Word: affront
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...writing to comment on a review of The Greatest Musical Ever' Sung which appeared in your paper on November 19th. Quite simply, we found the review to be in had taste. To judge by reviewer Martin Kaplan, the Dunster House production itself was an affront to the religious sensibilities of many members of the Harvard community. Our first impulse was to ignore the whole matter, but we found so many people who have felt offended by it that we wish to speak publicly...
...transition, and now I've experienced the harmful aftereffects. So I was encouraged some-what yesterday at Jordan's when some six-year-old flatly refused to go up and sit in Santa's lap. The thing about department store Santas is that they take this reluctance as an affront to their personal appeal. So this Santa engaged the boy in a little heckling. "I think you're scared," he told...
Where does the love of man end and the love of God begin? Can an individual's passion be divided between the two without disaster to man or affront to God? Does God demand terrible sacrifice as atonement for an innocent appetite for earthly life? These are questions that Ingmar Bergman has grappled with in many of his 31 bleak, brooding films. In The Act of the Heart, Canadian Producer-Writer-Director Paul Almond tries to explore the same problems, while simultaneously creating a St. Joan-like allegory of a country girl's purity and passion...
Actress Bujold is incontestably a beguiling martyr, alternatingly childlike and womanly. But the force of her radiance is blunted by the conventionality of her role. Realizing that their love is an affront to man and God, Martha immolates herself. This is intended to be her act of the heart. Instead, it is simply the awkward denouement of Almond's chaotic vision. Mark Goodman
...Agnew's acerbic animadversions affront, antagonize and alienate attentive Americans...