Sentence examples for ignominy with from inspiring English sources

While this would normally be a moment of national pride, prime minister Abbott had lurched from one foreign policy gaffe to the next, compounding the ignominy with his morally negligent policy to abolish Australia's carbon price.

Every once in a while one of us will break ranks and decide to share our ignominy with the world by writing thinly veiled autobiographical fiction about it, but what really sets The Midnight Bell apart from its innumerable likenesses is the incredible humour leaping from every page.

These passages give us a gripping account of how these people contended day by day with the cold, starvation and the prospect of dying in the snowy mountains near Truckee Lake, while creating compelling portraits of individuals and how they coped, with grace or ignominy, with their circumstances.

In all but one case on our list, every team coupled that ignominy with a losing season.

Hussey helped the tourists avoid total ignominy with an accomplished counter-attacking innings which included nine fours.

Another night of Northern Ireland ignominy ended with Jonny Evans being sent off for a crude foul, with Mahir Shukurov punishing the foul by netting the free-kick.

Morgan, one of only two England players to reach double figures, struck two defiant sixes to at least prevent that ignominy, but with the dark clouds that frequently threatened rain failing to produce a stoppage of any kind, he was ninth out.

It has elements of Jane Gardam's Old Filth – tetchy elderly people dealing with the ignominy of ageing – coupled with social commentary, dealing with, among other things, the war in Iraq, female genital mutilation and a plan to build a mosque in Headington.

In normal political systems the controversies engulfing these leaders would in all likelihood result in them either stepping down to spend more time with their families or resignation with ignominy.

But with ignominy this autumn comes glory next spring as the team with the worst record and the first overall draft pick would have the opportunity to select the Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, considered the best quarterback prospect since Peyton Manning.

Let's start from there, because with a writing career like Elton's – bejewelled with brilliance and, more recently, besmirched with ignominy – there is no point looking back.