Their generation, I imagine, experienced the war more distantly as a disturbed era that ended in national humiliation. |
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Panic, rage, humiliation and fear raged through her as she realized what it meant. |
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He breathed shallowly trying to regain his breath, and let out a scream full of furry, hate, shame, humiliation, and pain. |
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No fictional account of human humiliation and shame can capture the frightening banality of the people's treatment at these checkpoints. |
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We were beside ourselves with rage and grief at the sufferings and humiliation of mankind. |
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And to attempt to sound dignified and saddened at being traduced by the ingrate just makes the humiliation complete. |
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Few of us walk into the office to a rain of boos or are subjected nightly to the possibility of public failure and humiliation. |
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Demoralising idleness and the humiliation of charity or relief work left the unemployed dispirited, apathetic, or divided. |
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Ministers had been ordered back from abroad and one MP told to leave his sickbed to avoid such humiliation. |
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If they were exposed to humiliation or embarrassment in front of their families or colleagues, so much the better. |
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The narratives repeat images of humiliation, brutality, and the sheer randomness of tragedy among people who have few allies and fewer options. |
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Their skinflint ways caused R. no small degree of humiliation during her growing years. |
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The Music Box is a perfect distillation of comic character, and it contains wheels within wheels of humiliation for our heroes. |
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On the other hand, the program of slave labor is described as an unending process of humiliation, harassment, maltreatment and crime. |
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This latest exercise in public humiliation is not the way to encourage musicianship. |
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The final humiliation was finding out that I, as dance director, would be required to sling hash. |
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But public humiliation has become taboo at work, indicting the humiliator more than the humiliated. |
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One wonders if the neocons even know how many are waiting in hopeful anticipation of their unhorsing and humiliation. |
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In his fury and humiliation at being unhorsed, he turned to meet the one who had brought him down, ready to make up for it. |
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I always found it hard to imagine Wilde in prison, but Eagleton realises him beautifully, full of humility and humiliation. |
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When he went to register the theft, four other tourists were already in line ahead of him, smarting over similar humiliation. |
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Anything less than three years would seem a disappointment, and to go now would be a humiliation. |
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I instantly forgot the humiliation of being unable to snowplough, the pressure of thinking I'd fail and questioning why I was even bothering. |
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In the Americas, the branks were a type of humiliation punishment, while in medieval Europe, they were used more as a torture device. |
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He said she had brought shame and humiliation on herself and had besmirched her good name. |
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If only for public humiliation, the police should post the names of johns arrested for solicitation. |
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My book has been described as proof of how the human spirit can survive in spite of uttermost humiliation. |
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This is the systematic vandalization and humiliation of one civilization by another with technological superiority. |
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Ancient Maori who ate their adversaries as an act of defilement or humiliation transformed the act into noa. |
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On her husband's death, a widow usually foresees a life full of harassment and humiliation. |
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Here is what I believe to be the vernacular understanding of the difference between shame, humiliation and embarrassment. |
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He has faced public humiliation and vilification with the same equanimity that he received public acknowledgement and praise. |
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Many others may not have been reported due to fear of dishonour, further humiliation or the high-handed dismissal of complaints. |
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To be hacking around in his company is to be handed the ultimate humiliation. |
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The humiliation and emotional deprivation suffered by the girls makes everyone else's horror school stories pale into insignificance. |
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Thus are we drawn into an endless life of humiliation, where we haggardly never turn off our televisions, for fear of disappearing. |
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He got up and stamped his feet in fury, pulling his hair in angry humiliation. |
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Abuse is designed to control and subjugate another person through fear, humiliation, and verbal put downs. |
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As a result the lovers had to suffer much heartache and humiliation before they could be together. |
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As the film progresses, a one-way process of the performance is firmly established, involving the humiliation of Judy as the stooge. |
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James, by contrast, has risen to a heady eminence which serves to further emphasize the humiliation of his sibling. |
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The Belgians in the Congo, the French in Algeria, practiced torture and sexual humiliation on despised recalcitrant natives. |
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I felt a lot of shame, embarrassment and humiliation, I lived with all that for years. |
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No one should have to suffer the awkwardness, pain, and humiliation of being an outcast, and I feel that it is terrible to wish it on anyone. |
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I said in a wishful small voice hoping she'll forgive me and save me the humiliation by just pointing to my desk. |
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Instead he was treated despicably and I hope whoever is nominated to take over will not have to go through that same sort of public humiliation. |
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The only way in which I can recuperate my humiliation is to turn it into an amusing anecdote that elicits laughter or sympathy. |
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Regarding the incident as one more humiliation in a degrading illness, I shuffled down the hall to a dirty, cramped toilet compartment. |
