Sentence examples for utter degradation from inspiring English sources

In 1973 Mr. McNamara dedicated himself to the reduction of what he called "absolute poverty — utter degradation" in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Much porn is samey and some is utterly vile, full of torture, faeces, urine, vomit and blood and the utter degradation of women who become nothing but a series of orifices.

The hot-blooded horror of the general's utter degradation as he is beaten and taunted by political vulgarians parallels his cold corporate fate when, as an extra, he is subjected to the impersonal contempt of studio ruffians, which Sternberg shows in a series of lateral tracking shots of a mechanistic inhumanity.

Thrust into situations of utter degradation, places of utter ruin, and fates of utter despair, these victims unite in resisting the forces that would destroy them and, in the process, tap into a latent sensibility and forge a sublime style of their own.

She fixated on passages in the book like Bess's first appearance in Catfish Row — drunk and ravenous, "the acid of utter degradation" etched on her face; and when a love-struck Bess says she is living clean from drugs and liquor because God made "but one Porgy"; and other points as she grows attached to another woman's baby.

In spite of his regard for the Koran, he concluded, "To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab ... Here, I think, is a text for some eloquent sermon on the virtues of Christianity".

"Zentropa" suggests that Germany's problem after World War II was that "nobody had been very nice to it for a long time," and "Breaking the Waves" portrays a woman's willing submission to utter sexual degradation as an act of transcendent spiritual import.

"I have chosen this housing estate to deliver my first speech as prime minister for a very simple reason," he said, holding up this example of utter human degradation in a way that must have delighted local residents, and concluding, several pages later, that "the best thing any government can offer is hope, and that is what I bring today".

Miller, the late-arriving American in Paris, could have written a book of utter despair and degradation in keeping with the times, but instead he sings.

All other Americans risk scorn and degradation if they utter a word about it, particularly if they have college age children.

She glances up at the stiff man with a look of total and utter shame, the kind of shame that borders on degradation, the kind of shame that eats away at the soul for years to come, the kind of shame that sends your stomach into triple backflips.