self-humiliation

Despite our self-humiliation, we may well be lucky that it was not over something bigger.

One television producer tries to trap callers in a game of self-humiliation.

He added: "Taking off a turban is the greatest form of self-humiliation.

A countersubject moves in the opposite direction to illustrate the self-humiliation.

Attacking common religious practices of sacrifice and self-humiliation, he soon builds up a sizeable following.

It was a bit dull, maybe, but it wasn’t a wrenching exercise in self-humiliation.

I'm not big on self-humiliation these days.

Similarly we may see the nutter as a pathetic figure who has to resort to self-humiliation in order to establish an identity for himself.

On their dying day, Poland’s communists managed one last perversity, a final and unwitting act of utter self-humiliation.

Pilgrimage and self-humiliation were also occasionally imposed.

And Celebrity Fit Club is the ultimate in self-humiliation.

All the funniest things the BBC ever did were based on some sort of humiliation: usually, self-humiliation.

Self-humiliation.

The feminist assumption, apparently, is that in a state of true equality, no one would agree to engage in this kind of self-humiliation for pay.

Christian authors have interpreted Zechariah 9:9 as a prophecy of an act of messianic self-humiliation.

Granted, it is not easy to parody the circus of self-display and self-humiliation that so much of the bottom-feeder fare on television has become.

Yet Mr. Boylan still makes his point: the aptitude for self-humiliation among famous and powerful people now plays on a wider stage.

Weeping became a self-humiliation, an acknowledgement of one's unworthiness before the god, used only to appeal to Yahweh in the hope of influencing His decisions.

As the words broke from Christie, she covered up her face, bowed down with the weight of remorse that made her long to atone for what she had done by any self-humiliation.

It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!

- Changing faces is too expensive, - I begin my self-humiliation, - It's stupid to botch up Schwartzenegger or Stallone from yourself, and I can't afford hiring the image specialist.

However, others question her popularity, wondering how she became an overnight sensation when her fame is based upon what they view as shameless self-humiliation, and criticizing her for being a negative influence on Chinese youth.

Men's coach Liu Guanglie said Wang's place on the national team was not at risk, but that he would be required to perform the uniquely Chinese form of ritual self-humiliation at their next training gathering.

Had she not been blinded by her pride and wrath, and self-humiliation, - which she was, fiercely as she bent her gaze upon him, - she would have seen the answer in his face.