Many European governments, for example, suffered humiliating losses defending currencies that were misaligned in the early 1990s.
He dares to be politically incorrect: to reveal, for example, how humiliating it is for a hulking man to take his children to play groups.
Other examples of Humiliating Position from the data are that the interviewee was demoted to less advanced work tasks, that her competence was questioned, or that she feels that she had been fired without a 'proper' or even understandable cause.
Her bouts of parental ineptness — forgetting to bring a snack to the park for her daughter, Lucy, for example — are both humiliating and self-aggrandizing.
After acknowledging that a 20th child — by the official count — had been born out of wedlock to the daughter of a family friend, Mr. Zuma was obliged to issue a humiliating apology last month for the example he had set: Only months earlier, he had been urging South Africans to use condoms to counter one of the world's highest rates of H.I.V. infection.
There's no mention, for example, of the humiliating naked "posture pictures" taken of each freshman (not just at Wellesley, and not just of women) for vaguely eugenic purposes, or of the regular "marriage lectures," or of the inscription Carolyn Heilbrun (Wellesley '47) recalls adorning one library (now demolished): "Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman".
Much of what makes the book such an entertaining read is Leaf's self-mocking wit and humor, as he struggles, for example, through several humiliating episodes of chronic public flatulence that he attributes to his colitis.
One person with an insulin pump, for example, described a humiliating episode at an airport where he had been strip-searched by security staff.
Thus, for example, insulting and humiliating speech, shouting and scolding were classified as 'verbal abuse'; whilst ignoring patients or being uncaring, dismissive or hostile were classified as 'rudeness'rudeness
