Sentence examples for feeling damaged from inspiring English sources

And so began a cycle in which, each week, he courted me and then left me feeling damaged and discarded.

"The women at the top of organizations that I know will tell you that we think that we've made it because we were born the way we are and can play by these rules without feeling damaged by them," Ms. Dorner said.

Men and women who experience sexual violation often face years of feeling damaged, alone, and unlovable.

For many parents this means less tears, hurt feelings and damaged self esteem and body image for our children when we purchased a doll (or not).

But the death of his parents turned his life upside down and left him feeling depressed, damaging his aspirations for the future.

"It can be socially corrosive," he adds, noting that gossip can hurt feelings, damage relationships and reputations, disrupt work, and destroy careers.

This is a special, unique type of conversation where you can say exactly what you feel -- total honesty -- without worrying that you're going to hurt someone's feelings, damage a relationship, or be penalized in any way.

But she simply transfers the damaged feeling from herself to the reader.

I remember the sense of shame and the feeling of being damaged.

It's hard to decide what Zhivago really thinks about the Soviet revolution, or even the desirability of "poetry", whereas films such as Brief Encounter, The Passionate Friends, Madeleine and the Dickens adaptations are unhealed wounds, which repeatedly ask the awkward question: what is the place of damaged feeling in this England?

Because society tells us that feeling ashamed and damaged is an unavoidable part of being a victim.