For example, some upholders of academic tradition scorn "women's studies" on the grounds that women are merely a subset of "mankind". A similar belittlement of engineering is implied each time the profession is called "applied science". The consequences in public image and, yes, in dollars-grants, salaries, and the like-are only too real.
Only a performance from the school of José Mourinho's self-assured arrogance or Joe Kinnear's obscenity packed rants would have prevented a public belittlement of Hodgson, the former Inter Milan and Liverpool coach.
From the right, on the other hand, it is all belittlement and ridicule, portraying Corbyn as a guarantor of interminable Tory governments.
only gave half a column of belittlement to After the Deluge," Virginia Woolf recorded in October of 1931.
It is a masterpiece of belittlement: She is the daughter of John B. Kelly, of Philadelphia.
Instead, it is a cry for recognition and a means of evading belittlement, or worse yet, the curse of not being noticed at all.
It was difficult to find a correct name for this theme, since it covers both a position, e.g. when an employee's competence is questioned leading to a more or less persistent feeling of low status and/or belittlement, and a situation where the employee experiences feelings of being violated and/or excluded, e.g. when the employee is expressly told that she is unwelcome at her workplace.
It was particularly noteworthy that Tatyana Dmitrieva, the then Director of the Serbsky Institute, was a proponent of such belittlement.
One source states, "With every Democrat in New York...angling for the appointment, there was a sense of bafflement, belittlement, and bruised egos when Paterson tapped the junior legislator unknown outside of Albany".
I wasn't scared to speak about it and to hold collaborative, productive and insightful conversations - but often these conversations became a battleground for namecalling, belittlement, and no exchange of innovative ideas to progress peace forward.
