One artist took the proposal as a gross insult and refused.

This is a violation of Community Law; a gross insult.

A quoted remark of mine "is a gross insult to a nation friendly to America."

I think that is a gross insult to those who want to see duty-free retained.

Having to conduct his affairs in a trailer is a gross insult to a major power!'

This is financial ruin for Amoli and a gross insult to me."

However the Administrator was apparently so occupied with other business that he failed to respond to this gross insult.

One misplaced inflection and you had delivered a gross insult back to the first generation.

Devlin was so stunned by the gross insult that he reeled.

Palmerston called the action "a declared and gross insult".

It would be a gross insult to the people of the UK for me to accept such a gift.

To be outraged, you have to be subjected to violent injury or gross insult.

Though to be sure, I do not know how my principles would stand up to gross insult.' '

"Such an offer is a gross insult," hissed Blanche with a sneer to match his own.

To buy in grain, they said, was a gross insult to two men who had already governed provinces, and governed them well.

During a class on Shakespeare, he discovers that in Indian colleges it is considered a gross insult for a student to question a teacher.

A gross insult, as well as anatomically impossible.

Nīþ - word coincidentally shouted by historic Vikings as a gross insult and term of abuse.

Her image was of a member of her species generated without proper cultural sanction; this seemed to be a gross insult.

To call it a cesspool would be a compliment to it and a gross insult to cesspools the world over.

Ormiston told newspapers his name connected in such a way to the evangelist "was a gross insult to a noble and sincere woman."

When will she become furious over the gross insults that she is subjected to, and which aim at erasing her daily, in all fields?

She also evidenced how Proposition 8 had degraded her, and had led to her being the subject of gross insults.

Smarting under this gross insult, Gren scrambled back up the debris to Yattmur.

He sent the cleric away unhappy, saying, "Priest or no, you were unwelcome on the man's land and incited him by gross insult.