To stray from this routine was to risk the small humiliations that can make of childhood too much a matter of growing up.

Each step was a small humiliation.

Granted: growing up as a black man in the South means daily humiliations, large and small.

But it can also mean putting up with small culinary humiliations and an unending patter of condescending remarks.

She'd gotten over that small humiliation by burying her face in the account books.

Mr. Kravitz, who has lived 62 of his 68 years here, is a repository of his city's small and large humiliations.

She understood that the small humiliations he had' ocCasion to subject her to were mere tests of her loyalty.

Some have autobiographical implications, while others relate to the small humiliations and all-too-common conflicts that often do lasting damage.

It was one of countless small humiliations in my gum-besotted life.

The small humiliations begin early, he said.