It's a form of catharsis that by mortifying flesh you will actually develop your spiritual side. |
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Roused to frenzy by the loss of his queen, the king goes in pursuit, belabouring whomsoever he finds and meeting with mortifying adventures. |
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I see why it would have been mortifying, especially against the psychological backdrop of the snakepit that was your school experience. |
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But then, if financial scandals made you blush, the entire reconstruction of the country would be pretty mortifying. |
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It's mortifying that my middle-aged mother is marrying a guy who is only four years older than me. |
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If there is no more posting for a few hours, it will be because the Professor is mortifying the flesh with whips, chains and other penitent aids. |
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But to repeat nonsense words with strange gurgling and burbling sounds while the cute new classmate watches from the next desk can be mortifying. |
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Labour Day marked the beginning of the final sprint. The close contest is mortifying for Democrats, though not a shock. |
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However, she knew how to make the most of opportunities for mortifying herself. |
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This practice must be combated, as the treatment is painful for the woman, who is in fact mortifying her flesh in order to please her partner. |
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The penitential attitude is not a mortifying attitude, which kills life and condemns it. |
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Failing to complete a lift in either half of the event — bombing out, in weight lifting terms — can be mortifying. |
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It is a means of mortifying some corrupt habits and of preparing the body to serve the soul in prayer. |
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Marianne finds this attention mortifying, as she thinks the Colonel, who is thirty-five and talks of flannel waistcoats, is too old to be a lover. |
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I'll share one that may not be the biggest lie I've ever told, but is certainly the most mortifying. |
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This of course exposed me to the mortifying risk of having my requests remain unanswered or worse, turned down. |
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But let us study the facts, who is the one that wants to release himself, liberate himself from the mortifying mind? |
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This arises in us like a bad dream, a mortifying reminder of what we have done which was bad. |
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There was little doubt that had the Supreme Court overturned his reform, it would have been mortifying. |
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When I was young priest, I was listening at length to the complainants and felt rather sorry about their reciprocal grievances, so that I finally entered into their ridiculous and mortifying game. |
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Gossip upsets us, we do not want anyone to gossip about us, however we were always involved in gossip and backbiting, talking badly about our fellowmen, mortifying the lives of others. |
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Scientific Meditation has ten basic fundamental rules. Without them the emancipation and liberation from the mortifying shackles of the mind becomes impossible. |
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In the difficult attempt of combining justice with the educational needs of the minor, the risk of mortifying the former without safeguarding the latter is real. |
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Like us, their output ranges from the mundane to the mortifying. |
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At least you didn't give him any photos to keep or send anything mortifying over the Internee Consider this a short chapter in your long life, and put it behind you. |
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A similarity that runs deeper than the differences in these two unrelated incidents, these separate times that we have allocated to monsterising and mortifying our teenagers. |
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Technically she was showing everyone in the hallway her hoo hoo. This is not so mortifying to me as it is to the brand new nursing students, many of them who are male. |
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