Sentences with phrase «indignity at»

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.»

It's about basic respect for laboring women as people and patients, not inanimate objects who should submit cheerfully to any pain (such as the chronic pain associated with my C - section scar) and any indignity at the hands of doctors who threaten and abuse their patients.

Sebastián Lelio's («Gloria») film charts Marina's subsequent indignities at the hands of authorities and her lover's relatives, and it's one gradually percolating blood - boiler.

Even though she endured a lot of indignities at the hands of her employers she used her wits to advance her station while not allowing her employers to take away her pride.

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In the intervening 17 hours, a compounding series of misfortunes — a broken de-icing machine, frozen engines and brakes, a lack of gates at the terminal, a plane that idled so long it had to refuel, a crew that worked so long it needed to be replaced — turned the flight into an almanac of the indignities of modern air travel.

There are other examples of speculation such as some European junk bonds trading at yields so low that no company should ever have to suffer the indignity of bankruptcy but for pure entertainment value you can't beat Jesus coin.

I was pleased to see it on display at the press conference I watched last night, when the president spoke so eloquently about the flight of his friend, poor Skip Gates, and the indignity he had to endure from a racially insensitive white police officer.

When propositions of artificial insemination subsequently arise, a husband who has done this often feels unable to protest at their indignity — the indignity that any one else should take over a role which belongs only to him.

He broke his neck in 2015, which meant that, among other indignities and scares, he had to stand on the sideline here at University of Phoenix Stadium and watch Clemson finish just short of doing the unthinkable against Alabama.

The final indignity came by a score of 41 - 3 at perennial power De La Salle - Concord.

And as if these various indignities weren't enough, it turns out they're also rubbish at making films.

That's one last mild indignity forced upon Arsenal by Wenger's recalcitrance, a final tribute to his last decade at the Emirates.

The indignities of old age would be lessened with plastic glasses and dentures until death carried the plastic man away, at which point he would be buried «hygienically enclosed in a plastic coffin.»

Often lured by middlemen (or drugged, beaten, and otherwise coerced), donors end up with a few hundred to a few thousand dollars and a scar at the waist that has become an emblem of exploitation and human indignity.

The brothers soon become inseparable, with Luc constantly at Thomas» side as he vainly struggles against the disease and confronts the indignity of treatment.

Yet it's equally clumsy at making sense of its portrayals of the indignities that Asian Americans routinely endure.

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.

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.

Simultaneously, Miyagi is exposed to the indignities of being mortified by walking in on a brassiere'd Julie, wandering into her wet stockings hanging in the shower, and deadpanning his incredulity at the stupidity of the girly breed.

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.

Until it gets too obvious about itself (somewhere around the halfway mark (like an addict nursing a jones, as it happens)-RRB-, that sense of futile outrage at the fruitlessness of trying to affect change in a world that has never been more informed yet remains incapable of avoiding (recent) history's harshest lessons lends a nice feeling of indignity to what is already a pretty fair genre inversion.

Even so, despite failure after failure after indignity, he persists in his mission, more tenaciously than you and I would — and admit it, wince as we might at Dwight's gaffes, we'd make them too.

Logan, the Wolverine, is at the end of his life and suffering all the indignities of age.

This last is best exemplified by the «Delirium» section featuring Christian Slater as Joe's beloved dying father and it is remarkably affecting, showing von Trier's astonishing ability to manipulate the tone of his films and still remain coherent: here he is completely un-ironic, completely serious, employing no sly wink, only a finely channeled fury at fate, and perhaps God, for the unbelievable injustice and indignity of death.

The weight of everyone is on her's shoulders: her son who is at war, her husband who must abide daily indignities, the white family's illnesses and needs, and her own sense of justice for her family.

There was the indignity of still being called «boy» at the age of 65.

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.

The Boxster's soft convertible top is power - operated as a standard feature, and with a simple push of a button, the driver can let the roof down while driving at speeds of up to 31 mph — unlike competing vehicles that require the driver to suffer the indignity of waiting until the car's at a full stop.

Her father had gone to his grave railing against all the indignities he had suffered at the...

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.

At least I wasn't the only one to have to put up with this indignity.

Did you know that its statistically provable that anyone daring to even look at working in the creative industries can expect a life of grinding poverty, depression, lack of financial support and opportunities and to die a sad and lonely death, possibly resulting in being eaten by your own pets as a final indignity?

The final chapter, Living Labor (2013), which was produced for the artist's solo exhibition at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and will be shown at the Palais de Tokyo and Institut français» off - site exhibition in Chicago, curated by Katell Jaffrès and entitled Singing Stones, is sited in New York, where five undocumented workers tell of exploitative working conditions, indignity, and invisibility in the United States.

A handful keep going, driven by motors rescued from old record players and their collective indignity, and one can depress a foot pedal to trigger the remaining sculpture at will.

A Salt Lake City native, once a student at the San Francisco Art Institute, McCarthy has made his name with performances - and their residue of destroyed sets and soiled costumes and props - that make burlesque of perversions he sees underlying everyday society, and of human indignity generally.

These more contemplative sequences — accompanied by a free - floating voiceover and new musical score — are punctuated by explosively violent chunks of internet footage, at once comical and wince - inducing, featuring bone - crunching indignities visited on the human body.

follows Darlene as she navigates the indignities of watermelon picking at Delicious Foods.

AT THE START OF HER CAREER, Kara Walker was first recognized for her mural - sized narrative silhouettes — cut paper depictions of the imagined indignities and violence experienced by blacks in the antebellum South.

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But it seems that with Editions making their way to their new owners and the idea of a watch that costs as much if not more than most people's cars, we've just accepted the price and have pivoted our shock and indignity to target not those who buy the Edition at all, but those who buy the Edition for obviously stupid reasons.