Sentences with phrase «from ignominy»

A huge difference often lacking in this culture where public apologies are the price of return from ignominy and where the offending typically engage in the appearence of an act of contrition without actually admitting the need for contrition.

Better Bluetooth tech has also saved users from the ignominy of holding up a big slab of a device up to the ear for communicating.

We won't go into the Renault Sport Clio in great detail here but it is saved from the ignominy its Efficient Dual Clutch (EDC) automated manual might foist upon it by a chassis of genuine Renault Sport brilliance.

Documenting the untold story of the online - dating industry's rise from ignominy to ubiquity — beginning with its early days as «computer dating» at Harvard in 1965 — Slater offers a lively, entertaining, and thought provoking account of how we have, for better and worse, embraced technology in the most intimate aspect of our lives.

Probably the most dramatic goal ever scored by a goalkeeper was Jimmy Glass's effort for Carlisle United in May 1999 that saved the club from the ignominy of non-league football.

Not exact matches

Therefore, it does not aim to out - argue its opponents, but to shame them, to drive them from the field in ignominy, to make them figures of ridicule, moral indignation, and revulsion.

This was Team Marin, a trio of seemingly fit competitors who could not, alas, navigate their way from the elevator to the lobby of the Sunday River Inn, to which they retreated after withdrawing from the race in ignominy.

Whether they can wrestle another win or three away from the Dodgers before the series is out (probably not) is yet to be seen, but they avoided the ignominy of being swept and will have another game at Wrigley Field on Thursday.

The Messiah is delivering us from Thursday night football into the chasm of Champions league ignominy where the most recent edition saw Arsenal slaughtered 10 - 2 in the first knock out round.

Iowa was minutes away from its second straight loss, having slid from an undefeated Playoff contender to Rose Bowl participant, a title without ignominy even down five scores.

I will now go offer prayers to the Flying Spaghetti Monster in hope that he will extend grace his godly eyes and save us all from eternal humiliation and ignominy of another defeat at home.

Ah, the ignominy and depression that accompany defeat are hard things to wipe from one's mind, aren't they?

Only something extraordinary will spare Rovers the ignominy of entering the new year rock - bottom of the league, with Steve Kean's struggling team requiring at least a point from their visit to the 19 - time English champions.

Only six Premier League wins since the turn of the year has seen Arsenal drop out of the title race, a ignominy augmented by elimination from the Champions League in the Round of 16 for the fifth consecutive year.

In the last pages, Blair grasps for an understanding of his political life, its evolution from fearful popularity to courageous ignominy.

The ultimate ignominy of not being able to organise our own party conference has been avoided, but we have not been further from power since the 1930s.

It was this new perspective more than anything else that turned gene therapy from a simple but failed and frustrated hope into, once again, medicine's next big thing — a stunning spectacle of hubris, ignominy, and redemption on the scientific stage.

As part of a tight community of serious marine biologists, they had helped rescue their fledgling field from New Age ignominy, fiercely imposing rigor where pseudoscience once reigned and proving that dolphins possess a complex intelligence comparable to our own.

It's long been the cock of the walk at Sundance, from big buys «Little Miss Sunshine» and «Napoleon Dynamite» to Oscar contenders «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» «Brooklyn,» and «The Birth of a Nation,» the $ 17.5 million acquisition that skidded into ignominy and a disappointing release as its writer - director - star Nate Parker was tainted by a rape scandal.

Conversely, the French quite like Saint Laurent, which gets an anemic 1.7 average from the Screen crew, just avoiding the ignominy of last place.

After Creed's widow Mary Anne (Phylicia Rashad, the third actress to play this role in the franchise) comes looking for Adonis, saving him from a life of ignominy, the story cuts to the present.

That this includes a member of the U.S. senate is simply embarrassing, but fortunately I am not from the state of Oklahoma and so can personally avoid any blame for that particular ignominy.

One entered a noble profession from a position of ignominy.