Sentence examples similar to serious indignity from inspiring English sources
Finally, far from being a trivial issue, the trend reminds indigenous peoples of all the more serious crimes and indignities they have been subjected to over the past 500 years.
This was an inspired idea, as one of the chief pleasures of a presidential campaign is seeing serious candidates subjected to minor indignities.
One reason for publishing the Nauru Files was to provide a picture of the reality of life there through the everyday bureaucracy of the reports, the serious allegations and the minor daily indignities and humiliations.
Turning serious for a moment, Ali recalled the indignity of returning to Louisville after winning a gold medal in the 1960 Olympics, only to be denied entrance to a restaurant in his hometown.
"Did John Irving ever have to do this?" Tawni O'Dell on posing as a wood nymph and other indignities in the life of the serious female novelist.
Rather, the court found, it "is a serious intrusion upon the sanctity of the person, which may inflict great indignity and arouse strong resentment, and it is not to be undertaken lightly".
"It is a serious intrusion upon the sanctity of the person, which may inflict great indignity and arouse strong resentment," Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote.
It grooves even as it turns a casually funny vignette about the petty indignities of show-biz bureaucracy into something far more serious and ominous.
To compound things, he and the producers had serious differences over the edit, and he had to suffer the very Hollywood indignity of having it taken out of his hands.
That indignity shouldn't hurt.
