This is the time to love passive mortification which comes, hidden perhaps or barefaced and insolent, when we least expect it. |
Last month I urged you to be especially vigilant in your spirit of mortification and penance. |
At 19, I suffered a kind of flinching, excruciating mortification. |
But I'm so red in the face that I outrival a lobster, and the freshmen mistake my mortification for an admission of guilt. |
What to most people would be cause for a minor outbreak of sheepishness can lead Knausgaard to suffer agonies of mortification. |
Tears started to sting at my eyes, rising from the storm of fear and anger and mortification that raged somewhere around my stomach. |