Sentence examples similar to a point of mortification from inspiring English sources

At one point, losing faith in both his movie and in himself, he sinks into a state of mortification worthy of a medieval saint.

The bones vanished into store in a cloud of mortification.

Boys give him a knowing thumbs up, but Mr. Cuomo's daughters shoot him a look of mortification.

From that time on, I got hooked on two aids many people use to survive with a minimum of mortification.

Sure, the boots still needed to be taken to the cobbler, but a night of mortification was turned around by one Lady Macguyver.

At one point, director Wim Wenders discussed Stanton's reluctance to take on a leading man role, and someone yelled out, "Bullshit!" I felt a surge of mortification, then realized it was Stanton, heckling his own film.

The virtue to aspire to: A spirit of mortification.

Her voice even louder, as if it were another chorus, a building symphony of mortification.

The consensus seemed to be that the couple's boorish behavior had been a continuing source of mortification and that they might cause less trouble apart.

And while his is certainly a witty account of the varieties of mortification ("In a sonnet, the ratio of humiliation to uplift is 8 6"), Koestenbaum's point is ultimately an ethical one: "We have an obligation to keep asking questions about experiences that are not our own, experiences that are worse than our own ever will be".

Greenwood tends to wince when he walks into a room, as if in anticipation of mortification to come.