Sentence examples for a mortifying experience from inspiring English sources

The Cultural Revolution was a mortifying experience, one that gave rise to the cautious pragmatism that has characterized subsequent generations of leaders.

Three years later, Reem Asaad, a lecturer in finance at Dar al-Hekma, a women's college in Jeddah, had a mortifying experience when she was shopping for underpants.

It goes without saying that this was a mortifying experience with my own mother.

The registration and distribution of ration (basic food and health supplies) has been a mortifying experience for many.

In other words -- and I speak from mortifying experience -- there is probably a disconnect between your outside self and your inside self; the more people think the outside one is running the show, the more you need to end this particular show.

Costa endured the mortifying experience for someone of his machismo of being taunted with chants for his former manager when he made a long, slow angular walk to the bench after being substituted 14 minutes from time.

Sutherland's boycotting stems from the "mortifying" experience of watching himself in 1986 coming-of-age movie Stand By Me.  "I had a girlfriend and we went to the cast and crew screening and I had a very specific idea of what I wanted to do with the character," he told Ross.

Everyone stuffs up now and then and everyone has at least one mortifying experience they can recount.

It is a mortifying, soul-scarring experience and sooner or later, it happens to everyone who stalks (to some more often than others).

That some pre-antibiotic medicines are poised to make a comeback, however, need not be a mortifying prospect.

When her daughter threatens to expose a mortifying secret, Celine chides her: "Don't pursue this.