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  • He did not want a repeat performance of the humiliating defeat he had suffered.
  • Angry Reader has a point about "spill," and while I can see Joel's point about it being what people call it, I respectfully suggest that it's that logic which got us to the point where we called chaining people to walls, beating them, freezing them, blasting music and noise at them at decibel levels high enough to inflict pain, electrifying their genitals, humiliating them and then drowning them repeatedly "enhanced interrogation techniques. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
  • He was caught cheating during the Seoul Olympics and humiliatingly stripped of his title.
  • It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect. Nathaniel Branden 
  • The assistant chief watched as she was forced to reclean toilets and showers and was then punished further by being ordered to clean long-neglected storage rooms, light fixtures, and so on, in an ever-lengthening list of humiliating chores. Getting Even
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  • It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect. Nathaniel Branden 
  • And when the only fate awaiting them is torture, death becomes the other less humiliating option.
  • He received a humiliating rebuff from his manager.
  • If we've ever had internal conflicts about cheating or wanting to cheat, had sexual longings for or experiences with someone of the same sex, imagined being with a prostitute or had pedophilic fantasies, watched porn or coveted a neighbor's husband or wife, we're going to be drawn -- in guilty fascination or fearful hostility -- to public disclosures of both forbidden sexual behavior and it's humiliating confession. Michael Bader, D.M.H.: Everything Said About Anthony Weiner Is Bull
  • The putting on of the muff was the most humiliating incident of my life. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography
  • At the last General Election, they suffered a crushing/humiliating defeat.
  • For fear, of all the humiliating reasons, of losing out on exclusive interviews with any future nationally reviled guests. TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
  • A true sociopath, he takes great glee in humiliating and injuring the inmates.
  • In response to a humiliating defeat, Egypt began realigning itself to gain U.S. support.
  • The above appears to be a deliberate distortion of an event in the 19th Century, the battle of Adwa, where Ethiopians handed a humiliating defeat to the Italians. Archive 2007-02-01
  • Scotland suffered a humiliating hiding in this international friendly at Hampden Park today.
  • The humiliating injury is called obstetric fistula, a tear in the tissue between the vagina and adjoining organs, caused by prolonged labor in small, undernourished women-and now almost unknown outside the poorest countries of Africa and Asia. NCBlogs
  • After a humiliating false start in Germany's super - secret underground beer competition, America's unlikely team vows to risk life, limb and liver to dominate the ultimate chug-a-lug championship.
  • If it is the case that Wanderers can, as their manager maintains, put such a humiliating defeat behind them then the White Hart Lane walloping could indeed prove a blessing in disguise.
  • The Free Democrats FDP, junior coalition partners in Berlin but only an opposition party in Schwerin, face a humiliating defeat in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Merkel's coalition faces rough ride in regional election
  • More humiliating, still, is the fact that Ralston doesn't save a cent by demoting him.
  • They return to their former ways, though perhaps in newly clandestine associations such as the murky and much feared paramilitary demobilisation, Medellín - and Colombia - are now presented with a worrying remobilisation. blows: desertions, the cross-border killing of commander Raúl Reyes at his camp in Ecuador and the death of co-founder Manuel Marulanda, and the humiliating rescue of its most high-profile prisoner Open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
  • Nye described her experience that day as humiliating.
  • In spite of the humiliating needlework, I kept going back again and again to the Harrises' porch that summer.
  • He did not want a repeat performance of the humiliating defeat he had suffered.
  • The brand might be no mark of honour at all - but a culminating cruel humiliating jape.
  • Its metaphoric origin is either in “to pour cream over, thus humiliating” or in “to remove the cream from, thus leaving a thin milk” today regarded as desirably low-fat, which is why the locution is on the decline. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
  • In humiliating contrast, one of China's few tangible rewards involved the set of Qing-dynasty instruments for observing the heavens-among them a Jesuit-designed quadrant, celestial globe and armilla-mentioned above. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
  • Newcastle beach has suffered a humiliating snub from a leading teacher's union.
  • Being a bridesmaid is not the epitome of the female experience, but I'd put it right up there as one of the most humiliating aspects. I don't know what to make of this.
  • The government suffered a humiliating defeat in yesterday's debate.
  • One speaker justified Southern secession by urgent considerations of necessity and safety; another scouted the idea of coercing a seceding State; to a third, peaceful separation, though painful and humiliating, seemed the only safe and honourable way. A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
  • Both suitors seem confident that marriage to a shrew would prove even more humiliating than submitting to the pillory or a public whipping.
