Sentences with phrase «ritual humiliations»

The so - bad - it's - good phenomenon has always struck me as disingenuous anyway, a hipper - than - thou version of the ritual humiliations we all remember from grade school.

Cowritten by Brooks and Monica Johnson, this satire of Hollywood is embellished with sharp, frequently hilarious observation of its ritual humiliations and shallow social and professional interactions, with notable contributions from Jeff Bridges as a self - absorbed Oscar - winning screenwriter friend, Steven Wright as Stan Spielberg («I'm Steven's cousin»), and Martin Scorsese in a self - parodying cameo.

It is exactly the same as the great ritual humiliations of the Tudor courts, half a millennia ago - from the bawdy public songs to the self - important constitutional contortions of the great and good.

But St. Totteringham's day is, in spirit, a ritual humiliation, celebrated by Arsenal fans whenever their club are mathematically certain to finish above Tottenham Hotspur in the league.

The media likes to call it «tough love», but the ritual humiliation and bullying of someone you are politically and financially reliant on is not love: it is clear - cut sexual depravity.

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The problem is that, once individuals have been violated / humiliated / physically hurt in the name of joining the organization, they are more likely to escalate the next ritual event to another level of violence and humiliation when they take on the roles of leader / perpetrator.

Whether the initiation ritual revolves around doing silly things like dressing up in weird clothes during school or singing amusing songs at a school assembly, the activity should not be one that creates such anger and humiliation that the young student vow to get revenge.

Children must learn to shut up and endure the empty rigours of the juku, or cramming school, for the sake of a distorted kind of honour — one that also sends their business - men fathers to a notorious management training school for ritual self - humiliation.

obedient Mpls slave, 43, seeks older, aggressive selfish Master, especially with experience in s / m, b & d, extreme humiliation, ritual, enforced chastity, display, dehumanization, master / slave, etc. pain and safety limits, but psychological abuse, humiliation, etc, no limit.

Human moments, however, give way always to the exhausting task of navigating the social order of recovery, and the film remains steadfastly committed to depicting the same degrading ritual time and again: hauling yourself up to the pharmacist's counter to guzzle down one more dose, the humiliation nearly unbearable save for the fact that it's shared.

If there's lasting value to what appears so far to have been a fear - driven, pro forma, ritual public humiliation of Gleick, it might lie in further exploration of the full implications of AGU's hasty and incomplete response.