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A red card is then shown and the player has to leave the field, much to his or her humiliation. |
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The people of the country should be saved from the humiliation of a person of foreign origin holding the reins of power. |
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The next day, instead of ringing her and facing possible rejection and humiliation, he texts her. |
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The tool that Lady Macbeth uses to galvanize her husband into action is humiliation. |
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In order to raise funds for his dream school, he went about begging, singing, playing the fool and enduring humiliation for decades. |
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Roman troops experienced the humiliation of having to walk like slaves under a yoke of spears after their defeat at the Caudine Forks. |
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It is the strength of this desire that breeds his morbid dread of humiliation. |
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I don't know which I felt more, relief at having escaped a physical beating or humiliation over his verbal lashing. |
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For them, the general feeling of humiliation and powerlessness has materialized in a concrete way. |
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All these evoke the requisite themes of pain, humiliation, bondage and fetishism. |
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My parents cannot cope with the burden of humiliation in front of our relatives. |
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She felt the piercing sting of humiliation and her heart being broken and torn apart like some fragile letter. |
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As he scanned the dry, nearly infertile land, he felt a sense of humiliation. |
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Wildwood has three amusement piers, which is fun, but on this trip they all seemed designed specifically for my humiliation. |
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She should not have been allowed to shuffle off this mortal coil in pain, discomfort, humiliation and a fog of drugs. |
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The ritual humiliation and abuse begin immediately and rapidly threaten to spiral out of control. |
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To add extra indignity to his humiliation he is suffering from a bout of hiccups that threatens to enter the Guinness Book of Records. |
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Foreign rule, with all of its humiliation and indignity, is still a living memory. |
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Why can't a boy tug at America's heartstrings without facing petty locker-room humiliation from the viewing public? |
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The sharp sound of boot heels came from far away, approaching their barracks like some grim reaper, come to harvest their humiliation. |
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Some, rather than being simply indifferent to the well-being of others, have an urgent need to make others feel agony and humiliation. |
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With this new strength, the Romans defeated the Sabines, and began to recover their confidence after their late humiliation. |
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One had to take the heat and accept the humiliation of being abused and pushed around. |
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The Vera Icon clearly shows the humiliation and abjection of the incarnate Christ. |
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Hester Prynne, convicted of adultery, is taken from the prison and set on the scaffold in the town square for public humiliation. |
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Once she is coerced into signing adoption papers, she's bundled out of the way and into the convent to save her parents further humiliation. |
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But she proves with her TV show that there is no humiliation she will not endure to remain in the public eye. |
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One can only imagine the sheer tedium of their school days and the constant humiliation they will have to endure in class. |
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The English novelist responsible for the most scarifying account of literary humiliation ever put into print died a hundred years ago this month. |
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Why must poor drug offenders be subjected to public humiliation and incarceration? |
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Laurel and Hardy's best performances persuade you that humiliation is not all it's cracked up to be. |
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He was compelled to start negotiations, make peace, and suffer the humiliation of becoming vassal to the Turkish sultan. |
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She had been unable to cope with the humiliation of having to wear a worn out pair of tennis shoes to school. |
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Isn't humiliation on your own TV network, followed by an abject apology, enough? |
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The worst humiliation of contemporary religious life is the abjectness of needing God and a community badly enough even to sit through this. |
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The victims must know who heaped mountain upon mountain of injustice, ignominy and humiliation upon them. |
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The tales of rape, humiliation, physical and mental torture pour out until you want to cover your eyes and stop your ears. |
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Eventually, we learn that Monica is a mean, vicious vamp who places men under her power with a combination of humiliation and flabby thighs. |
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While some children thrive on competition, there is always a proportion who regard a three-legged race as public humiliation. |
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He was sharply aware of the pain of humiliation and dependency, the hatefulness and hurtfulness of paternalistic rule. |
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It bathes us in its own sad aura of humiliation, and makes us feel grimly disappointed. |
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Trying to hide my humiliation, I waltzed her over to the edge of the crowd and kept my back to them as long as I could. |
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By 1789 the confidence and prosperity of the country had been restored after the humiliation of the loss of the American colonies. |
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My own daily dose of exasperation and humiliation comes courtesy of Bandit, a three-year-old Dalmatian. |
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Whether or not there is a rational basis for their sense of humiliation is irrelevant. |
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Public humiliation was often a more powerful method of control than even the sequestration of an individual's money and property. |
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Despite the disgrace and humiliation which eventually befell him, he never wavered from his beliefs. |
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The following is my testimony of the greater humiliation and torture suffered by my fellow inmates. |
