Sentences with word «indignity»

Meanwhile, they ignore plight of female Legislative staff suffering indignity of workplace sexual harassment.

If you suffer indignities with footwear they could be the answer to your prayers too.

; When the Mussulmans complained they were treated with indignity by the governor appointed by [Hulegu] and several of them were by his orders bastinaded.

It was the final indignity of a shambolic tournament for the Three Lions after they only managed to win one of their four games, despite the highest - ranked team they played being 24th in the FIFA rankings.

Noble soldiers have died; noble civilians have died for it and so many of the noble ones have suffered and continue to suffer all kinds of indignities for their principles and convictions.

An engaging, class - conscious Tantalus myth in which the condemned's only crime is her existence, the Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman subjects its twentysomething trans heroine, Marina Vidal (Daniela Vega), to a battery of indignities as grief and closure remain out of her reach, the frustration underscored by...

Whether immigrating, emigrating or just passing through, Africans suffer among the greatest indignities of cross-border travel, abroad and on the continent.

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.»

Despite poverty that made them scrounge for equipment and wonder if they'd have enough food to eat, and despite discrimination that subjected them to stinging slurs and other indignities from Anglos, these boys and the other 11 players on the 1949 Bowie Bears would win the first Texas high school baseball tournament ever staged.

Thus, as we bear witness to the parade of indignities inflicted on the elderly, beautiful Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) as she rapidly recedes from herself and the world around her, there's no sense that anything is to be gleaned or gained beyond the residue of vicarious suffering.

Like Kareem, Reggie, Billie Jean, O.J., Arnie and Pelé, Martina has outlived the need for a surname, which is just as well, because few athletes have suffered such indignities of mispronunciation as she.

If death is the ultimate loss of control, and if that is the ultimate human indignity inconsistent with life as autonomous self - possession, then there is no reason to ban or even disapprove of suicide for any mortal, rational, human being.

Screenwriters Buck Henry and Michel Zebede have stripped away the ickier elements of Philip Roth's dirty - old - man fantasy while ramping up the droll, dark comedy of indignity at its core.»

He argued that it is blasphemy of associating Christ's body with corruptibility of host's physical elements and so subject him to any physical indignities which it might undergo.

This was just one more daily indignity to the joyous and difficult and yet sometimes monotonous unending routine of caring for small children.

3 Not only has the horse been outgunned by the car, it faces the further indignity of not being able to keep up with itself.

Claiming himself a victim of mistaken identity, Sir Stephen won acquittal, but not without indignity.

The final indignity came on Wednesday night, when André Schürrle... well, you get the idea.

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.

From the positive test to the big push, from the first latch to the thousandth diaper, Earth Mama effectively supports the miraculous wonders and common indignities of motherhood with effective, natural herbal care.

A Texas man, once swimming in oil wealth but now reportedly fallen on hard times, has suffered the ultimate indignity — having his yacht seized by a lender.

And while Hannah's traumas are authentically dramatized, she's forced to endure so many indignities that, in total, she occasionally comes across as a symbolic vessel for an important message, rather than a flesh - and - blood human being.

My inaugural day at P.S. 183 included indignities like having my hair rubbed by one of my new classmates, a white girl who asked how I managed to comb it.

A Fantastic Woman, about a trans woman who suffers one indignity after another in the wake of her lover's death, is less of a challenge than an incessant finger wag: that we're supposed to be better than this.

To date, most screening bodies in North America have generally subjected all passengers to the same indignities.

Focusing on Joseph's emotions and experiences, this engrossing book paints a sympathetic picture of an intelligent man suffering countless indignities due to his diseased body.

He tries to keep it righteous, but struggles with the petty indignities of his shrinking world and diminishing expectations.

They use everyday indignities as the kindling for bonfires of discharged aggravation, in which the swift breakdown of protocol and etiquette points to a greater hollowness at the heart of modern society.

Employers need to expand the training of leaders to include awareness of micro aggressions and inequities, which could be referred to collectively as micro indignities.

Meanwhile, a minor subplot involving the various indignities visited upon a poor hotel critic is gross enough to fill kids with absolute glee.

But everyday annoyances and indignities remain.

I told her that the BC considered BM dating WW making up for past indignities and that any children resulting from that marriage had the BM's gene and therefore they were part black.

The autopsy notes one last indignity.

By 2008, after Miller Lite and Coors Light were gathered under the same corporate roof in the joint venture known as MillerCoors (which handles the U.S. markets of products from SABMiller (SBMRY) and MolsonCoors), the original faced a new indignity: It wasn't even the top - selling light beer at its own company.

What motivates politicians is pain: bad press, primary challenges (the worst indignity for career politicians), being forced into a roll call vote (going on the record: note this is NOT the same as voting to end debate on a bill — they all love doing that: it gives them cover from uniformed voters), angry constituents, fund raising disruptions, the list goes on.

In Iran, about 10 percent of Christians suffer serious indignities ranging from imprisonments to lashings, reported Christian van Gorder, a Baylor University religion professor.

They are willing to endure terrible indignities, just for a chance of passing their enormously unpopular and self - destructive policy agenda.

Despite offers to coach other NFL teams after resigning from the Niners, Walsh refused to stray from his roots and continued to serve the team even when doing so brought indignity: In 1996 Walsh spent a season as a consultant on Seifert's staff, but he was given a windowless office and was largely ignored.

Other students suffered similar indignities.

Micro-aggressions are described by Chester M Pierce as: brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of other races.

K «has an undignified enough life without the added indignity of menstruation.

The early part of Ron Howard's Skyward, though, details the various indignities experienced by Gilstrap's character, as Julie is, for example, embarrassed by her new teacher and unable to use the non-accessible girl's bathroom.

In episode 409, skeptics Penn and Teller examine the issue of reparations - reimbursing descendants of groups whose ancestors suffered racist indignities like slavery or forced relocation.

Suspenseful and hilarious, despondent and optimistic, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore is a masterful genre film, one that immerses itself in the small, painful indignities of everyday life, and then casts the battle against those wrongs as a serio - comic odyssey of sleuthing, heavy metal, and nunchakus.

The lesson of In Good Company is that while you can't predict the arbitrary indignities and calamities of life, you can at least be a victim to them comfortable in your own skin.

Perhaps the greatest indignity perpetrated by the corporate education reform industry is their fallacious claim that they represent the «new civil rights movement.»

The new - for - 2017 second - generation Panamera seen here doesn't suffer from the same aesthetic indignities — and completely blows the doors off any 928 in Turbo guise.

Embarrassment and indignity frequently accompany being disabled or disfigured from serious personal injury suffered in car accidents or construction accidents.