Sentence examples for humiliating performance from inspiring English sources

Dressed in a three-piece business suit, Mr. Gantner preserved a modicum of dignity despite his humiliating performance in the song contest.

Instead of using his opponent's behavior to detract from his team's own humiliating performance, Coach Bob Davie faced the reality of Notre Dame's collapse.

STATE 66, OHIO STATE 60 Drew Neitzel scored 8 of 13 points in the first half, helping No. 11 Michigan State start strong and regroup from a humiliating performance with a victory against visiting Ohio State.

But after witnessing a sloppy and humiliating performance in a critical game of the season — a 9-2 win by the Boston Red Sox to complete the three-game sweep — Girardi first let his team know of his disappointment with their effort in a stern postgame meeting, then issued the same emphatic message to reporters.

But the change that turned the country from a genteel also-ran in the Olympics into the steely competitor it has been in London dates to a humiliating performance in the Atlanta Games of 1996, when Britain placed 36th in the medal table, with only one gold.

The system was left as good as intact, and even the part-nationalised banks, RBS and Lloyds, have since been run at arm's length to fatten them up as quickly as possible for re-privatisation (savage RBS cost-cutting lies behind its humiliating performance last month), instead of as motors of investment and recovery.

But as it appears in the flow of Govier's text, it's an ecstatic, nuanced poetic turn -- especially with its inference, in "where the heart ought to be," of the coarsening coercions and humiliating performances (the family dragooned into service, Maria manipulated, potential patrons ingratiated) that are involved in pulling off a project as daunting as "The Birds of America".

Despite near-daily public meltdowns culminating in September's humiliating "comeback" performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, the troubled 26-year-old mother of two still managed to eek out $8 million from old hits and surprisingly strong sales of her perfume, Curious, which grossed $55.4 million in 2006.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry's campaign is facing meltdown after one of the most humiliating debate performances in recent US political history.

Especially humiliating lately is the performance of the largest funds, including Fidelity Magellan, in Peter Lynch's day the grand master of actively managed vehicles.

Twice, David Winnick, a lawmaker from the Labour Party, asked Mr. Buckles whether his company's performance was a "humiliating shambles".