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"mortifying" Definitions
  1. making somebody feel very ashamed or embarrassed
"mortifying" Synonyms
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LaBeouf previously called the incident "mortifying" in an Esquire interview.
Where do you go to reveal your mortifying Tinder experiences?
Trump raised that prospect two weeks ago, but to mortifying ends.
There wasn't the mortifying immediacy digital photography has blessed us with.
"It's mortifying, it's so sad," he says in the same clip.
Even more mortifying (it gets worse!), I uncontrollably burst into tears.
It's been both mortifying and vaguely heartening to hear from everyone.
It's also thrilling, bewildering, campy, shrewd, mortifying, scary, devastating and deep.
In one mortifying instance, he could not fit into a cab.
It's one of the most mortifying yet impressive injuries we've ever seen.
No more odor sprays, Vicks VapoRub, missing nails, and mortifying beach days.
It was mortifying, and we couldn't find a pin or sewing kit.
Anyone who uses Snapchat has probably suffered a mortifying moment or two.
You could trust no one, a very unpleasant, mortifying and omnipresent feeling.
But the bottom line is, Pope Francis joked about Trump's weight. Mortifying. pic.twitter.
There can't be many things more mortifying than having your marriage proposal rejected.
When it came it was unsparing, richly detailed and mortifying for the President.
I can't even fathom how absolutely mortifying and horrific their experience must've been.
Nice and dandy, but UCLA's hawkeyed student section caught one mortifying mistake. USC.
But I'm trying to think of something that was actually mortifying. Nothing. Hmm.
But when they're bad, the social impact can be far-reaching and truly mortifying.
To kick things off let's get the most mortifying merch out of the way.
But history, however mortifying, demeaning or sickening, cannot be erased with cloaks and censure.
It was a mortifying but innocent incident, the result of a nasty stomach bug.
I suppose the question here is what's more mortifying: pit stains or armpit fans?
For Ms. Benkmis, her weekly visits are a mortifying reminder of her lost station.
Lucky for us, when the press conference concluded there was another equally mortifying goodbye shake.
That's an error so mortifying an author might feel compelled to hide in the bushes.
It was so mortifying … I didn't think that all the kids' parents would be there.
This was mortifying for Sam, who had already been told she smelled "sour" by Ben.
Her mother used to ask children to come over for play dates (which was mortifying).
Far worse things have happened in my life, but nothing has felt quite as mortifying.
I studied what happened when Missouri followed this approach—and the results were downright mortifying.
And her husband's alleged affairs are in the news practically daily, which must be mortifying.
In this case, they doomed them, imparting garbage values and mortifying them along the way.
It was the kind sitcom characters sometimes cough up at a mortifying wedding — or funeral.
Ask anyone who's lived abroad and they'll have absolutely mortifying language screw ups to share.
The humiliated t-shirt wearers estimated that around half the group would recall their mortifying attire.
Chand also underwent a chromosome analysis, an M.R.I. and a gynecological exam that she found mortifying.
My mother had normalized what I thought was going to be a mortifying experience for me.
I find talking about my art frustratingly tedious and talking about myself a wholly mortifying experience.
Below are seven stories from people who experienced thoroughly mortifying moments at some point during school.
Are Markle, and Meghan's equally mortifying half-sister, Stephanie Grant, trying to heartlessly ruin the Duchess's day?
It was a mortifying development that has rattled some of the party's big-money men and women.
So the fact that I hurt a group that I've benefited from is absolutely mortifying to me.
Everybody sort of stared at him like he was such a freak, and it was just mortifying.
About one act into the new Indian movie Pad Man, a man experiences a brutal, mortifying pad leak.
And, hopefully, it will lead to slightly less mortifying results for next year's Food Literacy and Engagement poll.
There is much, much more where that came from, a veritable catalogue of mortifying medical conditions and procedures.
Shia LaBeouf's 2017 arrest may have been "mortifying," but he's grateful that it helped turn his life around.
He made his own body a symbol, mortifying it through fasting or marching for political and spiritual change.
Henry Clay, secretary of state for the defeated President John Quincy Adams, called Jackson's victory 'mortifying and sickening.
Or, you push on said doors, annoying the stalls' occupants, and risking a mortifying encounter if the door's unlocked.