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With my need for coffee still a touch greater than my fear of humiliation, I popped the question. |
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Nowadays, with the mere mention of its name inducing mockery at Europe's top table, it performs the unheroic function of ensuring humiliation for smaller clubs and nations. |
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Moreover there is no evidence that public humiliation acts as a deterrent. |
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In a romantic relationship, facing humiliation or awkwardness is a strong possibility. |
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And using an acute accent instead of the correct grave accent is a poignant, pathetic reminder of the potential for humiliation that social climbers expose themselves to. |
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There are many members of the commentariat who seek not to help but to correct by humiliation. |
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He said his client became uncooperative at the police station after she was stopped from using the toilet and suffered the humiliation of wetting herself in front of officers. |
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It became the intellectual and emotional sign of opposition, rejecting racial humiliation, rebelling against domination and ultimately leading to revolution. |
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Baartman became a symbol of the humiliation and subjugation experienced by both the indigenous Khoisan and blacks under colonialism and then apartheid. |
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Right after saying this, he was taken indoors and told to recant, which he did publicly, an act of humiliation that reinforced his earlier comment. |
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And while Annie inflicts humiliation and degradation and withholds pain relief and food Paul is forced to write a new chapter every day simply to stay alive. |
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Seventeen and trembling on the brink of womanhood, she has already suffered the humiliation of being packed off as the poor relation with her rich cousins on holiday. |
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And here I am yapping about 70s interior design, my knowledge of which stems entirely from simplistic humiliation of a few Better Homes and Gardens design books. |
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If Warners does not accept the Hindu demands, the Hindu community will not be a silent spectator to the humiliation of its religious beliefs and scriptures. |
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As part of a greater show of strength and power, they might also incorporate verbal lashings into rituals of humiliation, made all the more painful by being staged in public. |
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His opponent, a year or two older but still barely a teenager, winces and, fighting back tears of humiliation, launches himself in a flurry of wheeling punches. |
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Elspeth Reeve on why the culture of humiliation and stigma makes matters worse. |
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The rage that people feel against their own mortality and animality is often enacted toward them, whether by humiliation or, in addition, by physical violence. |
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His eyes were flashing from humiliation, anger and probably pain. |
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But perhaps most damaging of all was the retelling of an act of humiliation on a female student. |
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Nothing says humiliation like having a group of kids roll their eyes and point at you, disappointed that your lanky body will be gracing their team. |
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Gwyneth had a frenemy once and was troubled at the joy she felt when this person suffered a terrible public humiliation. |
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Now this was asinine enough to get him some serious humiliation. |
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They came to Everett Mall to face the overwhelming pressure, cutthroat competition and public humiliation only an event of this magnitude can provide. |
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Nude prisoners were kept in a central area, and walked around as a form of humiliation. |
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And she prefers living with other women who understand the humiliation she went through. |
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Cato was not hurrying out of the world to escape an even more painful ending, but to avoid the humiliation of pardon. |
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Except that the ick factor keeps rising, along with the humiliation level for the embattled Democrat. |
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She is right that, for some, the stain of humiliation can indeed be irrevocable. |
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In case there were survivors, physical and mental humiliation would disable their witnessing power by instilling, as I have mentioned, an intolerable self-disgust. |
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No, it was a beard that bespoke a long and very public humiliation, and, then, a withdrawal from the klieg lights. |
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How man turns beastly to man as soon as you grant him an inch of power over his victim was very interesting, especially the power games and humiliation meted out. |
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If you have any doubts, contact your tour operator or travel agent before travelling and facing the humiliation of confiscation by airport security. |
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I was just filled up with so much shame, so much humiliation. |
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To fully feel the depth of the Russian humiliation, you would have to have witnessed the torque of its rev-up. |
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The scene is also a manifestation of her ultimate humiliation earlier in the film, when she gets her period in the school showers. |
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The thief looks at the unclothed, bruised and bloodied body of Jesus, hanging in pitiful humiliation, and sees his glorious Saviour and mighty King. |
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However, our appetite for public humiliation remains undiminished. |
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Grandpa would, in essence, teach me to be afraid, to understand the humiliation that awaited me if I dared shed tears or demonstrate some other unmanly behavior. |
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Kahn does not spare us his mother's humiliation at his father's hands. |
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His entire being got buttoned up with anger, despair and humiliation. |
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Although Thurman's character ultimately triumphs, the most memorable sequences by far involve her humiliation, subjection and abuse at the hands of three tormentors. |
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For a population that has been forced into a permanent subordinate position by an occupying power, this disparity is not only a hardship but a searing humiliation as well. |
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Now it seems Scotland is determined not to endure such humiliation again. |
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The King had to reinstate the Whigs, but he was at least spared the humiliation of creating new peers, as the Duke withdrew his opposition to the Reform Bill. |
