Sentence examples for abject humiliation from inspiring English sources

All that awaited him here was abject humiliation.

The loan discussions were an abject humiliation, consigning Britain to devaluation and an economic crisis.

The last time Barack Obama took a chance on Copenhagen it ended in abject humiliation.

In almost every race, one of the four contestants does not make it over and tumbles backwards in abject humiliation.

Here Ms. Mattila was the image of abject humiliation, singing with halting poignancy, looking like a stoop-shouldered, guilty child.

Always good to mix learning with abject humiliation, as my old French teacher Mr Seymour knew so well.

Naturally, an honest take, in a frank idiom, on the crude rituals and abject humiliations of pubescence will toy with forbidden thoughts.

But just as Genet and Flaubert saw to it that virtue arose from their characters abject humiliations, Burkhart sees in Liz's mix of willing masochism and aggressive careerism, material acquisition, and sexual prowess, the drive necessary to propel Taylor to the top of the star system in the 1950s and 1960s.

It neglected to mention its abject judicial humiliation a year ago following grotesque delays in processing Personal Independence Payments.

Moving the entire BBC Sport operation from its nice, convenient headquarters in west London to a nondescript northern dive is about as abject a humiliation as it is possible to conceive.

In any event it was an extraordinary confession to make for its time (1922) and, who knows, whatever the truth of the matter, why Lawrence felt he had to write at such length and in such precise detail about this abject personal humiliation.