If transportation safety is too mortifying to share on social media, they can submit their entries online at www.beyondthedrivingtest.com.
Bad enough I had a hard time reading; having to go to a hospital to fix it was mortifying.
Reliving moments from your Facebook timeline may be mortifying, but not so for the timeline of rock n' roll.
While Minaj later referred to the incident as "mortifying," Cardi is seemingly embracing it as an absurdist life moment.
Here are 22 of the most mortifying stories, as told by the waiters, waitresses and bartenders of Reddit. 210.
You know when you bomb at Guitar Hero and the stupid fake plastic guitar makes all those mortifying squeals?
In one anecdote, Tashiro tells the mortifying story of his first awkward dance with a girl in junior high.
But in a crucible like Saturday's round of 19583 match at the European Championships, it is, quite simply, mortifying.
And Sex Education feels like the extended therapy session we needed to work through all that buried, mortifying trauma.
I glance nervously at the rest of my tour group, hoping none of them are witnessing this mortifying episode.
TH: So you're saying it's not the mortifying, "everyone will remember me for this" ordeal we think it is?
They have given him humiliating headlines to go along with the mortifying ones that he already had in abundance.
Stuff that, were it to get out, would be mortifying for anyone with even a shred of self-respect.
ROBERTA In a slightly mortifying third reference to my mother, let me tell you how she handled this problem.
"If we hadn't taken it to Broadway, after doing it in London, it would have been mortifying," she said.
Freshmen walked the "infinite corridor" of the main building as their parents took photos and consulted maps, mortifying their children.
There are few things more mortifying than being a preteen and needing to ask someone about good old Aunt Flo.
After all, I'm looking forward to mortifying my kids in many ways; sex talks hopefully won't be one of them.
Our AIM personas were carefully crafted, and based upon that now-mortifying reminder of our younger selves: the screen name.
"I almost took it as a challenge to put myself in situations that everyone else would find mortifying," he says.
With a nine-minute compilation of videos mortifying her adolescent sister, the OP definitely wins award for most embarrassing sibling.
A man in cargo shorts, whom the ringmaster had pulled from the audience, was dancing in front of everybody—mortifying!
I mean, if you haven't experienced at least one mortifying lipstick-on-your-teeth moment, you're an anomaly, my friend.
I'm singling out these three somewhat randomly, but also because they've traveled particularly self-mortifying journeys away from self-respect.
In November, a video of the "Buttigieg Dance" — a sequence of mortifying moves that Pete Buttigieg supporters set to Panic!
Through a collection of essays, Oakley's literary debut reveals intimate stories of his past that are equal parts mortifying and hilarious.
It's clear she's recovered from the mortifying treadmill spill she endured while jogging to Drake and Future's "Jumpman" earlier this month.
Unlike "Martin," these characters mostly manage to pull off the ruse, and when they do, it is simultaneously gratifying and mortifying.
Jenner got her first breakout on the eve of her first day of high school, and "it was just mortifying," she recalls.
Obama voicing his disappointment in men, especially those making front-page headlines, comes after a particularly mortifying week for President Donald Trump.
She never gets out of a single awkward situation; she just enters into a newer, more mortifying one and redirects the heat.
I mean, aside from having the mortifying memory of a living noodle crawling inside you rent-free for at least two weeks.
You can imagine, then, how mortifying it was when my parents sat me down to give me the talk — at age 18.
Partway through Genevieve Pascolla's flight from London to Chicago earlier this month, she woke up from a nap to a mortifying sight.
The past few days of political news have been the sort of high drama that makes for compelling fiction and mortifying reality.
In his new book, "Trailblazer," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recounts a mortifying story of how his plans to buy Twitter were crushed.
Sometimes the mortifying ordeal is a pane of glass or a cartoon boulder, but it's always standing between you and being loved.
The kind of minefield that risks a mortifying, all-office "Reminder NOT to heat curry in the microwave" email if executed incorrectly.
The interludes based on symphonic works Toscanini did conduct are mortifying to the extent they are hijacked to serve as program music.
I am a bar-hopping, 20-something Uber customer — and this patent application that the ride-sharing company just applied for sounds mortifying.
"Funnily enough, Lily had recently complained that her famous parents and their mortifying ways would be "the reason I won't get into college.
