Sentences with phrase «petty indignities»

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Yet in Angieszka Holland's In Darkness, a chronicle of the last years of World War II in Lvov, Poland, it's the acts of petty sadism, the random indignities, that carry the strongest sting.

She is rarely absent from the screen and Lelio's camera seems always to be catching her character in the act of transcending loneliness, heroically defusing the internal opera of pain, rising above the thousand petty little indignities and hostilities that the world now wishes to add to the ordinary agony of her bereavement.

Lowry recalls himself and his task force colleagues suffering indignities, great and petty.