Inspired even through her dread, Firebird dropped the patches into her punch cup and swirled it, remembering one of Phoena's favorite minor indignities.

A sparkling sardonic humor plays over the opening of this short novel, gracefully translated by Paul Vincent, as it explores the pleasures and minor indignities of renown, the squirreling away of perceptions, the struggle against creeping decrepitude.

But I find that if I demoralize you completely at the start, everything thereafter has a delicious sense of despair to it, even the comparatively minor indignities.

We're talking instead about death from a thousand cuts: the minor indignities of New York living that tear relentlessly at the soul and, ultimately, the body.

You will accordingly without fuss walk over to that chair"-he motioned with his right hand-"and you will submit to manacles and other such minor indignities.

Friendship meant minor indignities.

Corporeal life is not without its minor indignities.

Then there were the other minor indignities faced by less glamorous passengers.

Considering his sport-shattering achievements, Shcherbo is remarkably patient about these minor indignities.

He was released on 25 October, saying that he suffered only minor indignities.