But in context it does deserve some attention as the most confident and mortifying own-goal in the history of politics or sports.
If you created a now-mortifying username when the app first launched six years ago, there is no way to change that username.
Telling GQ it's "mortifying" for him to do a photo shoot like this, the comedian admits the spotlight takes some getting used to.
Trump's phone conversation last weekend with Australian Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull was no less mortifying and vindictive than the one with Peña Nieto.
"I think that I can safely say that since '76, we haven't experienced a clean Olympics, which is, I think, mortifying," Sterkel said.
And the growing influx of immigrants — even before the late-1840s famine in Ireland — was mortifying the city's Protestant, Anglophile and nativist majority.
There's no political afterlife in this equation, just the loopy, mortifying limbo in which he and so many of Trump's other acolytes dwell.
There are few things in this world as profoundly awkward and mortifying for a guy than trying to ejaculate into a tiny plastic cup.
It sounds pretty mortifying, having a video time capsule of your dorkiest years, but each kid handles it with charming touch of existential embarrassment.
The people who were the object of the prank—along with pretty much everyone else—were completely pissed off by the whole mortifying joke.
Naturally, Lacie chooses the latter option, arriving to the wedding a muddy, disheveled mess and insisting on giving the world's most mortifying wedding toast.
But the fondest desire of British crime writers is to locate some wildly eccentric person, preferably of noble blood, caught in some mortifying situation.
It also turns the high-middlebrow Cavendishes into lowbrows, and Bert and Kitty, who in the original are merely "mediocre," into mortifying no-talents.
The Dallas Cowboys were well on their way to a 30-10 thumping of the Giants, whose record tumbled to a mortifying 2-21.
Um, remember when the mortifying performances of way-too-confident hopefuls was the most talked-about thing during the early episodes of American Idol?
Instead, the health care legislation unraveled in mortifying fashion, leaving Republicans unable to follow through on their central argument for being put in power.
For those inherently curious about the lives of others,  Blackout allows a level of headspace-contained voyeurism that is as fascinating as it is mortifying.
Nicki Minaj called her public fight with Cardi B "so mortifying and so humiliating," but Cardi B appears ready to make jokes about it now.
Beyond the long-term financial implications, let's take a step back and acknowledge that this is the most mortifying draft class in recent NBA history.
They pore over conflicting stories about what happened at which party, who said what mortifying things to whom, which astonishing rumors are grounded in fact.
Most urgently, the thought of inadvertently publishing a gun reference in the midst of national mourning over a fresh tragedy is pretty mortifying to me.
After an embarrassing failure to pass an alternative healthcare plan, and an even more mortifying failure to repeal ObamaCare, Senate Republicans have reached a standstill.
So in 2017 we reach a mortifying moment for a great democracy: We must decide whether our 45th president is a liar or a crackpot.
The mortifying thing, rather, is that if you were able to write the same poems as me, I'd have to think that my poems were untrue.
The plot relies heavily on Hilda and Zelda being so steeped in the witch world that they don't immediately grasp why Sabrina might find them mortifying.
I spoke with him over email to get his reaction to the meme, and his advice on how to withstand the mortifying ordeal of being known.
As the author, do you have any insight into the mortifying ordeal of being known that might help those of us who want to be loved?
Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted Tim recording the mortifying moment on his cellphone — in case, presumably, he ever needed to blackmail me.
When Corrine tries to cheer him up, Russell tells her not to bother: "That was possibly the most mortifying moment of my adult life," he added.
The year 2016 seems intent on going down in history as an extended roller-coaster of absurd events, from mortifying political antics to troubling clown sightings.
Imagine: Taking the ovum from a chicken and mutating it so strenuously, with such unforgiving force, that it suddenly resembles a yolk-filled PVC pipe. Mortifying.
In reporting its second-quarter results on Monday, the $42 billion digital-streaming service threw around the mortifying "un-grandfather" to mean raising prices on longtime customers.
From insensitive YouTube videos and mortifying viral challenges, to disturbing makeup trends and abhorrent tweets, the online world has truly tested our patience these past six months.
Just existing is obviously an ordeal, and yet, technology companies continue to find new and exciting ways to smush the human experience into a mortifying gray smear.
