Word: affront
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...facto secession of the wealthiest from public life. But from my vantage point, the most serious challenge facing the United States will be the fallout from the fact that tertiary education is being increasingly cordoned off for those who can afford it. This is a clear affront to democratic principles and a poor macroeconomic strategy...
...This gesture is not so much to affront Harvard as it is to show our support for a nationwide network fighting for ethnic studies," Ching said...
...from whom we have come to expect hard-nosed, objective reportage, free of the liberal bias plaguing the majority of his colleagues. In one stroke Lat betrayed his formerly clear-minded and salient perspective. If this is some kind of joke, it is a rude and tasteless affront to common decency and the last bastions of morality at the College. Lat should leave these sorts of "jokes" to his liberal colleagues...
...reality embedded in these uncomfortable and perverse themes, the film encountered a long journey of censorship difficulties with Canadian television. After garnering both widespread praise for its honest portrayal of corruption in the Catholic Church, as well as criticism from those who saw the film as an affront to the Church's authority, this powerfully chilling drama-documentary has landed at the Museum of Fine Arts. With recent talk of orphanages capturing the headlines, this brilliant film could not be more timely...
...statuettes at the , Emmy Awards. "It hurts because I have so many people ((on the show)) I feel for," he says. "I get rewarded for this, but for the crew and the people who really grunt to get things done on this show -- well, I take it as an affront to all of them. Everybody wants to have what we have and be No. 1. But after you get here, then what do you want? Roseanne said something to me: 'You've already been No. 1. Don't make it your life's goal to stay No. 1, because that...