Sentence examples for mortification from inspiring English sources

Reporting the event was a hassle and risked mortification.

What to most people would be cause for a minor outbreak of sheepishness can lead Knausgaard to suffer agonies of mortification.

FROM behind automatic doors and beneath pavement vents across urban Britain wafts a tangy cocktail of sweat, chlorine and mortification, usually accompanied by energetic music and the clangs and thuds of weight machines.

"I have done a good deal of work in my way," he wrote to his close friend Charles Brace at the height of his success, "but it is constantly and everywhere arrested, wrecked, mangled and misused and it is not easy to get above intense disappointment and mortification".

But as people blink their way back into the light, it is relevant to wonder in what shape Dr Fidel Castro and his men have survived the diplomatic battering that has been going on over their heads.The mortification of the Cuban leaders at being demonstrably passed over while the decisions that mattered were being made has been taken for granted, perhaps too glibly.

But every single person watching must have experienced similar mortification at some point in their lives.

Iraq's new American-financed television channel beamed enthusiastic footage of the self-mortification of young children lashing themselves with chains.

He practiced flagellation and other forms of self-mortification and traveled from place to place in a bullock cart with an apprentice and with a woman who appears to have engaged in ritual prostitution.

A widespread, though not universal, feature of the ceremony was self-mortification by some of the participants.

The practice of self-mortification, which intensifies or stabilizes the austerities required of the monastic, is found in all monastic traditions.

In his first sermon, the Buddha prescribed a "middle way" between the extremes of self-indulgence and self-mortification.