For one man, the humiliation of choice here is fame (with a debasement chaser), while for the other it's his incessant vocal mugging.
It isn't so much that Godard is reducing the play; rather, he's suggesting that the simple fact of its text being printed and readily accessible is itself a kind of debasement; with his images and his verbal analyses, he rescues the play from its ostensible familiarity as a cultural given.
This guy was obsessed with transgression, eroticism, and debasement.
I was in the infantry, where the main training method was a kind of ceaseless debasement that began with the way we were fed.
But, if we are still moved by Miller's play after all these years, it is for a very basic reason: its combination of compassion for a deeply flawed individual with an attack on the debasement of the American dream that allows business success to be substituted for the noble ideal of equality for all.
With steely precision, Coombes dissects the debasement and distortions of rock'n'roll fame.
(a Black Cat adaptation from 1934, with nudity, eyeball gore and ranting performances), were on screens, critics had started valuing Poe as part of a canon of literary texts and every Poe picture was greeted with a certain huffiness about the debasement of his reputation.
The chairman and too many economists confuse price changes that are triggered by a debasement of the currency with price changes that come about from normal activities in the marketplace.
This tendency toward fiat money led eventually to the debasement of Roman coinage, with consequences in the later Empire.
Compare the debasement of virtual discounts with the inspiration of "Project Re: Brief," rolled out jointly in 2013 by Google and Coca-Cola.