  • He was taking an unholy delight in humiliating Sarah.
  • Sexual harassment is quite common in schools and can be humiliating and frightening.
  • Labour's Dan Jarvis, a former paratroop major, won an overwhelming share of the vote but on an abysmal turnout of 36.5% which left the coalition partners with humiliatingly low figures. Humiliated Lib Dems come sixth in Barnsley Central byelection
  • The media have documented a string of monstrous cases in which prosthetic breasts have been exposed and urostomy bags worn by bladder-cancer patients have been disconnected, with humiliating consequences. The TSA Is Keeping the Skies Safe
  • The performances were as cartoonishly ridiculous as men with humiliating hair saying portentous things to a 'green screen' generally are. Times, Sunday Times
  • The paper was forced to publish a humiliating front page apology for the fiasco the following day.
  • He could smartly whip through my belongings before the inevitable descent of mad-eyed relatives, removing anything humiliating and safely squirrelling away anything of potential historical import.
  • You are already in humiliating extra screening, where the officers had had the right to strip-search you even before the scanners were proposed. See-through body scanners are not as bad as they sound : Law is Cool
  • If you poke them a bit (and maybe buy them a few drinks), many academics will confess to sometimes feeling like impostors perennially threatened with humiliating exposure.
  • They inflicted a humiliating defeat on the home team.
  • Dobrynin recounted Nixon’s threatening words in his report to the Kremlin: The president said he will never (Nixon twice emphasized that word) accept a humiliating defeat or humiliating terms. The Nukes of October « Isegoria
  • When Rory McIlroy choked in the final round of the US Masters two months ago, throwing away a four-stroke lead and finishing tied for 15th place after a humiliating round of 80, the golf obituarists were instantly on his case. In praise of … Rory McIlroy | Editorial
  • Some reluctance to recall tragical or humiliating scenes, and, by thus recalling to endure them, in some sense, Jane Talbot
  • Dick Morris, the president's political adviser and hymnist to "" family values, '' got caught in a humiliating sexual scandal and was back in business as a successful independent contractor almost at once. Just Send Us The Bill
  • By humiliating others, a person gains an illusory sense of worth and importance.
  • The offer will not mean a humiliating hand over of rifles, machine guns or explosives.
  • He took sadistic pleasure in humiliating her.
  • The EU dropped a humiliating demand that Turkey initial the pact immediately on December 17.
  • I opened my mouth to unreel a string of reasons why that was unnecessary, humiliating, and impossible. Silver Zombie
  • A strip search will always be unreasonable if it is carried out abusively or for the purpose of humiliating or punishing the arrestee.
  • the painting was reproduced humiliatingly small
  • The company narrowly avoided a humiliating defeat over executive pay. Times, Sunday Times
  • Humiliatingly, he could feel himself going scarlet as he realized that his lisp had slipped out of control again. DEATH IN FASHION
  • The cravings of his heart in this respect are evident, we think, throughout his career; and if we have dwelt with more significancy than others upon his intercourse with the beautiful Horneck family, it is because we fancied we could detect, amid his playful attentions to one of its members, a lurking sentiment of tenderness, kept down by conscious poverty and a humiliating idea of personal defects. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
  • It's humiliating to celebrate an eighth-place finish in the luge.
  • As reported by Ugandan LGBT advocate Julius Kaggwa, "LGBT_ Ugandans endure verbal insults, physical and sexual harassment, arbitrary arrests and torture, and humiliating publicity. Paul LeGendre: Planned Rally Could Inflame Intolerance Against Ugandan LGBTI Community
  • They are met at the courthouse door by a squadron of court officers who proceed to subject them to a humiliating search.
  • With national dignity surging in his bosom, Wu flatly turned down the humiliating demand put forward by Montigny.
  • The weirder, the wackier, the more humiliating, the better," Neff tells TVGuide.com. Raising Hope's Lucas Neff Ready for the Weird, the Wacky and the Humiliating in Season 2
  • 'What makes this all the more humiliating is that we should have seen it coming. The Sun
  • And now and then was to be heard from the whole collection of human beings a heavy sigh, after which the humiliating old man would cough shamelessly, and Miss Marchmont hinnied like a horse. Jacob's Room
  • It is also a war strategy aimed at humiliating the enemy men by showing they are unable to protect their women.
