Zitat des Tages über Beleidigung / Affront:
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.
I cannot bear assaults of any kind, and it seems to me that the Beatles essentially were out to affront and to assault.
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American, and a threat to every private sector job in this country.
It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.
And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
Every aspect of Obamacare is an affront to the very founding of this country.
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
Any staffing changes that disproportionately cut the number of African Americans at CNN - intentionally or otherwise - are an affront to the African American journalism community and to the African American community as a whole.
