Sentence examples for mounting humiliation from inspiring English sources

In regional meetings with prosperous neighbours, Myanmar's backwardness was a mounting humiliation.

Bronstein, working with a scant budget (that he met by working as a projectionist), filmed a young man named Keith Sontag who is stifled to the point of furious agitation (played by the director's cousin, Dore Mann) as he endures a mounting range of humiliations in his romantic life, in his relations with an abusive roommate, and in his cultlike job as a door-to-door salesman of discount coupons.

Sometimes the play really is the thing, to the exclusion of almost everything else, most notably in comedies that explore the joys, perils and humiliations of mounting a show and the sublime self-centeredness of those involved in the process.

The diaries of Victor Klemperer, a German Jew who from inside the Dresden ghetto documented the humiliations and mounting cruelties visited by the Nazis on the Jews of Dresden from 1933 to 1945, have been rightly acclaimed for both their historical importance and their literary power.

Her attempts at friendship spurned, her halting English mocked, Jen refuses to be cowed, and as the humiliations mount -- being locked outside her room in nothing but bra and skirt, discovering that "rugby team manager" means cleaning the team's toilets -- the movie's peppy soundtrack refuses to allow us to dwell on the unrelenting mean-spiritedness.

The banning followed six days of huge traffic – reportedly more than 250m views – and mounting criticism that Reddit was facilitating the humiliation of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Kirsten Dunst, among other celebrities.

To continue to ignore the mounting evidence of clear wrongdoing is a national humiliation.

As the analysis of (8) shows, there is a strong co-occurrence of Significance (intense, mounting, changed dramatically, erupted, heightened) and Affect (tension, hostility, humiliation, concerned, fears).

On August 31, the minister endured the humiliation of submitting a budget proposal for 2016 with a projected primary deficit (before payment of interest on the mounting Brazilian public debt) the government does not know how to finance.

It was in that part of Abu Ghraib that the acts of sexual humiliation and other abuse are reported to have taken place in a period that began after early October, as the anti-American insurgency was mounting.

Mounting casualties, the foolhardiness of a mission that Bush promised would be welcomed by Iraqis, the massive miscalculation of the resistance and the international humiliation of America after Abu Ghraib have all taken their toll on the American public.