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ignominy
1. art by letting it suffer the ignominy of adaptation to “the commercial requirements of the market”
2. evening, I suffered the ignominy of climbing into bed and
3. The ignominy of an unjust decision, when it was to be divided among five hundred, a thousand, or fifteen hundred people (for some of their courts were so very numerous), could not fall very heavy upon any individual
4. that his heart may discover itself; when the wicked comes, then contempt comes also, and with the ignominy comes reproach; the
5. they punished and destroyed with ignominy every polluted Jew who fell in their way; 15 killing such, in that day, above three
6. 14 Then they punished and destroyed with ignominy every polluted Jew who fell in their way; 15 killing such in that day above three hundred men and esteeming this destruction of the wicked a season of joy
7. Ambrosius was puzzled by this comment, so he dismissed it as a philosophical statement about the ignominy of wealth
8. When Nehru died broken-hearted, after the demise of his pet Panchsheel in the ignominy of a defeat at the Chinese hands, the Indian democracy had had its first triumph as the humble Lal Bahadur Shastri made it to the premier post
9. That’s why this great empire was afflicted with calamity, weakness and ignominy, to the point where it became totally insolvent
10. You voted for someone who had the ignominy to conduct their presidential campaign with the maturity and dignity of a junior high cafeteria food fight, the same level of debate – 'Un uh, U R, not me', and impracticality of suggesting fantasy superhero solutions to real world preternatural predators of profit at all your cost
11. "And when Our judgment came to pass, We delivered Saleh through Our Mercy form the ignominy of that day together with those who shared his faith
12. The Almighty has mentioned in His Holy Book that the Israelites have been afflicted by ignominy and misery, and they have incurred the wrath of Al'lah and to be homeless in the faraway lands
13. "Ignominy attend them wherever they are found except by an assistance of God or of men
14. If he does, God will withdraw the ignominy from him
15. Thus shall the oppressors be rewarded”; thus, any one in all of creation that says, “I do, I make” will end up in ignominy and humbleness
16. Thus shall the oppressors be rewarded”, means that ignominy and lowness will be the result
17. In retrospect, I can vividly recollect the various hunches which I treated with ignominy and levity, but which I now realise were kind of inkling intended to reveal to me the identity of Ben Thomas
18. As his ignominy with Cecilia finally faded to a murky smear in the back of his consciousness, Joseph found that memory replaced by lingering impressions of the dream girl
19. 24), 'The wicked in their lifetime are called dead, and their soul is to be destroyed with the ignominy of the body, and will not have immortality
20. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and rosaries who constantly drone into our ears 'Duty, duty!' Ah! by Jove! one's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us
21. Was she now to endure the ignominy of his abandoning her? That would only be superficial and temporary
22. One human being had seemed to love him and he had denied her life and happiness: he had sentenced her to ignominy, a death of shame
23. He looked now more care-worn and emaciated than as we described him at the scene of Hester's public ignominy; and whether it were his failing health, or whatever the cause might be, his large dark eyes had a world of pain in their troubled and melancholy depth
24. Prynne had lived through her first hours of public ignominy
25. Hester Prynne did not now occupy precisely the same position in which we beheld her during the earlier periods of her ignominy
26. Strengthened by years of hard and solemn trial, she felt herself no longer so inadequate to cope with Roger Chillingworth as on that night, abased by sin, and half maddened by the ignominy that was still new, when they had talked together in the prison-chamber
27. Thus, we seem to see that, as regarded Hester Prynne, the whole seven years of outlaw and ignominy had been little other than a preparation for this very hour
28. If the minister's voice had not kept her there, there would nevertheless have been an inevitable magnetism in that spot, whence she dated the first hour of her life of ignominy
29. themselves yet more wisely, and received the ignominy and shame that was cast upon them, with so much meekness and patience, that it won to their side, though but few in comparison of the rest, several of the men in the fair
30. He made use of it with a cold, fearless scorn, manifested rather than concealed by the forms of stony courtesy which did away with much of the ignominy of the situation
31. the endlessness of civil strife, whose folly seemed even harder to bear than its ignominy
32. her, who would have torn her to bits with their whispers! To be sheltered by Melanie’s Oh, the ignominy of it all, to be sheltered behind Melanie’s skirts from those who hated blind trust, Melanie of all people!
33. Raffles, recovering quickly, returning to the free use of his odious powers—how could Bulstrode wish for that? Raffles dead was the image that brought release, and indirectly he prayed for that way of release, beseeching that, if it were possible, the rest of his days here below might be freed from the threat of an ignominy which would break him utterly as an instrument of God's service
34. Dunk wondered if the master of games was deliberately matching the hedge knights against each other, so no lordling need suffer the ignominy of losing to one in the first round
35. That the Vikings could make butter as well, knowledge they also brought to the French, makes the ignominy complete
36. 31 at the bear market lows in 2002, saving itself from the ignominy of the affair by buying out and changing its name to Time Warner, Inc
37. Ignominy thirsts for consideration
38. That is good! Be an honest man yourself; remain Monsieur le Maire; remain honorable and honored; enrich the town; nourish the indigent; rear the orphan; live happy, virtuous, and admired; and, during this time, while you are here in the midst of joy and light, there will be a man who will wear your red blouse, who will bear your name in ignominy, and who will drag your chain in the galleys
39. It certainly is sad that turpitude heaped up should give a sum total of gayety, that by piling ignominy upon opprobrium the people should be enticed, that the system of spying, and serving as caryatids to prostitution should amuse the rabble when it confronts them, that the crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half dung, half light, roll by on four wheels howling and laughing, that they should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there would be no festival for the populace, did not the police promenade in their midst these sorts of twenty-headed hydras of joy
40. You would have also had to face the ignominy of a maximum decline of 95 percent
41. And how could he keep this young man from knowing his defeat, from hearing the adventure of the pin and all the ignominy of Henry Morgan’s dealings with La Santa Roja? The pistol which had killed Jones was lying on the floor
42. "Have they ever subjected you to cruelty and ignominy, Dejah Thoris?" I asked, feeling the hot blood of my fighting ancestors leap in my veins as I awaited her reply
43. But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen
44. Little did I then expect the calamity that was in a few moments to overwhelm me and extinguish in horror and despair all fear of ignominy or death
45. ignominy of this affair rested as an indelible disgrace upon her husband, as the only
46. For instance, a strange reflection suddenly occurred to me, that if I had lived before on the moon or on Mars and there had committed the most disgraceful and dishonourable action and had there been put to such shame and ignominy as one can only conceive and realise in dreams, in nightmares, and if, finding myself afterwards on earth, I were able to retain the memory of what I had done on the other planet and at the same time knew that I should never, under any circumstances, return there, then looking from the earth to the moon—should I care or not? Should I feel shame for that action or not? These were idle and superfluous questions for the revolver was already lying before me, and I knew in every fibre of my being that it would happen for certain, but they excited me and I raged
47. But the spirit of folly, which had caught up Fyodor Pavlovitch, and was bearing him on the current of his own nerves into lower and lower depths of ignominy, prompted him with this old slander
48. I loved vice, I loved the ignominy of vice
49. On the contrary, a man of lofty feelings, whose love is pure and full of self-sacrifice, may yet hide under tables, bribe the vilest people, and be familiar with the lowest ignominy of spying and eavesdropping
50. Of his jealousy he spoke warmly and at length, and though inwardly ashamed at exposing his most intimate feelings to “public ignominy,” so to speak, he evidently overcame his shame in order to tell the truth