  • But it was not likely that he had reference to the kind of anguish that comes with destitution, that is so endlessly bitter and cruel, and yet so sordid and petty, so ugly, so humiliating -- unredeemed by the slightest touch of dignity or even of pathos. The Jungle
  • Then Drona, desirous of humiliating king Drupada, called together his disciples and addressed them, 'Ye sinless ones, it behoveth you, after you have been accomplished in arms, to give me as preceptorial fee something that I cherish in my heart.' The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
  • But to have passed over Pakistan would have been a humiliating snub to a strategically important regional power that Washington needs to engage.
  • This was the most distressingly unpleasant and humiliating experience of my life that didn't involve medical staff.
  • Truslove will be mugged on the way home from the party — all the more humiliatingly when he discovers that the mugger is a woman — and his experience and perspective will be central to the narrative. A Comedy of Anti- and Philo-Semitism Takes a Prize
  • She knew she had me, that there was no escape and that the weekend that followed would be torment and humiliating.
  • He wants to break our will so that we will accept his humiliating conditions.
  • It was so humiliating, a terrible blow to my self-esteem.
  • But while the San Jose Bike Party involves thousands of people acting ridiculously en masse, Portlanders prefer to sort of "atomize" their rides by humiliating themselves in highly specific ways. BSNYC Road Dairy: Last Stop Portland
  • The Roberts Report, which commits the Tories to yet another full-scale review of devolution, is personally humiliating for Nick Bourne who has spent the last decade trying to convince us all that the Tories really have changed. Blood on their hands
  • The flub cost him a full second, and he never got it back, finishing a humiliating 16th, 1.71 seconds off the pace.
  • After a humiliating job interview and a nearly lethal trip to the welfare office, Dude goes to see his Uncle Dave.
  • I had to apologize in front of everyone - it was so humiliating.
  • The story begins with a different kind of water-- Jill's hot, humiliating tears, as she sits "blubbing" behind the gym where she has sought refuge from Them, the school bullies. Archive 2007-01-01
  • I have suffered from the humiliating and tormenting memories of this summer as from a bout of madness - what I indicated in Basle and in my last letter concealed the most essential thing.
  • a heavy sigh, after which the humiliating old man would cough shamelessly, and Miss Marchmont hinnied like a horse. Jacob's Room
  • Let us not delight in making others squirm by humiliating or embarrassing them in public.
  • Whatever the difficulties were with cross-service coordination, many people saw it as a healthy departure from the humiliating withdrawal from Vietnam.
  • The results of the poll dealt a humiliating rebuff to Mr Jones.
  • It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect. Nathaniel Branden 
  • There can be few more humiliating sights than a British prime minister ingratiating himself with his French and German counterparts.
  • Sexuality and sexual conquest, after all, can be experienced by men as humiliating and stressful as well as thrilling.
  • Most of their affectionate banter borders on the painful humiliating putdown, with Jamie loving to imitate Paul's manic mannerisms behind his back.
  • He was trapped, there was no way the commitments could be reduced without humiliating admissions of defeat.
  • They forecast a humiliating defeat for the Prime Minister.
  • The citizens of Tours spoke of him as "an eccentric," but he was greatly annoyed when the term reached his ears, for, good Gascon that he was, and proud of himself, body and mind, he felt that it was singularly humiliating to be treated with so little respect. Honore de Balzac
  • Unrepentant, he was submitted to humiliating treatment with hormones to avoid going to prison.
  • BDSM is not about humiliating another person for your own self-esteem. Archive 2007-08-01
  • Lucy, his treatment must have been galling and humiliating; for it so wrought upon his spirit as to produce a rough pasquinade, which was affixed to the park gate at Charlecot. 43 43 The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
  • After a humiliating pasting at the Ayr by-election earlier this year, where they didn't just lose the MSP seat but slumped into third place, one would have thought Labour would have been keen to draw a veil over a memorably inept campaign.
  • True, it would represent a humiliating surrender to some of the most reactionary yahoos in American society.
  • It was a swift response to a disappointing, perhaps humiliating, day for the brothers.
  • Like the king, Page had a strong advocate: a coach who helped him as a teen win second-place in a speech contest after a humiliatingly bad performance the previous year.
  • For the best part of two decades, the music industry had no idea what to do with Johnny Cash, and no concept was considered too ill-suited or humiliating.
