Sentence examples for forms of humiliation from inspiring English sources

In addition to the physical mistreatment, the detainees reported that various gruesome forms of humiliation, including sexual humiliation, were pervasive.

"Examples of abuse included beatings, deliberate burnings with hot irons, threats, insults, and forms of humiliation such as shaving a domestic worker's head.

I think above all because they asserted their countries' nationhood, unity, pride and independence against Western colonization or foreign invasion and so delivered them forever from forms of humiliation.

The report, titled "Make Him Speak by Tomorrow": Torture and Other Ill-treatment in Thailand, documents 74 alleged cases of torture and other ill-treatment including beatings, strangling by hand or rope, waterboarding and forms of humiliation.

In the aftermath of the attack, fire officials described a culture of taunts and razzing at the Staten Island firehouse — and at others across the city — that included homosexual slurs, vulgar jokes about people's height or weight and other forms of humiliation.

But Agamben's point about the Holocaust (and Koestenbaum's about lynching photographs or the grotesqueries at Abu Ghraib) has to do with the codification of that process, its more or less elaborate ritual or performance, and the precise, apparently small, acts of mockery or exposure that link reality TV and surveillance culture to the worst forms of humiliation.

To submit to an ideology of belligerence was a form of humiliation that destroyed one's humanity.

He recalls how prisoners were routinely herded into a concrete chamber and required to sleep standing up as an additional form of humiliation.

But these days, it is more likely to involve some form of humiliation or physical abuse, say educators and law enforcement officials.

The Iraq war turned documentary photography into a leering form of humiliation and a potent weapon in the information campaign that is the core strategy of contemporary insurgencies, based on the terrifying principle of can-you-top-this.

But these days, mirroring both the rise in reckless college hazing and the overall escalation of violence in society, it is more likely to involve some form of humiliation or physical abuse, say educators and law enforcement officials.