Sentence examples for indignity by from inspiring English sources

Now, in the twilight of her celebrity, must she suffer a final indignity by being resurrected as a gay icon?

But if the ballerina's personality contributed to her ouster, her enemies doubled the indignity by spreading the story that she had gotten too big for her partners.

The Crimson responded to this crowning indignity by mounting an operation to scale the side of the Lampoon's mock-Flemish castle and steal its figurehead, a copper ibis.

The Pinochet government completed the indignity by hastily burying Neruda in Santiago, not in the seaside town of Isla Negra, as he wished.

And yet the New York Police Department is compounding this intolerable indignity by compiling an enormous and permanent computerized database of these encounters between innocent New Yorkers and the police.

The sad final step in this degeneration would have been eating raw flour right out of the bag, but I was saved from that skid-row indignity by my purchase of a cheap digital scale.

It is easy to see why nearly everyone with a connection to GM is hoping that Mr Wagoner will not be forced out or subjected to further indignities by having to report to a federally appointed "car tsar".

The media are full of heartfelt cries (cris de coeur) in favor of legalizing medically assisted dying, of patients and families sharing excruciating stories of being condemned to suffer severe pain and multiple indignities by callous politicians, doctors, and religious fanatics.

Such indignities by definition would be inflicted on the most dependent patients, often on those who lacked capacity through dementia.

These days, we are more likely to be outraged by airport screening, and its public inconvenience and indignity, than by unseen monitoring.

This was a different kind of indignity, achieved by way of incompetence and naivety.