tastes affronted.
Or maybe it is, as it so often is with Trump, the most puerile answer: He is affronted by the suggestion that he won his election illegitimately.
We felt a bit affronted by that and wanted to write a sitcom that spoke to us on a much more intimate level than anything we'd seen before.
Stella Schnabel, the actress and daughter of the artist and director Julian Schnabel, seemed personally affronted by what she saw as Ms. Trump's support of her father's positions.
The ad in question is just a few seconds long, and while horror is subjective, it's easy to see why a lot of users would feel affronted by it.
In order to win back affronted women, Mr Trump put Melania centre stage at the Pabst theatre, in a short, pale-blue dress, and let her explain who he is.
But when Anaya challenged him on one favorite initiative, a train line connecting the Caribbean and the Pacific, he was so affronted that he called Anaya a canalla , a scoundrel.
As president-elect, Mr. Trump affronted Beijing by holding a telephone call with Tsai Ing-wen, the president of Taiwan, the island-democracy that China claims as its own territory.
And Richard Strauss's seldom-heard "Day of Peace" (83) remains controversial for its seemingly ambivalent attitude toward the Nazis, though the regime was affronted by what were seen as antiwar sentiments.
For stocks to go higher, the Fed needs to continue being affronted with "definitively mixed" data that makes the central bank second-guess its rate hike plans and become more data-focused.
The vote was sufficiently close for Remainers to dream of reversing it if they shouted loud enough, and sufficiently decisive for Leavers to feel affronted at the thought of a re-vote.
Louis's mind is a leaking sieve of grievance that yields bitterness toward his ex-wife, indifference to his daughter and the affronted conviction that people should just leave him the hell alone.
" Confronted later with the sworn testimony of a dignified and affronted lawman, the White House press office, its own credibility in tatters, was left to feebly insist, "The president is not a liar.
In an interview, the mayor said he viewed his emerging role in the race as defending New York and holding up the city as a beacon of values that the Republican field has affronted.
Robyn was miniature, a doll—with a plain, pale, wide face, her temples blue-naked where her hair was strained back, her wide-open gray eyes affronted and evasive and set too far apart.
Meanwhile, for conditions like arthritis or tendonitis, the micro-injuries caused by acupuncture pin pricks may draw blood and its healing elements to the affronted area—causing a temporary reduction in symptoms, he says.
Many Outlander fans are deeply affronted by the existence of the Sam/Cait shippers, and particularly the behavior of those who harass the actors by insisting that Heughan and Balfe must be secretly dating.
Shelly feels affronted when her kids chastise her for calling Ari their "sister" instead of their "sibling," at a time when they're all supposed to be more focused on their grief than on their self-identities.
He is, understandably, affronted by the government's apparent obsession with preventing the return of property to a law-abiding Indian citizen, to the point of passing laws that are very likely to be overturned as unconstitutional.
In Act II, he rudely rebuffs her advances; unfeelingly starts a flirtation with her sister, who is fiancée to Lensky, his best friend; then, when Lensky, affronted, challenges him to a duel, Onegin shoots him dead.
They are equally affronted by people they see as having escaped from the line: not the wealthy (who have simply reached the front), but public-sector workers, whom they see as lazy and overpaid, and welfare recipients.
Lauren Underwood, 31, a Democratic House candidate in Illinois, recalled that when she was visiting a supporter, a local Republican stopped by and was affronted when he learned that Ms. Underwood was challenging his friend in Congress.
"Artfully lighted and shot to accentuate the character's trembling, affronted jowls, his shoulders hunched, face bunched, he creeps along like a spider, alternately retreating into the shadows and pouncing with a smile," Manohla Dargis wrote of Mr. Langella's performance.
Likewise, for every example of students demanding safe places or trigger warnings so as to avoid material they consider offensive or upsetting, innumerable LGBT students and students of color found themselves in situations where they were affronted or physically threatened.
