Sentence examples for scenes of disgrace from inspiring English sources

Cavendish offers a more artful and richly developed narrative, beautifully balanced between splendid scenes of Wolsey's glory and vanity and ironically contrasting scenes of disgrace, abasement, and painfully achieved self-knowledge.

The prodigal's return to his scene of disgrace would make a shapely ending, but Wolff resists it and moves off to a surprising coda.

Calling Sunday "a dark black day in the history of the Egyptian judiciary," the Supreme Constitutional Court charged in a statement that a mob of Islamists had blocked the judges from entering the courthouse, in an "abhorrent scene of shame and disgrace".

As a young student in Rome, he broke off an engagement to his longtime love in Paris because he couldn't stomach a return to the salons there, "the scene of my disgrace," he said.

At a Democratic party, this would have been the signal to move into high gear, drinking and dancing and carrying on in ways that would lead to scenes of dawn debauchery and disgrace.

Living in a state of disgrace.

The giddiness and pleasure of disgrace".

The half-life of disgrace seems to be getting shorter.

The sex scenes themselves – men taking women on beds, men taking two or three women at once, men off their faces masturbating in bathrooms – are monuments of disgrace and grotesqueness.

There are, indeed, many circles in the inferno of disgrace.

They managed to rid the Islamic nation of disgrace.