Sentences with word «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.

This death in ignominy and shame was soon to be celebrated in adoration by a mighty throng of confessors of Jesus.

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.

If this is the site of the Reformation discovery, man's powerlessness is joined by ignominy.

Bertha Lewis, the last CEO and «Chief Organizer» of ACORN before that group's descent into ignominy, wrote last week that while New York State political corruption is unfortunate, the real problem in New York is MWBE fraud.

Barry Cooper, the Calgary School political scientist, referred to it as «the final ignominy» and an «abrupt and shameful departure.»

In their latest misadventure, Frank and Casper inflict their particular brand of ignominy upon several of LA's denizens, including Isla Fisher, Adam Levine and Nikolaj Coster - Waldau («Game of Thrones»).

On the Mirror Football list of ignominy for dishing out verbal abuse by the truckload are Joey Barton, Mick McCarthy, Pat Rice and Jermaine Beckford.

Despite winning the 1991 US Championships when she became the first woman to successfully execute the gravity - defying triple axel, Harding's place in sports history is one of ignominy because of her suspected complicity in the clumsy attempt by her abusive husband Jeff Gillooly (played by Sebastian Stan) to hobble her elegant rival Nancy Kerrigan before the 1994 Winter Olympics.

Thus Allah layeth ignominy upon those who believe not.

Sometimes that approach to life yields greatness, other times ignominy.

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.

So what Owner in his right mind would subject his team to that potential ignominy?

They were probably rightly advised that even a committee grilling was likely to offer some opportunity to get their points over and avoided the PR ignominy of being branded cowardly or being dragged to parliament.

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

They assassinated him on the Ides of March to avoid the annual ignominy.

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.

After a century of mislabeled ignominy, the «thunder lizard» reclaimed its iconic genus name.

But a funny thing happened on the way to cinematic ignominy.

As Hanks's majesty draws you in close, Eastwood quietly pulls back to take in an effective contextual backdrop of global recession, bureaucratic ignominy and a city that feared the worst when it looked up and saw a passenger plane deviate off its flight path.

That title — and accompanying ignominy or praise (I'm not sure which one yet)-- goes to... Read more

Why should comics sit in a sweaty locker room of ignominy when novels and films and games skip about hand in hand with wealthy teenage girls?

... He damn well better not wake up gorked out in an electric - motor - powered hospital bed in some morose intensive - care unit listed as «critical but stable»... the mortifying ignominy of it!

Games that fail to innovate are, in general, destined for the bargain bin and general ignominy.

Castlevania went to the gutter, with multiple bad entries and misguided attempts at reboots, the same happened with Silent Hill, where we also had the added ignominy of being teased with a wonderful Hideo Kojima led reboot, before it was scuppered; speaking of Kojima, Konami drove him away after a widely publicized acrimonious split, putting Metal Gear Solid 5 to the market before it had a chance to be properly completed (and give long running fans actual closure).

Forget about the inglorious ignominy by Alexander Witt starring Milla Jovovich: the fourteen - year - old game title beats this monstrosity any time of the day without even noticing it.

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.

Granted, one unhappy customer could easily knock it down to 4.x star ignominy.

Because she lost the Olympics, because her career ended in ignominy, it is easy to forget that she was an unparalleled, world - class athlete.

But the results weren't replicable, and the field sank into ignominy.

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.

Like the ancient and resilient insect that, it is said, will inherit a nuclear devastated earth, the Alberta Liberal Party has survived all manner of ignominy and near extinction in its century and a...

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.

Rodrigues has never met a Japanese person, and is horrified when he finally encounters one in a bar in Macao: the filthy, drunk, deceitful Kichijirō, whom he later discovers to be a Christian apostate who fled Japan in ignominy.

This is reason enough why today she is placed below and that she bears within her ignominy and shame.»

We know there are no cliffs Here on the Texas Gulf Coast, where Everything is flatter than the ignominy of all Having drunkard fathers and ignorant Ways of living.

Clearly there came a time in the church's wrestling with the ignominy of its leader having died the death of a common criminal, a rebel against the rule of Rome, that transformed its negativity into something so positive it could be named «Good Friday.»

His infidel flatterers hastened to his chamber to prevent his recantation; but it was only to witness his ignominy and their own.

He died as true saints die, in ignominy, in mockery, in the disdain of a spiteful and vile society.

It says that we are not afraid to be linked with Christ and the ignominy of his death.

Such myths were invented to explain why man was superior to the animals in having god - like knowledge and amazing creative abilities like speech, yet still suffered the ignominy of death along with all the other animals.