For example, in the "Nudge" scheme, signs on men's and women's restrooms would count as paternalistic "choice architecture" simply because they structure choices in a way that helps us do what's best by our own lights—in this case, not mortifying ourselves barging into the wrong restroom.
There was little doubt that had the Supreme Court overturned his reform, it would have been mortifying.
But to repeat nonsense words with strange gurgling and burbling sounds while the cute new classmate watches from the next desk can be mortifying.
She says:For those of us who lived through the long years of the civil rights and women's rights movements, the speed with which more and more people have come to embrace the dignity and equality of LGBT Americans has been breathtaking, and inspiringThe former senator and first lady could have added one more adjective to that last list: mortifying.
Labour Day marked the beginning of the final sprint.The close contest is mortifying for Democrats, though not a shock.
The hyperactive new president pulled on his jogging shorts, threw out the dusty old presidential ways, recruited a broad-based multi-ethnic cabinet and set about dazzling the French with his pragmatic determination to talk straight and get things done.In Act Two of "The Hyperpresident", he was mortifying.
In either case, however, monastics improve their chances of redemption because, in mortifying their own bodies and minds for the benefit of others, they also help their own advancement along the spiritual path.
He got a place at Peterhouse, Cambridge, to study law though spent most of his time in Footlights, where he performed mortifying sketches about eating cereal with Baron Cohen, David Mitchell, Robert Webb and Olivia Colman.
The first Sony email leak was mortifying enough, but hackers have embarrassed bosses again with their latest move.
All I remember is being left with loads of other children at the kids' club and being made to stand up and do a performance in front of all the adults one night; it was mortifying.
