Sentence examples for humiliation and power from inspiring English sources

For me, it wasn't entirely plain – but the demonstration of humiliation and power was crystal-clear.

From the start, Fassbinder filmed with his own repertory company of actors, including Hanna Schygulla, who plays Franz's girlfriend, Johanna; their scenes of erotic gamesmanship exude the cruelty, humiliation, and power plays that are the director's enduring themes.

Psychological violence included verbal attacks (insults, humiliations); control and power (isolation from family and friends, impeded decision-making, economic abandonment); pursuit and harassment, verbal threats (threats on the life of the woman or her family, threats regarding custody of children, intimidating phone calls); and blackmail (economic or emotional).

Abuse of power, humiliation and small tortures began to blossom - not within months, but within days.

Gira's words invoked power and humiliation, and if he could get his band to turn those abstract ideas into concrete sensations so much the better.

After suffering humiliation and subjugation by western imperial powers for centuries, China will fight the United States for its own sphere of influence in the South China and East China Seas.

When the psychology shifts and the fiscal crisis happens, the shock will be grievous: national humiliation, diminished power in the world, drastic cuts and spreading pain.