Sentences with word «ignominious»

The brainchild of Bob Rafelson, making his directorial debut; his producing partner and Monkees cocreator Bert Schneider; and Jack Nicholson, a coscreenwriter on the project, Head was the fanciful beginning and ignominious end of the TV - bred supergroup's big - screen career.

It's a do - over, a chance to make good on all those goals that died a quiet and ignominious death the previous year.

The state legislature has a long and ignominious history of underfunding its priorities, to the point that it is currently under a court order from the state Supreme Court to find new education funding.

Lord Triesman, a fatuous old fellow at times — you will remember he made a somewhat ignominious departure from the Football Association after confiding «state secrets» to an unreliable lady...

The fact that they haven't speaks volumes about her potential future performance in office, and foreshadows an end to her campaign as ignominious as her departure from Hewlett Packard.

The horses are mostly acquired from livestock auctions, and thereby spared a more ignominious fate.

Chris Smith was part of that 2004 side that was dumped out of the League in such ignominious circumstances, but Mills brought him back towards the end of the 2010 - 11 season before signing him permanently for 2011 - 12 and making him captain.

Poor Victor Valdes — a fine goalkeeper with medals rattling in his locker — had a rather ignominious start at Old Trafford thanks to Tyler Blackett's deflection against Arsenal.

Indeed, even those with more left - wing credentials, such as Angela Eagle, are now saddled with a voting record that ties them to the more ignominious parts of Labour's past, including the Iraq War.

And yet, as 2016 passes into ignominious history, we shouldn't assume that the passing year will take all its troubles with it.

Today, Hadoop the toy lives not on a shelf or in a case but in Cutting's sock drawer — a rather ignominious home for a company's namesake.

Few have had a more ignominious fall from grace than England international and Newcastle United midfielder Jonjo Shelvey.

Manchester City The reigning English champions, albeit a point ahead of Arsenal in the Premier League standings, endured a rather ignominious home defeat at the hands of Stoke City before the international break.

We find this to be repugnant to the Constitution, and a painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters of our national history.

Some Reds fans blame England's manager for such problems (especially after Hodgson's ignominious spell at Anfield) but the repetition of muscle problems has instead long suggested a deeper underlying issue.

Was my legal career to have a similarly ignominious premature ending?

We have seen a similarly ignominious chapter in our Canadian history, and it's not unforeseeable that those responsible may eventually be held accountable.

Feinstein covers the 2005 Q School in a narrative rich with round - by - round reportage and engaging stories about the participants from fresh - faced guys right out of college to former champs like Larry Mize, who won the 1987 Masters but, now in his late 40s, willingly suffers the somewhat ignominious Q School regimen in order to return to the greens of his past glory.

Upgrading means investors dump their illiquid / ignominious stocks in favor of more well known companies that are trading at a discount.

«Two players worth a combined # 100million in today's market are heading out the door for free in two of the longest and potentially most ignominious goodbyes in the club's history.

He was to be forever cast in the role of devil's agent, and never more so than in his two stunning, ignominious losses to Cassius Clay, then beginning to be known as Muhammad Ali.

But it is just too easy a path to a championship and not nearly as rewarding as knocking off the champions, which OKC failed to do in ignominious fashion.

Four attempts resulted in four falls that were at once ignominious, violent and surreal.

Following that ignominious second - half 3 - 2 collapse at the Allianz Arena after Bayern had taken a 2 - 1 lead, Louis van Gaal was soon sent packing, but Jupp Heynckes won't have to fear similar recriminations.

Newcastle have made an equally ignominious start to ourselves, and in their first two games of the season they lost 2 - 0 at home to Tottenham, and then 1 - 0 at newly - promoted Huddersfield.

We have seen a totally predictable decline in the quality of the football during that time... A significant change is required in 2015 if Blackpool FC is to be rescued from ignominious decline.»

Compper started his Hoops career in ignominious style, however, by passing straight to Ton attacker Gary Oliver, back in the side along with Frank Ross and Scott Tiffoney, but he was crowded out for a corner which Celtic defended.

Giving the Lib Dems ownership of the Afghanistan war would have its political attractions: the narrative from Helmand is likely to be one of ignominious retreat.

Would a male chief of staff, who helped Republicans take out Democratic incumbents for the first time since 1994, receive the same ignominious treatment as Gonzalez?

«We have no doubt in our mind that MEND, as a group contracted to go after Jonathan with the mind of assassinating him, has yet to abandon this criminal and ignominious craving.

Paul Dery petitioned the GJA last week to have the Journalist of the Year award conferred on investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, withdrawn, as he argued it promoted «unethical journalism «because Anas used ignominious methods in his investigations that uncovered corruption in Ghana's Judiciary.

The human rights group said, it has watched with awe, the macabre dance and ignominious development unfolding in the National Assembly; the allegations of corruption and counter allegations involving Hon Jubrin Abdulmumini and leadership of the Federal House of Representatives.

Assembly members and state senators were carried away on the tide, to federal courtrooms or ignominious resignation.

Characters major and minor in the story of nuclear science come alive in Mahaffey's lively, accessible retelling of some of the field's more obscure (and sometimes ignominious) moments.

But then Dennis Dugan, director of such ignominious Sandler films as «Happy Gilmore,» «You Don't Mess With the Zohan» and «I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry,» incessantly cuts between them admiring each others» zingers.

But when both of their careers stalled, they'd collaborate on The Room, a movie in which everyone involved was sure it would end in ignominious obscurity.

After His Royal Highness's ignominious first run goes into the books, the Ram plunges in and proceeds to decimate my performance.

That model is the Toyota Camry, a car that has had its own history of ignominious handling capabilities.

She has edited a number of their anthologies under the name T.K.F. Weisskopf, and won the Phoenix Award in 1994 for excellence in science fiction, the Rebel Award in 2000 for lifetime achievement in Southern Science Fiction Fandom, and in 1994 she was also awarded the tongue - in - cheek Rubble Award, given out annually to a fan or pro who has «done something humorously ignominious».

The pulp paperback is in its death throes, as mass market houses like Dorchester slink into ignominious bankruptcy.

A good many breed historians do agree that there was a deliberate attempt by non-German breeders to divorce the breed from its country of origin because of Germany's ignominious 20th - century behavior (much like German shepherds came to be known as Alsatian after the first World War).

But no: the plethora of palms, we learn, was one of many coded references in Broodthaers's work to Belgium's ignominious colonial past in the Congo.