The power of negative learning is that function of an individual being forced to change and learn by reaching a nadir of despair. |
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This night was historic in that there are certain moments in a critic's life when one sinks to a spectacular low, a new nadir. |
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He insisted that an international nadir had been reached, and that performances must improve immediately. |
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The situation reached its nadir in March after he hurt his shoulder moving luggage. |
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Things reached a nadir when his management team sent him to hospital for a psychiatric assessment. |
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It reached a pathetic nadir in the quarter-finals of the 2003 World Cup in Melbourne, when South Africa played New Zealand. |
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But just as I had reached the nadir of my despair, I caught a glimpse of a picture up on my wall. |
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With hindsight, this was a life in hiding, which reached its nadir long after her husband died of a brain tumour. |
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This biographical detail is often imagined to be his nadir, but the truth is that he had passed that point. |
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The performance in Atlanta, when the 304-strong squad won just one gold medal and 15 in total, was a nadir for British sport. |
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I think our dual roles reached a nadir one morning when she watched me get out of the bath. |
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The nadir came when his brother, Perdiccas III, died in battle against Illyrian invaders, who occupied the north-western borderlands. |
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Thankfully, it's also the absolute nadir of the album at large, so everything else comes up roses by comparison. |
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The force of contraction declines slightly as it advances, reaching a nadir at about the level where the muscle becomes smooth muscle. |
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Changes in architectural style and building technology brought brownstone to its zenith and nadir in a very short period of time. |
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Getting out of that situation was the absolute nadir of my barefaced lying career. |
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As noted in these articles, at the moment when interest in classics is at its nadir in the schools, it is all the rage in popular entertainment. |
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With essential resources at a nadir, the Valparai plateau with its perennial streams obviously attracts elephant herds. |
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Maybe last season, with a one-horse race at the top and bottom marked the nadir. |
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Higgins's megalomania reached its nadir one night when he flagged down a police car and demanded to be given a lift to his destination. |
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Then there is the social phobic's nadir, Christmas, to deal with. |
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The top-dress was fed before feeding as ruminal starch is at a nadir and amylolytic capacity is expected to be low. |
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The point of the celestial sphere associated to this direction is the zenith of the location, the point diametrically opposite is the nadir. |
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It's Frank Underwood from House of Cards in song form Hopefully, though, this is a nadir. |
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The nadir was George Osborne's disastrous budget, which unravelled over many excruciating weeks for the government. |
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At this nadir of her career Cesaria looked to be facing a bleak and tragic future. |
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The time to nadir was 4 to 7 weeks and the duration of cytopenias was approximately 30 days. |
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He said he thought the crisis itself had passed its nadir, although to avert new dangers renewed global financial regulation was needed. |
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A number of folk tunes fetch even deeply rooted emotions, entangled in the nadir of our souls. |
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You know you've reached a new nadir in cable news when a station invites actors who play investigators on telly to comment on the sniper's tactics. |
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The Aussie form touched the nadir against the lowly Indians who almost held them for a draw, which would have denied Australia a place in the final. |
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He had in fact returned from the nadir of alcoholism and addiction. |
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The relationship reaches its nadir when Francis, afraid that she is about to be shipped off to military school, shoots her father with his government issue sidearm. |
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In 1933, in the nadir of the Great Depression, a young forester named Robert Marshall proposed a bold new socialist paradigm for managing the nation's timberlands. |
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The stock market has gone nuts, more than doubling since its March 2009 nadir. |
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Worse even than what I consider his nadir thus far, the 2011 debt-ceiling fiasco. |
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However, the nadir of his married life was when Rather just barely remembered to call his wife on her birthday. |
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That ratio represents an improvement from the nadir of the recession, when there were 5.5 job seekers for every vacancy. |
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If a planet culminates, sets or is on the nadir at the same time that a star occupies one of the sacred earth-generated angles, then that star walks with that planet. |
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Plus, this sorry excuse for a show represents a sort of cultural nadir when it comes to reality television. |
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A misguided foray into middle-eastern politics, it may well be their lyrical nadir, their trademark synth-pop swamped in a hideous 80s production. |
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This nadir of knowledge that some monoglots descend to deserves our pity, be they speakers of English, French, German or whatever. |
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The Progressive Conservatives had rebounded modestly from the nadir of 1993 but their strength was concentrated mainly in Atlantic Canada. |
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The Home Office has defended its decision to end British support for search-and-rescue operations for migrants in danger of drowning in the Mediterranean, after criticism that it marked an ethical nadir for Britain. |
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The debt debacle of 2011 was far and away the nadir of his first term. |
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Comic nadir is reached in a story about his being mistaken for an escaped baboon while out jogging in the Provençal woods, on the grounds of the extreme hairiness of his nether regions. |
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Relations reached their nadir when a reporter revealed the arrangements for his wedding last week to Anastasia Shirley, a make-up artist whom he met on the set of Cracker. |
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The bomber's ascent brought about the fighters' nadir. |
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The nadir was working as a parking attendant. |
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The national financial crisis reached its nadir in February 1797, when the Bank of England stopped redeeming its bills for gold. |
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From 1499 to 1528, the Republic reached its nadir, being under nearly continual French occupation. |
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The Yeltsin phase may well be nearing its nadir prior to final exit. |
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In the Horn of Africa, the 2005-2006 drought was the nadir of a series of bad years, and particularly affected the semi-arid and arid lands where cultivation is marginal. |
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The shapes of wooded areas and farm fields are easier to recognize in the foreground because it is closer to a nadir view angle and is at a larger scale. |
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The sleazoid summer of '00 ends, appropriately, with the nadir of foulmouthed shock movies. |
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The moment of highest tide is not necessarily when the Moon is nearest to zenith or nadir, but the period of the forcing still determines the time between high tides. |
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