Sentence examples for a debasement from inspiring English sources

Their success would not be seen as a debasement.

For one man, the humiliation of choice here is fame (with a debasement chaser), while for the other it's his incessant vocal mugging.

The sad thing about "Spring Fashion Modeled by Rising Young Poets" is not that the photos are a debasement of Art.

When students are in a panic over how to fill their hours, it leads to a debasement of community service that mistakes quantity for quality, these critics say.

The contrary, idealist view is that it is a debasement of the old-fashioned principle that creative work is its own award.

The careless use of "dissident" in the Irish and British media is a debasement of language as it implies intellectual and moral fiber that the rejectionists plainly do not possess.

This was followed by a proliferation of chiefs and a general debasement of chieftainship, in part due to widespread wealth, giving individual hunters the means to challenge the traditional chiefs.

"That's what you call a partial debasement," he said.

Solon, on taking office in Athens in 594 bc, did institute a partial debasement of the currency.

Le Monde wrote of a "double debasement: of the authority of Nicolas Sarkozy and of the image of France in Europe and in the world".

This decay is part of a general debasement, he thinks, affecting everything in post-communist Russia, from rocket-building to journalism.