I always found it hard to imagine Wilde in prison, but Eagleton realises him beautifully, full of humility and humiliation. |
The narratives repeat images of humiliation, brutality, and the sheer randomness of tragedy among people who have few allies and fewer options. |
The worst humiliation of contemporary religious life is the abjectness of needing God and a community badly enough even to sit through this. |
On her husband's death, a widow usually foresees a life full of harassment and humiliation. |
The Belgians in the Congo, the French in Algeria, practiced torture and sexual humiliation on despised recalcitrant natives. |
The Music Box is a perfect distillation of comic character, and it contains wheels within wheels of humiliation for our heroes. |