Sentence examples for was so mortified from inspiring English sources

MANTELLO -- I was so mortified by it that I scratched it out so other people signing my yearbook would not know that about me.

Major Maybe was so mortified that his jaw went flaccid, his leash having been tossed over one of the pointy spikes of the iron gate that enclosed the little cement area in front of his home.

One writer, Lev Grossman, was so mortified by the bad reviews that readers gave his first novel ("infantile trash", "puerile pap") that he submitted several anonymous ones of his own ("hilarious", "fabulous") to redress the balance.

A teenaged girl who was humiliated by officers as she walked to a subway stop in Brooklyn told me she was so mortified by the encounter that she hates to leave her apartment building — even to go to school.

Then I heard him say to our hostess, "They hate me," and I was so mortified at this misunderstanding, and so touched by his vulnerability, that I immediately joined him, and soon enough the others drifted over as well.

Ms. Bonet said that shortly after Kevyn was born, she was so mortified by his condition that she tried to kill herself when still in the maternity ward by disconnecting her intravenous tube and by trying to jump out a third-floor window.

It seems that even consumers for whom money is increasingly tight are so mortified at the prospect of what marketers call a "sweat event" that they are happily paying extra.

This murky parallel universe has grown horribly vivid: I'm invited to my first screening, after which I mumble to the producers and distribution staff, "Yeah, that was, uh, yeah – really something!" and I'm so mortified by meeting the director face to face that I hide in the loo.

I hadn't been so mortified since the end of my marriage, and a great many of the things that went through my head apropos of that marriage went through my head now: Why hadn't I left at the first whiff of the other woman's perfume?

Firth plays Wallace, a talented amateur golfer who is so mortified by his failure to make it as a professional – and by his failures as a husband and father – that he fakes his death and takes off for a new life elsewhere under the phoney identity Arthur Newmann".

They were so mortified by her reaction they sent this.