Sentence examples for their indignities from inspiring English sources

Having written the book Enslaved in 2007, which presented both immigrant stories and an analysis of a system responsible for their indignities, I wanted to find a way of dramatising it for the stage.

To add to their indignities, they are frequently looked down upon or ignored by their tenured peers.

But I would go further than Steinem and suggest that until this happens, until female politicians are engaged in scandal to the same extent as men and treated equally when their indignities are revealed, we cannot claim to have achieved parity in politics.

To add to their indignity, the Australian government has now rejected the findings of the independent review of its response to the "national emergency" facing Aboriginal communities.

The trick is to identify the nominees in the aisle seats - the ones who can get up quickly without having to clamber gracelessly over their neighbours with the cameras rolling and their indignity on show.

"Everything is copy," Nora Ephron's mother used to tell her daughters, encouraging them to mine their private indignities in the service of art.

And while you're all going no place special in such a hurry, try to remember that what you're really trapped in is your own perceptions, and that your anger comes from the common American convictions that the laws of physics and the rules of commerce and their consequent indignities apply to everyone but you.

He offers, as a parable, a beautiful reading of the story of the sirens; you can get past them by tying people up and stuffing wax in their ears, indignities you convince yourself are unavoidable, or you can get Orpheus on your ship: "When Orpheus sang, who bothered to listen to the Sirens?" (King slightly conflates the journey of Jason with a later one of Ulysses, but that matters not a bit).

They move on to the indignities their parents faced in leaving their homes.

At Bonampak, also in Chiapas, Dr. Johnston pointed out, murals depicted in vivid red paint captives that he said had "suffered two indignities: their fingers have been broken and are bleeding copiously, and their fingernails have been torn out".

They have generally been indifferent to Palestinian economic suffering and to their frustration over indignities like checkpoint searches, property confiscations and settlement expansion.