  • Yet again Shirley Henderson shines in a supporting role, her amazing use of a washed-out pale blue hoodie managing to convey her rage and pain after a humiliating break-up of her own.
  • I personally think the practice is insulting and humiliating, especially in a business setting.
  • As soon as you make a nervous slip, he explodes with anger - humiliating you in front of colleagues.
  • He was caught cheating during the Seoul Olympics and humiliatingly stripped of his title.
  • The battle ended in a humiliating defeat.
  • He found the experience utterly humiliating.
  • It was really so incredibly humiliating.
  • An attentive consideration will, however, show the enquirer, that to distinguish man from the remainder of the animal kingdom by his structural characteristics alone, is not so easy a task as would at first sight appear; and he will be obliged at length to return to some such humiliating designation of the _genus animal_, _species homo_, as those above given. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
  • In the Fifties, radiant heating using hot water pipes embedded in concrete floor slabs made a promising entrance - and a humiliating exit after leaks required countless slabs to be jackhammered up for repair.
  • With regard to these wretched, horrible, bloody lumps of caramel gunge, he had constructed a whole covert, hidden, humiliating world of pretence and lies, sneaking around pharmacies and stores to find his fix, inventing a serious disease for himself to cover an addiction as compelling and overpowering as if it had been heroin that enslaved him. Portobello
  • Admittedly that's wishful thinking on our part, since a half Chris Brown / half Rihanna baby would be bound by genetics to have a head shaped exactly like an alien prawn, a set of teeth that looks like a ceramic shotgun wound and the world's most humiliating bumfluff moustache. Hecklerspray
  • They inflicted a humiliating defeat on the home team.
  • In June 1667, England suffered a humiliating defeat by the Dutch.
  • They hire a posey choreographer with humiliating results.
  • The grocery shopping was the most humiliating part of the trip.
  • The captain offered no excuses for his team's humiliating defeat .
  • Since nobody else had been found, Hayling offered Thornton the Chairmanship, but the executive attached two humiliating conditions.
  • Cabin staff and passengers alike witnessed the degrading and humiliating scene of the women being dragged the full length of the cabin.
  • We would be made to do all the usual humiliating routines of trying to climb the ropes, balance on beams, hang upside down on the wall bars and on occasion, vault over a ‘horse’ or ‘buck’.
  • He went to work on the President, telling him that to retreat now would be to accept humiliating defeat.
  • She uses it rather vindictively, humiliating him, dressing him up in a woman's dress.
  • But if he's captured in a humiliating or degrading way, it may discourage people from joining the movement.
  • As far as I am aware, humiliating your colleagues in public is not the best way to foster team spirit.
  • All this is represented by his humiliating situation of wearing a dress.
  • Llwelyn was forced into a humiliating surrender that included relinquishing control over the eastern part of his territory and an acknowledgment of fealty paid to Edward I annually.
  • Later she overheard her supervisor bragging about this humiliating order to others.
  • He was probably looking at begging or some completely humiliating further life. Times, Sunday Times
  • After a humiliating false start in Germany's super - secret underground beer competition, America's unlikely team vows to risk life, limb and liver to dominate the ultimate chug-a-lug championship.
  • It had been a humiliating day for Flora and she bore the director a grudge in consequence.
  • As a kid, nothing is more humiliating than getting a wedgie from the school yard bully. Kids Invent Wedgie-Proof Underwear | Impact Lab
  • The Opium War, also called the Anglo-Chinese War, was the most humiliating defeat China ever suffered.
  • Sitting on a step became very uncomfortable for it's hardness, and I'd got gas after the first couple of hours and had to sit with my butt-cheeks clenched throughout the drawn out, humiliating ordeal. Potsdamer Strasse
  • But it's a foolish editor these days who overdoes the retouch and attracts the type of humiliating roasting that GQ magazine suffered at the hands of Kate Winslet over a 2003 cover shoot. Body Image Is More Than Skin Deep
  • Can even our Ministers sustain a more humiliating disgrace?
  •  One Activision Keystone Kapers cartridge for Atari 2600, borrowed by you, claimed lost, $19.99; one baseball bat shattered in anger, without apology after humiliating strikeout, $7.99; one green swordtail fish, leapt to its death after you opened aquarium lid, chased it with net, $0.79. Thinly Sliced Raw Fish
  • It would be humiliating for her ladyship and infuriating for her. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Zaichenko said that UNA-UNSO activists were planning to hold the protest due to the fact that such a church service "is very similar to the coronation of a vassal, which is humiliating for Ukrainians. Www.kyivpost.com
  • At the last General Election, they suffered a crushing/humiliating defeat.