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Nothing makes for taking you down a peg or two like public humiliation. |
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Three minutes after Hartson made it three, Petrov made it four and what was looking like a comprehensive victory started heading inexorably towards a humiliation. |
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How devastating for this young girl to have to now face the humiliation of having to admit to everyone that she had cheated, that she copied, that she'd merely plagiarized. |
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Yet despite this humiliation the senior magistrates remained in place, prime among them the first president, d' Aligre, by now Calonne's irreconcilable enemy. |
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In particular, psychologists find, employees are angered by curtness, surprise announcements, perceived unfairness, dishonesty and public humiliation. |
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Some cynics say the people who subject themselves to potential humiliation on celebrity shows are doing it in hopes of reviving collapsed careers. |
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The dizziness might be from the faint memory of my uneasy childhood, the memory of my gauche first love, or from the memory of every humiliation I have had. |
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Of course, the flip side of such promise is the potential for humiliation. |
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He nevertheless suffered humiliation and rage at the climate of censoriousness within which he worked. |
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RuneScape is the most popular free browser-based MMORPG in the world, so the humiliation of 'Botany Bay' is very public indeed. |
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Conversely, they made the honour of the Other into a supreme mitsvah, the opposite of humiliation of the face of the Other. |
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Edward was forced to submit to his banishment, and the humiliation may have caused a series of strokes which led to his death. |
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But the rest of the guests were a ghasty bunch and poor Mary's pathetic attempts at ingratiation ended in humiliation. |
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The rivers and purulence and tumors of shame all meet up, forming a sea of humiliation, incapacity, disappointment and madness. |
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He handed Attalus over to Honorius's regime for mutilation, humiliation, and exile, and abandoned Attalus's supporters. |
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And so usual a thing it is for gracious hearts to be humbled under the afflictings of God, that affliction is upon that score called humiliation. |
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Completely non-sexual the only potential threat lay in the possibility of humiliation when the gummily grinning subject was a teenager. |
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The humiliation of the Hill-Thomas hearings was still too fresh for them. |
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That nightmarish sweaty-palmed humiliation is nothing compared with trying stand-up comedy for the first time. |
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A good start, a strong finish, but it was a Scotland horror show in the middle as the team flirted with Rugby World Cup humiliation. |
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Talk with those here who vainly seek work, who suffer daily the humiliation of emptyhandedness. |
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Barry sounded lighter, his spirits lifting slightly from the shell shocking humiliation and helplessness he'd been feeling. |
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A shanda is humiliation and embarrassment one's misdeed suffers upon one's family. In our faith, a shanda is a terrible sin. |
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To avert the humiliation of a successful discharge petition, Chairman Smith relented and allowed the bill to pass through the Rules Committee. |
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Political power was reinforced by military power, and the capture and humiliation of enemy warriors played an important part in elite culture. |
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The public humiliation of his daughter led Afonso IV to have his son and heir, Peter, marry the no less aggrieved Castilian infanta, Constanza. |
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For the English, the inability of their navy and nearby coastal forts such as Deal Castle to intervene was a humiliation. |
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Physical suffering and humiliation were considered appropriate retributive justice for the crimes they had committed. |
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To her humiliation Jessamy found there were tears trickling down her cheeks. |
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However, the humiliation of the Suez Crisis of 1956 badly hurt morale of Britain and the Commonwealth as a whole. |
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The more he heard of fumbled passes, cidery kisses and snapped straps, the more he knew better than to risk such humiliation. |
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After the humiliation of the Day of the Barricades, Henry III fled from Paris. |
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At this point, we could all write a tell-all about our tabloid childhoods and contrive an autobiographical performance about the pleasures of humiliation. |
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That involved a highly aggressive nationalism that led to a series of wars, an alliance with Hitler's Germany, and humiliation and hardship in the Second World War. |
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At uniform intervals round the base of the pedestal, four naked figures in chains, somewhat larger than life, are seated in various attitudes of humiliation and despair. |
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The eroticizing of roles provides the characters with motivation to fulfill those roles, even when those roles require them to relinquish power or submit to humiliation. |
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Once the discovery of the undead Anne is made, the action becomes frenetic, as Kugel blunders like a hagridden Basil Fawlty from humiliation to disgrace. |
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She was about to be sick right here in front of them all. That would be the worst humiliation imaginable. Mustn't cast up my accounts, mustn't cast up my accounts. |
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The entire order, indeed, and the very institution itself, received a further humiliation by the elevation of a ruptuary, Raoul, a goldsmith, to the honors of nobility. |
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The humiliation of the Treaty of Falaise triggered a revolt in Galloway which lasted until 1186, and prompted construction of a castle at Dumfries. |
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First, it should appear to be a part of the site and not a foreign element set up boxwise on edge to the utter humiliation of every natural thing in sight. |
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A piece of brass may as easily melt, or a flint bewater itself, as the heart of man, by any innate power of its own, resolve itself into a penitential humiliation. |
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