| Selina was tired, she was cranky and she was becoming tired of her coach's belittlement. |
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| I expected something like a slap, or maybe some sort of words of belittlement. |
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| Concerning the psychological violence, it can be insults and especially belittlement and threats. |
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| Victory should inspire in an adversary a desire to do as well, without any feeling of belittlement. |
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| Making one's serostatus known may lead to belittlement in the eyes of others. |
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| Then, the psychological games and emotional belittlement began. |
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| Instead, it is a cry for recognition and a means of evading belittlement, or worse yet, the curse of not being noticed at all. |
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| Her voice was monotone, clearly not enjoying his belittlement. |
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| He has consistently rejected empty celebrity, and his belittlement in the aftermath of England's 2011 World Cup failure clearly cut deep. |
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| In the novel's third section, Zoe is forty, and the man who had seemed to her like a character out of a Russian novel — irascible, but strange and brilliant — has become her jailer, delighting in diligent belittlement. |
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| Needless to say, it was a rather confrontational process, liberally peppered with moments of anger, indignation, accusations, and even belittlement. |
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| Only a performance from the school of José Mourinho's self-assured arrogance or Joe Kinnear's obscenity packed rants would have prevented a public belittlement of Hodgson, the former Inter Milan and Liverpool coach. |
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| In a household where the father was verbally abusive to the mother, the client constructed an image of love that incorporated yelling, swearing, belittlement, and ridicule. |
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