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Example sentences for: humiliation
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Not only is it full of cursing, ethnic jokes, prostitution, and the like, but it dares to have no laugh track and a bastard as the protagonist: "the show is truly subversive and daring in its scabrous attitude" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). A few minor complaints: 1) The show is "a little in love with its own transgressiveness" (James Poniewozik, Time ). 2) The show relies on "humiliation humor" and Entertainment Weekly 's Ken Tucker predicts that the unlikability of star Jay Mohr will sink the show.
If traditionalists sometimes sound bitter, it should not be something at which to wonder: From being called all sorts of unpleasant names, to overt discrimination, public humiliation, and ostracism, traditional Catholics have every reason to distrust and dislike the Vatican II apparatus.
Fortunately, I did not, but I suffered humiliation enough when my listener pointed out that the word was not pronounced sore-ee-AY-sis.
The conservatives predicted that this episode, too, would roll off Clinton's back (Robert Novak, Capital Gang ), as the president is now "beyond humiliation" (Charles Krauthammer, Inside Washington ). The smart money insisted that the case would end with a trial and not in a settlement.
The suicides tend to be respectables who've never previously been in any kind of trouble and are desperate to escape the impending humiliation, like the former Air Force pilot in Maine who asphyxiated himself, the University of Connecticut microbiologist who slashed his wrists, or the Colorado computer consultant who shot himself in the head.
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