Sentences with phrase «face indignities»

The fact that women in the restaurant industry face indignities and discrimination has been, for as long as I've been writing about food, so embedded in the culture that speaking about it publicly seemed, as Molly Ringwald wrote, like «talking about the weather.»
But Aragorn, the group's leader, suggests that if one of them must face this indignity, they will all go blindfolded.

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He is just the most famous face of the many millions who are burdened with that indignity.
Lawmakers Want Overhaul of How NJ Treats Female Prisoners New Jersey's only women's prison faces growing scrutiny over allegations of sexual abuse, but former inmates and their advocates say prisoners there face other daily indignities.
Nothing more is required, but the movie, as it nears its spasmodic finale, insists on giving us everything we feared, and more: prolonged sexual indignity, gunshots to the stomach, and closeups of men and women alike being punched so hard that their faces fracture.
About the resilience of one man's mind, body, and spirit in the face of unending pain and indignity, Angelina Jolie «s POW prestige piece («a true story», according to the film's intro) is an excruciating watch, but the too neatly - packaged structuring and presentation act as something of a blockade between us and Zamperini's mind.
Kiang, for instance, discussed the indignities faced by Asian American soldiers during Vietnam — including being used as «targets» during Army drills.
Not one to shy away from the grisly realities of middle age, the «slyly subversive» (O, The Oprah Magazine) Gurwitch confronts the various indignities faced by femmes d'un certain age with candor, wit, and a healthy dose of hilarious self - deprecation.
Like some rare oddity, I was placed at a desk facing two rows of girls and was so busy watching for slights and suspecting all kinds of indignities that I never got to know any of them.
As I am standing in line waiting for the widely accepted indignities of pat - downs and body scans that are now a common part of traveling in the post 9/11 world, I spot a familiar face in the crowd.
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