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Sentence Examples
A series of masterpieces followed, stories of male mortification leading to self-destruction.
When she re-emerged to the sounds of chortling, her face was red as a beet with mortification.
To my mortification, my backpack is being carried by a kid who looks all of 10 years old.
His descriptions of the practice of corporal mortification is also inaccurate, as is his representation of the cilice and the discipline.
But I'm so red in the face that I outrival a lobster, and the freshmen mistake my mortification for an admission of guilt.
Tears started to sting at my eyes, rising from the storm of fear and anger and mortification that raged somewhere around my stomach.
Scott's words on finding that he had been beaten reveal his bitter mortification and sense of failure.
He habitually practised mortification in order to gain the virtue of temperance, in keeping with the Franciscan style.
Last month I urged you to be especially vigilant in your spirit of mortification and penance.
The root of the word mortification is to die to oneself, to sacrifice, to put the other first.
Is not this mortification of nature essential to the work of grace in the supernatural life?
At 19, I suffered a kind of flinching, excruciating mortification.
In other words we need to reflect on our willingness to sacrifice, or what we call in our own Vincentian tradition, the virtue of mortification.
Then, with a desire to purify himself, he devotes himself to prayer and mortification.
Oddly, high society women adopted the same scenes of mortification in their make-up practices.
Care in little things requires constant mortification. It is a way to make life more agreeable for others.
It clung to the air like the fetid musk of cigar smoke and the bitter memories of shrill, choked words and insuppressible mortification.
What to most people would be cause for a minor outbreak of sheepishness can lead Knausgaard to suffer agonies of mortification.
This is the time to love passive mortification which comes, hidden perhaps or barefaced and insolent, when we least expect it.
But every single person watching must have experienced similar mortification at some point in their lives.
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And he did it while cavorting before the people, who loved him and always imagined him, somewhat to his mortification, dressed in cowboy gear.
Chastity is not a mortification of love but rather a condition for real love.
She longs for the spiritual power of ancient cultures, with their rituals of blood sacrifice, mortification of the body, and celebration of the earth mother.
The foreknowledge of guilt, mortification and a head that feels as though it has been opened with a tin-opener ought to inhibit any species capable of walking upright.
In dramatism, mortification becomes redefined through the context of the tragic frame.
I reflected what a mortification it must prove to me, to appear as inconsiderable in this nation, as one single Lilliputian would be among us.
Rosa overcame this crisis with trusting prayer and mortification.
Even if it is difficult it is not a mortification.
His penance and mortification find their most profound meaning as a preparation for that prayer of trustful abandonment in which a man puts himself completely into the hands of God.
His images, with their emphasis on redemption through fleshly mortification, suggest sources in heroic epics and penitential religion, filtered through Sade and extreme sports.
From childhood, everyone is called to mortification and fasting in order to grow in character and self-discipline, overcoming the desire to possess everything for oneself alone.
Another area of mortification was the struggle against fastidiousness and what he termed sensuality, but which was probably a concern for comfort.
According to his ascetical concept, mortification, particularly perfect obedience and humility, were the surest means to advance on the way toward sanctity.
After the time of fast and mortification is appropriate to sit by sumptuous table at which various types of meat, hard-boiled eggs and cakes should be found.
Examples from Classical Literature
Before the fine was paid, Miltiades expired of the mortification of his wound.
But having laughed and shamed his age out of one folly, he had the mortification of seeing it run headlong into another.
But as I was a fixin' it on, I see there was something more than mortification that ailed him.
Notwithstanding this mortification, the actress had no reason to be dissatisfied with her performance of Ariane.
The beauty spot on her hand, just by her little finger, had grown larger, and was as black as though mortification had set in.
If Black Tom had not been as bald as a bladder, he would have torn his hair in his mortification.
Not in a state of lenitive pain, sanative, and in some degree encouraging, but in a condition of incipient mortification.
On the 31st, to my mortification, the river held so much to the northward, that we undid almost all our southing.
And what is more to the purpose, it spared him the pain and mortification of knowing that he was gossipped about.
Belinda assured her that she felt no mortification from the disappointment.
Assist me to overcome sensuality by mortification, avarice by almsdeeds, anger by meekness, and tepidity by zeal.
It was thought that shame and mortification at his failure had driven him away for ever.
A new mortification for poor Cinderella, for it was she who had to iron her sisters' fine linen, and goffer their ruffles.
He was suffering from mortification, which is a sort of ingrowing anger, and the more it sunk in, the angrier he got.
I laid down the letter, and, full of mortification, went walking about the room.
And for one who was now wallowing in the martyrology, penance was the mortification of the flesh.
Others have sought in agony and mortification of mind the vision which was denied them.
Miss Ophelia looked keenly at him, and saw the flush of mortification and repressed vexation, and the sarcastic curl of the lip, as he spoke.
Adam's table manners were a frequent source of mortification to us all.
They were combined only of anger against herself, mortification, and deep concern.
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He had the further mortification of seeing the very Shadwell whom he had so unsparingly ridiculed replace him as poet laureate.
On the instant those at the table were keyed up and expectant, the servant was smugly pleased, and he was wallowing in mortification.
Tycho accordingly abandoned Hven in a tumult of rage and mortification.
But, to my mortification and surprise, you persisted, and still persist.
He had never been sent to school, lest he should meet with mortification.
Pride, anger, and mortification were rankling in her breast.
But on it went again, to our great surprise and mortification, till we gave it up in despair, and all wished ourselves at Jericho.
To the mortification of Quin, Garrick's chair came up first.
This was a terrible mortification to the high-spirited young man.
Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church?
But there is in my nature a strain of asceticism, and I have subjected my flesh each week to a more severe mortification.
I tried both ways, and when it came to a sniff or utter mortification and woe, he just threw the grammar on to the floor and marched out of the room.
This same shop-door had been a subject of No slight mortification to the present occupant of the august Pyncheon House, as well as to some of her predecessors.
It seemed that their society was famous for its offering to Hindu missions, and several said they should die of mortification if it should be less this year.
I never, never should have got over such a agonizing mortification.
But the scornful expression of the young man's eye admitted of so many constructions, that the worthy scout was spared the mortification of such a discovery.
Mortification of the buboes carried off such as experienced neither stupor nor frenzy, and they died at last exhausted by agony.
Mortification and disappointment, then, are specifics in a case of stubbornness.
