Sentence examples for sudden disgrace from inspiring English sources
Asked whether he thought that the rise to fame and sudden disgrace of John Dee in his opera was one of the particularly "English" aspects about it, he started chuckling: "Build 'em up, then knock 'em down?
Trujillo's regime is supported by Johnny Abbes García, the head of the Military Intelligence Service (SIM), a brutal man to whom many "disappearances,... executions,... sudden falls into disgrace" are attributed.
He sounded on the verge of tears and the reason, of course, was the sudden turmoil into which the Tour had been thrown by the disgrace of Alexandr Vinokourov and Michael Rasmussen.
One had written that Thrale could never have imagined "his wife's disgrace, by eventually raising an obscure and penniless Fiddler into sudden Wealth".
Small-town dramas, these, but for a child, epic: seeing one's father publicly disgraced, living with the obloquy – not to mention the sudden poverty – can only be character-forming.
