Sentence examples for deep mortification from inspiring English sources

"The attitude of the Church toward him, more hostile than suspicious even, is an occasion for deep mortification".

She was like a bride left at the altar returning to the spot of her deepest mortification.

And I don't think I intended this, but what ended up happening was it sort of slightly reduced the deep sense of shame and mortification that I was feeling by somehow putting it down on paper.

This was but one of many acts of memorable hospitality that I have had extended toward me as a guest as an American on past visits to most of the countries that fall under Donald Trump's detestable and offensive "Muslim ban". My feelings of mortification and shame as an American could not be deeper.

My feelings of mortification and shame — as an American — could not be deeper.

The memoir craze continues nevertheless, and while plenty of readers out there may turn to the form for gossip, for entertainment, or because they are, in novelist Julia Glass' phrase, "mortification junkies," I think the genre speaks to a deeper need-for connection, for intimacy.

In religious terms (and Kerouac was always, deep down, a Catholic and a sufferer), it was a collar, a self-mortification.

Perhaps what I was feeling was shame not just the mortification of having made the wrong assumption about Tania's father but the deeper, sickening humiliation of being excluded from the élite group of children who had fathers.

In film, there were the usual worthy suspects — from "Captain Phillips" to "Dallas Buyer's Club" — and Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" left a deep impression on me, even if the movie teeters on the edge of a too-overt fascination with the mortification of the body (as nearly all his films do).

Mortification stole across his features.

Individualism is cause for mortification.