Typically, said stories concern outlandish, humiliating, humorous, terrifying, or supernatural events — events which, in thetelling, always happened to someone else.
One of its spokesmen told foreign journalists that the action had been carried out to avenge the humiliating treatment of its members by Nigeria's army and police.
I thought of all the things I might have said and done, which I hadn't said or done, in the bitter, humiliating moments when just to ask for a crust of bread is to make yourself less than a worm.
To persecute or harass with meaningless, difficult, or humiliating tasks.
That programme was born out of the country's humiliating loss of East Pakistan in 1971.
To make the experience still more humiliating, the team provided negative feedback through headphones, all the while checking participants for indications of stress, such as high blood pressure.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Tuesday he would resign after suffering a humiliating setback in parliament that showed a party revolt had stripped him of a majority.
It was one of the most humiliating moments of my life.
When he denied that, she resorted to violent, humiliating denouncements in the kitchens, the winery, the plantations.
Mothers, wives, and daughters have been threatened with acid in the face, or honor-killing, or vicious beating, if they do not adopt the humiliating outer clothing that is mandated by their menfolk.
Good sportsmanship means acknowledging victories without humiliating opponents, being quietly proud of success, and letting victories speak for themselves.
Isaacson begins with Jobs's humble origins in Silicon Valley, the early triumph at Apple, and the humiliating ouster from the firm he created.
But, at least at first, "the Moment of Truth" is hypnotic, and not just because the questions are so humiliating.
They were not only humiliating, but also 22 excruciating.
My "adviser" was the Scots incarnation of Little Britain's Pauline, who relished humiliating people better qualified than herself: "We have to find ways of hiding the fact you've got a PhD," she said.
He badly wanted her, but all the past insults and humiliating scenes welled up inside him.
Besides agreeing that the rules were too expansive, the judges criticised the discretion given to individual coppers and worried that public searches could be humiliating.
It is a humiliating climbdown for a country that, until a few months ago, imported Polish workers to do its grimy jobs.
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