Dr. Norcross blamed "the brutal training surgeons get, the long hours, being belittled and 'pimped' " — a term for being bombarded with questions to the point of looking stupid.
All were either ignored, rebuked or belittled". Long-term institutional abuse on young vulnerable girls was perpetuated by staff and tolerated by the Church of England.
Mr. Museveni, who has been in office for 30 years and is notorious for giving long, rambling, bombastic speeches, belittled the sensitive negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, saying that people "waste a lot of time with these international meetings" and that he often fell asleep during them.
With most of his veteran colleagues having the morning off, linebacker Marvin Jones took it upon himself to ensure that the defense -- scalded by Coach Al Groh's criticism after the Jets' 37-24 loss to Green Bay on Friday -- would not be belittled for long.
It was a response entirely in keeping with the media's long history of belittling and denigrating Indigenous people, and as such entirely deserving of all the outrage it generated.
The resident can't bear the thought of being belittled for three long months but doesn't know how to switch a rotation without attracting opprobrium.
Is this one reason these auteurs were belittled for so long by the canon-makers of blues and early jazz and are overlooked by those who chronicle the lives of far more obscure rock 'n' roll pioneers?
"These conflicted feelings were so common with older gay men I met when I moved to New York in the late '70s — they could be incredibly funny but then turn into a rage easily, after being belittled for so long," said Mr. Beane, whose previous plays have mostly been contemporary satires like "The Little Dog Laughed," his last one on Broadway, which received a Tony nomination for best play in 2007.
In a 2001 book, he confronted the relationship of Russians and Jews, a subject that some critics had long contended he had ignored or belittled in his fiction.
