As a species, we are capable of appalling cruelty: we deliberately degrade people, turning them into mere things, objects of our own greed, lust and hunger for domination.
Quick Call VHS Camcorder is a $4 iOS app that does something counterintuitive: Instead of trying to achieve amazing image quality from your 21st-century smartphone, it deliberately degrades the quality of videos and adds artifacts.
(Warner Home Video, $26.99, PG-13) DAVID LYNCH'S INLAND EMPIRE Mr. Lynch uses a deliberately degraded video image to relate this head-scratcher about an actress (Laura Dern) who appears to contain multitudes.
Prior to 2000, civilian GPS signals were deliberately degraded, leaving nonmilitary equipment with a margin of error of about 300 feet.
We understand that fakesteve.net is primarily a satirical forum, but there is nothing amusing about advocating that customers attempt to deliberately degrade service on a network that provides critical communications services for more than 80 million customers.
It deliberately "degraded young people".
But Mr Rasul and Mr Iqbal wrote: "We were deliberately humiliated and degraded by the use of methods that we now read US officials denying".
Wilde accused Douglas of distracting him from his art, of spending his money, of degrading him ethically, of constant scene-making, of deliberately and then thoughtlessly mistreating him.
Some consider it degrading.