After a few combative customer service encounters, I experienced an epiphany: No matter how "wrong" they may be, we're a prosperous business, we can afford to take care of these situations, but we can't afford to let unhappy, affronted customers damage our reputation.
Thus the Trump invasion of Washington has been for the U.S. administrative class largely frightful, while the Brexit vote in the UK has affronted the liberal and much of the centrist Conservative establishment, of which the upper civil services are often part.
In January, the Gulf states were deeply affronted when Lebanon declined to support an otherwise unanimous (including even Iraq) Arab League condemnation of a mob attack on the Saudi Embassy in Tehran after the execution of a dissident Shiite cleric in Saudi Arabia.
So they may feel affronted when a lawyer clearly doesn't feel that way, or even seems to believe that other actors in the courtroom are taking their positions because they don't understand—or don't sympathize with—what it's like to be poor.
Those likely to be affronted are the descendants of the groups behind erecting the Confederate monuments, who still live in the region, or Maryland's Trump voters who claim to "have black friends," but are comfortable with Baltimore schools not having heat in the winter.
Relations with the EU have been further strained since the failed coup with European officials urging Turkish restraint in arresting and sacking officials and Turkey affronted by what it saw as a failure of its European allies to offer support at a critical moment.
As a society, the worth of women is constantly conflated with their appearance, but then many become affronted at the idea that women would use this to their advantage: that would be impure, immoral, even when viewers cross the line or demand emotional labor.
If you're among millions of Americans who feel personally affronted by the fact that the leader of the "Birther" movement will soon call the White House home, you might think the easiest way out is to pack your bags for sunnier (albeit colder) shores up North.
The tariffs have been presented with the intention of protecting the U.S. economy and promoting national security according to the Section 232 proclamation, but retaliatory tariffs from affronted trade partners can only do what they're designed to: hurt U.S. industries until an agreeable trade deal is reached for all parties involved.
The bout itself, held on October 7, 1728, was easily overshadowed by the clever and funny correspondence in the media: I, Ann Field, of Stoke Newington, ass driver, well known for my abilities in boxing in my own defence wherever it happened in my way, having been affronted by Mrs.
The timing of Rendell's screed, birthed on the morning of the primary debate in which Warren will finally face off against Biden, belies his motive—if he was so affronted by her hypocrisy back in April, why did it take him five months to write an 800-word op-ed?
Having come on as an 18th minute substitute after Javier Aquino went off injured, Corona had been at the heart of all of Mexico's best moments, relentlessly driving forward as if affronted by his omission from the starting lineup, even if it was only intended to keep him fresh for the next round.
Why, instead, did you perceive first one, then the other, as though the brain were so affronted by the preposterous, impossible sight of a face and a house that seemed to be the same size and exist in the same place at once that it made sense of the situation by offering up only one at a time?
Just as his investments in invasion-of-privacy lawsuits show that his much-trumpeted commitment to free speech may dissolve when he himself feels affronted, his role in the founding of Palantir, a secretive data-mining company employed by nearly every American military and spy agency, suggests that he's not as anti-government as he might like to believe.
When she talks, for instance, about how she was detained, interrogated and searched dozens of times at airports in the United States and abroad between 113 and 2012, following a film she made about the Iraq war, she sounds not so much affronted as curious and outraged on a civic level, almost as if she's talking about things that happened to someone else.
Honestly, Radio 2 is the drone of impending death and I feel affronted on Steps' behalf, confirmed as they now are to be at least the third-best pop act in the UK (Little Mix I got u), that whoever is in charge of them condemned them to have their glorious comeback aired by a man named Ken who may or may not remember the war.
For their part, Democrats, still seething from the election and eager to please their affronted base, have done all they can to stymie what little the Republicans have tried to do, dragging out cabinet nominations to the best of their procedural ability and instigating a nasty fight over Mr. Trump's choice for the Supreme Court that ended a decades-long tradition of bipartisan comity on such nominees.

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