Sentence examples for humiliation and misery from inspiring English sources

But only so much violence, humiliation and misery can be artfully and effectively dramatized in 90 minutes onstage before numbness sets in.

Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery.

It is undoubtedly cooler for certain generations to take an ironic stance to sex, and so awkwardness and humiliation and misery and disconnect are cooler, in their exquisitely comic way, than just, say, having an OK sexual experience.

He rebelled against the doctrine that the humiliation and misery of prolonged unemployment were the product of impersonal forces which governments could do little to alleviate and he allied himself with Churchill in his campaign for armed resistance to Hitler.

Julian Barnes's new novel, "The Noise of Time," is about Shostakovich, and it begins with the composer enduring the humiliation and misery of his exclusion from musical life, in 1936.

Instead, they talked about Jim Crow, and about lynching, and about violence and humiliation and misery — Ida Mae being held by the ankles by two white boys over a well, where if she were dropped no one would ever find her.

At the height of the pro-democracy protests in Pearl Square in February, Ayat had recited a poem addressed to King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa that included the lines: "We will kill humiliation and assassinate misery.

In this fashion, Burkhart can be thought of as conducting interventions on the desire, pain, humiliation, volition, ecstasy, and misery that the public imagines to be Liz's life repertoire and thereby projected onto the star.

"It's because the life we are leading is not a life anymore, because we are being killed, beaten, arrested, because we live in misery, humiliation and sorrow," he said.

Poverty and misery for certain.

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