Sentence examples for profound indignity from inspiring English sources
The piling up of rubbish on the country's streets, caused by a failure to agree on a new landfill site – and seen as a profound indignity by Lebanese – has become the defining example of the country's dysfunction.
I've always thought death-penalty proponents have a point when they say that it denigrates the profound indignity of murder to punish it in the same fashion as other crimes.
In the piece, Turow explores the moral justification for capital punishment and how that is undermined when the innocent are executed: I've always thought death-penalty proponents have a point when they say that it denigrates the profound indignity of murder to punish it in the same fashion as other crimes.
"The indignity of it is profound.
If these beautiful people on-screen can suffer all sorts of indignities and hurts and profound tedium but still end up together, you can too.
In education jargon, there is a most profound "learning outcome": a vivid sense of the indignities and humiliations, along with the "rueings" and reflections, of a patient undergoing experimental chemotherapy for stage-four metastatic ovarian cancer ("there is no stage five").
As he writes in a Nachlass note of 1887, regarding those "human beings who are of any concern to me": "I wish [them] suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities — I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished" (WP 910).
Going back through the calendar now, more than 18 months after my father died, the entries chart a relentless physical decline — profound fatigue, sore hips and knees, aching wrists, swollen legs, inflamed teeth, increasing forgetfulness, the savage indignities of old age.
Patiently enduring the indignities his life entails, his wistful one-eyed gaze gradually becomes a smile of profound contentment when his little human takes him on holiday and he discovers there's more to life than being hung out to dry on a clothes line.
The indignities befalling the disgraced television host Jimmy Savile reflect a broad popular revulsion — coupled with an equally profound sense of betrayal — at the widening accusations that he abused underage girls and boys over decades, taking advantage of his position as a celebrity entertainer and philanthropist.