  • She felt raw all over from the humiliating experience of being scrubbed with a cold car wash brush in the decon tent. Dark Oracle
  • ‘It is humiliating to see people reeling around dead drunk on a Friday or Saturday night,’ she says.
  • My wife had to wash me like a child, which felt degrading and humiliating.
  • Humiliatingly, he could feel himself going scarlet as he realized that his lisp had slipped out of control again. DEATH IN FASHION
  • In her article, Dreaming of a Pink Christmas, Ball considers how toys are "still unbelievably segregated along strict gender lines" to the extent that 'femaleness' is seen as "humiliating for boys. Thinking Pink
  • They make dramatic, often humiliating, appearances at their lover's home or workplace, then *storm out, only to return to berate or plead anew.
  • I want to wake up to a world where people stop humiliating others for their religious beliefs, and/or carreers, and begin to trat this bigotry with as much attention as they do the color of ones skin. Self-Employed Work-at-Home Contractors?
  • Women's Bodies, shows what she calls grotesque, vulgar and humiliating creatures, with inflated silicone bodies, oozing out of plunging necklines, tottering on stiletto heels. NPR Topics: News
  • I suspect those who succeed in humiliating people this way probably deserve to be single and shut in their boxy homes watching DVDs while growing fat on ice cream.
  • The great mass of Christian people remain complacent, unaware both that the position of the Church in contemporary society is humiliating and that the cause of that humiliation is their own timid compromise with a secularism inconsistent with tenets the holding and advancement of which are the Church's chief reason for being … Finding a Place for God
  • It was decidedly humiliating to be "jollied" in such a manner; but Paul found he could not hold his own with Frank, and he finally gave up the struggle. Frank Merriwell's Races
  • The Chancellor was forced into a humiliating climbdown on his economic policies.
  • The onus of humiliating reverses was also cast on a supposedly finicking, too easily exhausted, and sometimes unreliable ‘native force’.
  • They inflicted a humiliating defeat on the home team.
  • These humiliating fiascoes set the media off clucking and carping.
  • It's grossly invasive and humiliating, an insult to the dignity of any person.
  • Soon they were joined by many soldiers who judged the agreement humiliating.
  • Humiliating public statements are associat-ed exclusively with the signatories 'rise, not fall. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  • She washes - humiliatingly, since she is a modest and dignified woman - at a stand-pipe in the yard shared with her neighbours.
  • ‘It exposed a level of degrading and humiliating treatment of elderly people that should not be tolerated in this or any other society,’ he said.
  • He did not want a repeat performance of the humiliating defeat he had suffered.
  • Time for a huge pot of coffee, loads of toast; time for another humiliating picture from my radio days.
  • Undeserved appellations and humiliating epithets divest him of his self-esteem.
  • Imperialism depended on dominating, humiliating and exploiting others, and on drawing artificial boundaries for European strategic purposes.
  • A story circulated quite recently that a leading British professional, who will remain nameless to preserve his reputation, once suffered the indignity of a humiliating beating while at school - against the spectacled class boffin.
  • Robert, who has had glimpses of him, says the 'flunkeyism' is quite humiliating. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • And the manner in which political manhood gets displayed is tiresomely predictable: macho chest beating, posing with the fetish objects of anxious masculinity (trucks, big machines, and even bigger weapons), humiliating your opponent with castrating insults, calling into question his or her ability to be tough, ruthless, and merciless with the designated enemy of the moment -- in short, phallic strutting. Stephen Ducat: Revenge of the Wimp Factor: The Ironies of Proving Manhood in the Democratic Primary
  • Defeat at the hands I use the term figuratively of a box full of silicon and wires wastoo humiliating for Kasparov, a man who had never lost a multigame match against an individual opponent in his life! I’m Working on That
  • Her father's alcoholism plunged the family into poverty so humiliating that Dolly was farmed out to various generous strangers for upbringing.
  • The boys could not be angry at that, she knew, because the greatest disgrace that can befall a herder is the losing of his flock, and for boys so big as these to go back to the sæter without any animals would be especially humiliating. Lisbeth Longfrock
  • At issue is whether Congress will support the president's desire to clarify what's known as Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which outlaws what they call outrages upon personal dignity and humiliating and degrading treatment. CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2006
  • Catastrophe - I am so disappointed," blubbed Jovanovic, who will forever remember his first Liverpool goal as the catalyst for one of the most humiliating defeats in the club's history. Honourable loser schtick; and Ranieri
  • He had made a humiliating tactical error and he had to go.
