While composers created pieces affronting the war, they were not limited to their music.
It is not an industrial dispute; it is not a question of affronting trade unions by once again confronting them with legal situations that they do not like.
We at any moment now shall be affronting the question of selectivity in the social services.
It is not now a question of affronting old enmities but of encouraging new friendships.
For a lady to see what is now known as a flasher is offensive, upsetting and affronting and no one would suggest otherwise.
Do we really want to do that by affronting one of the distinguished members of the international pharmaceutical community?