Decadentist and sensualist influences were evident and the then bishop of Ljubljana Anton Bonaventura Jeglič was so scandalized by the book that he bought all the copies and ordered their destruction.

The chief of the Paris police was scandalized by Modigliani's nudes and forced him to close the exhibition within a few hours after its opening.

For instance, the tsar was scandalized when the assembly of 1566 asked him to abolish the Oprichnina.

But these were dreams which did not hold him long, and he would have been scandalized had he known that his name was subsequently used as the emblem of a political and religious party.

:" Legend has it that Thoralf Skolem, up until the end of his life, was scandalized by the association of his name to a result of this type, which he considered an absurdity, nondenumerable sets being, for him, fictions without real existence.

These articles scandalized his small town and embroiled him in a free-press lawsuit.

For that reason Postmaster General Walter F. Brown asked him to preside over what was later scandalized as the Spoils Conference, to work out an agreement between the carriers and the Post office to consolidate air mail routes into transcontinental networks operated by the best-equipped and financially stable companies.

Ayala persuaded his sister to appear as the heroine of his comedy, La Primera Dama, and the innovation if it scandalized some of his townsmen, permitted him to develop his talent more freely.

Herbert's father expected him to become a barrister, but Herbert fell in with a group of actors, which scandalized the elder Blythe.

In the United States, alleged Communists and Communist sympathizers were investigated by Senator Joseph McCarthy in what later generations would recall as a " witch hunt "; many accused Communists were forced out of their jobs or their reputations were scandalized.

The clock on the mantel piece was scandalized and ticked so loudly that he glanced at it over his shoulder and then quickly left the room.

In particular, the Grand Duchesses were scandalized at the thought of being made permanently subordinate to Catherine Dolgoruki, since as an Empress she would have precedence over all of them.

The appellate court declared both women to be innocent, because the city staff were unable to prove that anyone at the beach was indignant or scandalized by their toplessness, and no complaint was ever reported.

Some Christian authorities ( Álvaro and Eulogius of Córdoba ) were scandalized at how the young ones preferred the Arabic culture and language and, in 851, tried to raise confrontation by publicly offending Islam.

Their actions, also dubbed the " Curtain Call ", scandalized WWF management, who at the time wanted to maintain the traditional illusion that the antipathy between fan favorites and villains was real and that they were not friends outside the ring.

In the 1890s the slapstick drag traditions of undergraduate productions ( notably Hasty Pudding Theatricals at Harvard College, annually since 1891 and at other Ivy League schools like Princeton University's Triangle Club or the University of Pennsylvania's Mask and Wig Club ) were permissible fare to the same middle-class American audiences that were scandalized to hear that in New York, rouged young men in skirts were standing on tables to dance the Can-Can in Bowery dives like The Slide.

When the painting first appeared at the Paris Salon under the title Portrait de Mme *** in 1884, people were shocked and scandalized ; the attempt to preserve the subject's anonymity was unsuccessful, and the sitter's mother requested that Sargent withdraw the painting from the exhibition.

Fixing the result of a more particular proposition might be seen as less likely to be noticed-for example, scandalized former National Basketball Association referee Tim Donaghy has been alleged to have perpetrated some of his fixes by calling games in such a manner as to ensure more points than expected were scored by both teams, thus affecting " over-under " bets on the games whilst also ensuring that Donaghy at least did not look to be outright biased.

Baghdad was scandalized at this treatment ; and in the end the Caliph withdrew his abusive commands.

In 1984, they played their first show at Rangoonwala Hall where they scandalized the audience by doing covers of The Who, Cream and Jimi Hendrix.

This scandalized many critics at the time ; today it is accepted practice to do so in film versions of Shakespeare plays, but not to such an extreme extent as this production.

Critics of the time were slightly scandalized by Rossini's morphing of sacred ceremony into opera seria, and even buffa, at times.

Crosby's death, given the macabre circumstances under which it occurred, scandalized Boston's Back Bay society.

In July, Egypt and Jordan accepted the U. S .- backed Rogers Plan that called for a cease fire in the War of Attrition between Egypt and Israel and for Israel's negotiated withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967, according to the United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, but the plan mentioned the West Bank to be under King Hussein's authority and that was unacceptable for the more radical organizations ; the PLO, George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ), and Naif Hawatmeh's Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) opposed the plan, criticized and scandalized Nasser.

He was, however, able to borrow money against future expectations of ecclesiastical preferment as a result of his close friendship with William Wake, then bishop of Lincoln .” Between the summer of 1711 and the Spring of 1712, Wotton appears to have experienced a Mid-life crisis, and he scandalized the neighbourhood on many occasions by being found drunk in public, or else was known to have spent prolonged periods in local brothels.

Greatly scandalized was the ( gay, mostly ) Mir Iskusstva community: Sergei Diaghilev accused Filosofov of committing ' adultery ' and the latter's somewhat embarrassing quit-and-return shenanigan was going on for quite a while, until 1905 when he finally made up his mind and settled down in Merezhkovskys ' St. Petersburg house, becoming a kind of family member.

A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.

Gorton replied with blasts that scandalized the congregation.

The phallic shape of the piece scandalized the Salon, and despite Brâncuși's explanation that it was an anonymous portrait, removed it from the exhibition.

Trained in Western Scholastic theology, Barlaam was scandalized by hesychasm and began to combat it both orally and in his writings.

Even the decadent Lord Byron was scandalized by the prospect of people " embracing " on the dance floor.

Much to the Surrealists ' satisfaction the exhibition scandalized the viewers.

He fought bravely in the Patriotic War of 1812 but scandalized his family again by marrying a Gypsy singer in 1821.

The highly erotic way Offenbach's operettas were originally played, with stars like Hortense Schneider — or the legendary courtesan Cora Pearl, who appeared in a revival of Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers in 1867 completely covered in diamonds and little else — created a scandalized reaction from certain parts of the general public.

Corporal punishment of children scandalized the Mojave, who did not discipline their children with whips and straps.

But the terms of her divorce from Thomas James did not permit of either spouse's remarriage while the other was living, and the beleaguered newlyweds were forced to flee the country to escape a bigamy action brought by Heald's scandalized maiden aunt.

Other Communist leaders were more obviously scandalized by the relationship once it became public.

While Rasputin's visits to the children were, by all accounts, completely innocent in nature, the family was scandalized.

Such stories were rife among the people, whose sense of justice had been scandalized by the whole affair.

Though everyone ( except Grandpa van Cleve ) is scandalized, eventually they are received back into the family.

One of the most significant common precursors is Alfred Jarry whose wild, irreverent, and lascivious Ubu plays scandalized Paris in the 1890s.

The book scandalized the British public upon its first publication, because it included the Christian story of Jesus in its comparative study, thus inviting an agnostic reading of the Lamb of God as a relic of a pagan religion.

This nude woman has scandalized the public, who see only her in the canvas.

But no one goes to the Louvre to be scandalized.

Trained in Western Scholastic theology, Barlaam was scandalized by hesychasm and began to combat it both orally and in his writings.

Always somewhat of a rebel, Prince Higashikuni's behavior in Paris scandalized the Imperial Court.