Sentence examples for to indignities from inspiring English sources

I'm not sure going back — as response to indignities — is ever really an option.

His detractors find him condescending, because he so willingly subjects characters who are not rich or sophisticated or sleek to indignities that prompt viewers to laugh or wince.

But where the tabloids end and fiction begins, the authors of alternate histories root through a mix of real and imagined dirty laundry, exposing a character called, say, "the Princess of Wales" to indignities including scrubbing public bathrooms (in Mark Helprin's "Freddy and Fredericka") and managing a McDonald's (in Peter Lefcourt's "Di and I").

Locals say that agitation in the region is a response to indignities that have become commonplace.

I was alarmed by the fact that, after decades of struggle, today's young people are still subject to indignities due to their sexuality even when they enlist for military service.

But if we see our "self" as nimble and porous, we can sidestep arrows with our name on them and respond to indignities in a way that does not attack the dignity of those who trespass against us.

NOTHING drives an elected official to indignity faster than the promise of something for nothing.

Recalling the experience, she prefers aloneness to indignity: "She felt a deep cringe in the center of her belly.... Thank God Connie had had no confidante".

Why do we subject others to indignity?

To invoke Camus, once more, the riot is the rebels' No to indignity and injustice.

In addition to increasing attention to indignity and policy responses, particularly in relation to the care of older people, there is a growing body of empirical and theoretical literature relating to dignity [ 8- 16].