Sentence examples for total debasement from inspiring English sources
It was in these midcentury years that the heart of the Africans', and America's, great tragedy unfolded as the planters slowly, experimentally, logically, step by step devised the legal concept of chattel as a form of total debasement, heritable in the maternal line, and confined to nonwhite people alone.
Such total debasement of yourself, Mitt.
There is all of humanity in a potato smiley: it can be a symbol of love, or of total debasement.
I received all the oppressive deficits of a system of an inhuman religious culture targeting to unbrace my mental being, to degrade me, to operate in total submission, the complete debasement and trivialization of my human dignity.
A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement".
Once we've stipulated that commercial culture is that which debases everything, we need a popular concept that helps us resist debasement.
Artie's debasement is palpable.
He would have preëmpted all future debasement.
Their success would not be seen as a debasement.
"That's what you call a partial debasement," he said.
The Euripidean assault on the gods ended in the debasement of the original lofty conceptions.
