The news media have seized on humiliating instances of failure.
Fierce independence is best when peppered with humiliating instances that remind you how much you rely on the people in your life, not to mention our NHS.
There is substantial room for interpretation, legal experts said, between Common Article 3's strict prohibition of, for instance, humiliating treatment and the McCain amendment's ban only on conduct that "shocks the conscience".
Analysts have pointed out problems with the initiative — for instance, the humiliating requirement that each man confess his mistakes and condemn the insurgency before television cameras, for propaganda purposes.
During the Olympics, when a female gymnast finishes an event and hugs her coach, often a man three times her age, I cringe at what I believe is the unsavory stench of the sport in general — children under the wing of men who based on lengthy documentation have proven to be abusive, relentless, intolerant, humiliating and, in some instances, accused of sexual misconduct.
The humiliating Corsair affair, from this distance a tawdry and typical instance of provincial mentality cutting a local eminence down to size, worked in Kierkegaard like a religious poison.
But these instances were also power trips, the mundane and humiliating fabric of life under military occupation.
For instance, in Penang in the north of the country the Barisan defeat was so humiliating that its candidate for governor, Teng Chang Yeow, resigned from all his party posts.
For instance, Adam Morton contends that evildoers are crucially uninhibited by barriers against considering harming or humiliating others that ought to be there (Morton 2004, 57).
"For instance, if the bride's family finds its guests are many fewer than the groom's, it's humiliating".
