Mortifying, indeed, thought Sherman.

(Dept. of Mortifying Amplification: I finally got the joke because someone explained it to me.

Gentlemen: Mortifying, yes.

When I was in school, we'd have been mortified to do any such thing.

The next five minutes were mortifying for both of them.

I'd be mortified in front of a man like that.

Can anyone think that their President was mortified at the performance?

"He would be mortified if this came out about my mother."

It was mortifying the way the man could turn her inside out with no more than a look.

I would have been mortified, but my character was all for it.

He was dependent on the other two, and mortified by the situation.

Then he stood up, with his back to the wall, and prepared to be mortified.

As a people we should be mortified at the quality of our representation.

If this had happened in the States, the singer would have been mortified.

For a moment she froze, mortified by What he had done.

But we shall not be able to mortify it, friend.

He still thought that she was mortified to be exposed in this way.

He was mortified that it should have been she who rescued him.

"I was mortified when he yelled out that they were for me," she said.

Whatever's going on, it's obviously mortifying her to do this.

The first thing he did was sneeze, which mortified him.

She'd been mortified when he returned with news that someone was in the garage.

He couldn't even look directly at those things, because she would have been mortified.

Now she was mortified to think she'd been fooling herself from the beginning.

The reminder mortified him, but how much more relaxed could a man get?

To mortify the soul is the only act of virtue.

I was mortified at being so used, never having been naked in front of anyone else, except a doctor.

She looked vexed, but not mortified as I would have been.

Why do you sit mortifying yourself in those arctic regions?

"I think there is no need for you to mortify yourself," said the Squire.

"You seek to mortify yourself and the human race," said Nicodemus.

Mortify yourself, throw yourself upon the tender mercy of the Lord in the hope that He will not torture you too long.

"Mortify yourself for offending Sister's modesty.