Sentence examples for acute humiliation from inspiring English sources

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I feel quite acute humiliation at my powerlessness to ensure my wife's safety - Belfast (M) You need CEASELESS VIGILANCE if you want to stay alive.

If Glasgow is seized by the Scottish National Party SNPP) in local elections on May 3rd it will be an acute humiliation for Ed Miliband, Labour's leader worse even than the party's trouncing by George Galloway, an independent left-winger, in a parliamentary by-election in Bradford West last month.Labour's local problems first emerged in 2007.

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The war generated acute economic malaise, national humiliation and legions of restive veterans and unemployed youths who could be harnessed politically.

According to someone who discovered a surviving cache of the racy pix of the young women of either Smith or Wellesley, many exhibit, by their expressions, combinations of acute discomfort, deep embarrassment, humiliation and livid anger.

The French sense of national humiliation, particularly acute within the army, had lasting repercussions on French public opinion and contributed along with later events in Algeria to the downfall of the Fourth Republic in 1958.

Liberation Army Daily, alluding to China's acute sense of past humiliations at the hands of foreigners, wrote: "The War to Resist America and Aid Korea was a settling of accounts with the Opium War of over a century beforehand".

Destitution affected their mental health, left them socially isolated and prone to acute feelings of shame and humiliation.

In our sample of psychiatric patients evaluated during the admission process to acute hospital units, high perceived humiliation was associated with compulsory admission, not being in paid work, showing hostility or suspicion and expressing superiority or entitlement.

Well... Ayoade likened the frequent absurdity in the literature of Dostoevsky (and also writers such as Nikolai Gogol and Franz Kafka) to the work of contemporary comedian Larry David — full of acute awareness of the minor humiliations and incidental confrontations of daily life.

But, in the end, the spectacle, the noisy euphoria of the crowds, and the presence of grownups all telegraphed an acceptance of things as they were, and one's awareness of the elephants' humiliation became somehow less acute.

"Mr prime minister, who governs France today?" taunted Jean-Marc Ayrault, leader of the Socialist group in the National Assembly.The humiliation for Mr de Villepin is acute.

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