For Obama and Cameron and the rest of our Western leaders, who have fumbled around Syria for four years, neither dethroning Assad nor defeating Isis, a Russian-assisted recapture of Palmyra would be a humiliating lesson.
This past year I had a wonderful and often humiliating lesson in the painful minutiae of such cross-cultural transactions, having served as a co-writer and executive producer of Ang Lee's forthcoming film, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
Americans are currently getting a humiliating lesson in ballroom dancing.
But it was a humiliating lesson, and one that she carried with her for decades: Keep quiet about your religion.
He then delivers a humiliating lesson in etiquette, telling the Captain that he must always say "if you please" after giving an order; for "A British sailor is any man's equal" – excepting Sir Joseph's.
Football had taken a back-seat in the midfielder's life but the lessons of that humiliating Champions League trip were learned.
Zoe:... just ignoring students who are visibly upset in order to "teach them a lesson" is unhelpful, humiliating... dehumanizing, really.
Sir Alex Ferguson's reaction to humiliating defeat provides a history lesson for anyone tempted to write him or Manchester United off in the aftermath of their 6-1 derby thrashing by Manchester City.
Can important life lessons be drawn from comically humiliating sex?