  • The battle ended in a humiliating defeat.
  • I know tact is difficult for you, but kindly refrain from humiliating me further.
  • Samatar has gone through four secondary searches, which he described as demeaning and humiliating. News & Features from Minnesota Public Radio
  • It was only one game - one nightmarish, awful, humiliating, cringe-making, hide-behind-the-sofa, please-stop-now game.
  • This requires flexibility and upper-body strength, neither of which I had, and it was generally humiliating, especially when we had to grovel on the ground doing ‘power moves’.
  • This humiliating immobilization reduces humans to the status of monsters. Gregory Sholette: Artist Shows Supermax Prisons Supercruel
  • The decay of the military, resulting from decreased funding and the spread of corruption (both of which Yeltsin abetted: he had no interest in maintaining or strengthening an institution that was at best lukewarm toward his rule), was popularly perceived to have led to Russia's humiliating defeat during the first Chechen war, in 1994-1996. Russia Is Finished
  • I knew I blacked out a lot and I did humiliating things.
  • The party suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election.
  • Such an apology was always humiliating, and usually painful, but what made her shiver was the chance of being denied death at the end, of being forced to continue as if nothing had occurred while everyone, common as well as the Blood, knew her degradation. The Shadow Rising
  • Being abused is the humiliating situation for both men and women so do not endure this punishment.
  • We always hoped that we would not catch those infections that were found rather humiliating because they were considered the problems of ‘dirty children’ - ringworm, impetigo, worms and nits in the hair.
  • I got me to a flophouse, but it was a long, excruciatingly painful, and humiliating journey, let me tell you. METAPLANETARY
  • Both suitors seem confident that marriage to a shrew would prove even more humiliating than submitting to the pillory or a public whipping.
  • Just as humiliating for the Royal family will be the revelations that Prince Saud bin Abdulaziz bin Nasir al Saud, who is King Abdullah's grandson, is homosexual," wrote Sholto Byrnes in the British newsweekly The New Statesman. Saudi Prince Allegedly Killed Servant After Gay Sex Attack At London Hotel
  • But in the intervening years, the State Department's refusal to press for reform in that country turned into humiliating obsequiousness.
  • The bishop has been forced into a humiliating retreat after endorsing a booklet by Stephen Green, the foghorn from Christian Voice. Hugh Muir's diary
  • Then followed the confusing and confounding impressions of the landing, where the great nation, compelled by experience, seems to guard itself against the instreaming invasion of undesired elements, and investigates and selects with humiliating, apparently heartless strictness, as though we were animals to be examined. The Bride of Dreams
  • It is a very big step and a humiliating backdown.
  • In his stiff-necked pride, Mr. Burroughs runs a hazard more humiliating to that pride than any amount of kinship with the other animals. The Other Animals
  • Even the word contradict implies a civilized disagreement “Father, I beg to differ with you” as opposed to the humiliating public showdowns many of us have experienced. THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE
  • Humiliating, inept, woeful, pitiful - the number of adjectives to describe City's performance could run and run.
  • The Conservatives have suffered a humiliating defeat.
  • Hurling homophobic epithets has become the prime means of harassing and humiliating any student - gay or straight - who is seen as vulnerable.
  • The crucifixion of the two robbers with Jesus was a sort of topstone of obloquy and disgrace contrived by His murderers with the double object of further humiliating Him in the eyes of the people, and of adding poignancy to His own agony. Our Master Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord
  • Turkey in the wake of a humiliating and high-profile dressing-down given to Israel on Wednesday after the latest in a series of tiffs, this one over the public embarrassment of the Israel on Tuesday over what it called the discourteous treatment of its WN.com - Articles related to Turkey and Kingdom call on Israel to halt settlements
  • Her three teammates piggybacked her to the next checkpoint. "It was pretty humiliating," she said.
  • It remains unclear why Askar Akaev decided to leave under such humiliating circumstances.
  • Aside from having to write what she regarded as a humiliating letter, Pickford was insecure, and happiest when being jollied along by an ebullient director like Marshall Neilan. Empire of Dreams
  • That first Chechen war ended in humiliating defeat for the Russian forces in 1996.

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