Either the contestants or yours truly are humiliated or at least embarrassed every night.
Monica Lewinsky could very well be the internet's first humiliated woman – at least on the kind of national and international scale upon which scandals now so simply exist.
It is therefore essential not to humiliate others, to respect them; and if humiliation has taken place, if contact has been broken, to reestablish it, at least as long as the one humiliated is still accessible to dialogue and has not become a bitter enemy, that force alone can hold in check.
At least people who feel accused and shamed tend to feel humiliated, and a large segment of the population seems to feel that minorities, including intellectuals, who place blame on them and demand reparations, are the enemy.
Few identify with Jenner, least of all the youth who know him only as the humiliated reality television grandfather.
Overnight, at least two hundred and fifty thousand Iraqi men — armed, angry, and with military training — were suddenly humiliated and out of work.
If, by some horrible mishap, the truth were to come out, the President, while embarrassed, humiliated, and made to look out of it, would at least be able to react with unfeigned indignation and somewhat mitigated hypocrisy.
However deep inside all skeptics and even most cynics is a deep abiding ache to believe again (because not believing leaves us safe and bitter or at least British), but do so without the fear of being hurt, disappointed, humiliated or betrayed.
In the case of Bonds and Clemens, the line may be going more or less down the middle, leaving both players with enough voter support to not feel humiliated but without enough to gain entry to the Hall, at least for now.
At least on the West Coast I don't have to stay up until midnight to feel humiliated.
