Sentence examples for for disgrace from inspiring English sources

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We gave the prize - controversially because he had won in 1983 - to Coetzee for Disgrace.

Actually having tea, the social ritual that gave a name to the whole proceeding, created new opportunities for disgrace.

It's character assassination — a shanda — that so many Jews say he was an anti-Semite," said Mr. Krupp, using a Yiddish word for disgrace.

Salman Rushdie made the list twice, for The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children, while VS Naipaul was nominated for A House for Mr Biswas, Ben Okri for The Famished Road and JM Coetzee for Disgrace.

Previously, The Master was just pipped to the Booker by The Line of Beauty in 2004 while The Blackwater Lightship was shortlisted in 1999, the year JM Coetzee won for Disgrace.

That series (and its many imitations) gives full vent to the highs and lows of show business; each dance number is a balletic metaphor for disgrace, punishing exertion and forgiveness.

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I'm so sorry for disgracing you.

On discovering her body, her brother curses her for disgracing him.

The show has become a pathway to redemption for disgraced Texas politicos.

For disgraced Officer Bud White in LA Confidential I am prepared to forgive 30 Odd Foot of Grunts.

Other Obies included playwriting awards for Annie Baker ("The Flick") and Ayad Akhtar for "Disgraced," which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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