Mirai is a mortifying spectre of our near future—anybody can use the virus to hijack thousands of poorly secured internet-connected security cameras and other appliances.
" Opening up about the arrest, during which the actor went on a racist and expletive-laced tirade at police officers, LaBeouf previously described the incident as "mortifying.
She also warned Cardi would "die" if she continued to attack people in such brazen fashion -- while going on to call the run-in mortifying and embarrassing.
So does Ms. Shapiro's direction, which is confident and highly polished; even the boys' mortifying, half-remembered rec-room dance routines are snappily choreographed, by Faye Driscoll.
As we end the decade, let's take a mortifying look at the New Year's Eve photo archives to revisit the best and worst glasses of the 2010s.
The idea of touching myself during sex the way I had when I was alone was mortifying, and I felt sure it would make men feel inadequate.
" But the saga continued: "And, of course, I had to go to camp (Malibu Makos, in case you were wondering) with all the cute surfer boys. Completely. Mortifying.
Molly Robbins, of Lancashire, England, is going viral after she shared her mom's hilarious (but understandably mortifying) mishap to Twitter, complete with photographic evidence to back it up.
From mortifying accessories to shirts so good you'll want to order them in bulk, here's a look at all the merch on the 2020 campaign trail so far.
Zimmerman put the gun up for sale with a starting bid of $5k, and the auction was supposed to run all day Thursday -- a mortifying thought for Trayvon's family.
Eventually the burden falls on the person who wants more to initiate the mortifying "what are we?" conversation, the beginning of which often inspires the fight-or-flight response.
Amid a light-hearted set that includes a story about a mortifying medical emergency and anecdotes about her upbringing, she shares her experience as a survivor of sexual assault.
It was mortifying enough when the Republican debate last week introduced the question of whether it was appropriate for one presidential candidate to accuse another of wetting his pants.
Since last fall, I've been failing in spectacular, repeated, mortifying fashion in the pursuit of one particular item: Balenciaga Triple S sneakers, in the beige, green and yellow colorway.
Faced with a mortifying special election loss in what had been a Trump-loving Pennsylvania House district, Republicans on Capitol Hill did not point fingers in the president's direction.
Have you ever thought there was maybe something a little pervy about Mr. Brocklehurst's obsession with "mortifying the flesh" of all the impoverished little girls entrusted to his care?
Watching two people you love argue over your sexuality or gender identity is a mortifying, all too common occurrence for queer kids, and someone cared enough to include it here.
While attempting to troll other brands â€" you know, like bad ones â€" Steak-umm and Pop-Tarts pulled off one of the most mortifying Twitter exchanges in history. Congrats!
It's not explicit, but there are a few moments when a strain of Catholic thought about mortifying the body in the pursuit of sanctification seems to rise to the surface.
In the lawsuit, McCarthy says he was raised in a strong-knit Catholic family ... so being connected to Duggar's porn life -- on Twitter, OkCupid and Ashley Madison -- has been mortifying.
But first, the Yule Ball serves up a John Hughes-worthy interlude of teen angst over who's going with whom and how mortifying dancing with the opposite sex will be.
The revelation of any individual facet of this information could provide a potentially mortifying insight into someone's private life — in the aggregate, it can essentially reconstruct it in its totality.
Thanks to two fart-related emoji (ðŸ'© and ðŸ'¨ ) that will appear on your Touch Bar, you can prank friends with mortifying sounds at the push of a button.
As if this isn't mortifying enough, the girl that Oliver was hoping to officially corsage and partner with for the night is already being be-flowered and canoodled by another boy.
"The other night I was part of something so mortifying and so humiliating to go through in front of a bunch upper echelon people who have their life together," she said.
"The other night I was part of something so mortifying and so humiliating to go through in front of a bunch upper echelon people who have their life together," Nicki began.
She captures the agony of how mortifying it is to open your heart to someone, especially when it has been closed for so long that you wonder if it's even there.
"The other night I was part of something so mortifying and so humiliating to go through in front of a bunch upper echelon people who have their life together," she remarked.
Such treatment may not be mortifying to the dog, perhaps (in fact, that's a legitimate question, whether dogs can feel mortified; I remain agnostic); but it is degrading to the species.
I thought that I had reached an age at which I could opt out of embarrassing myself in public, but last year, of my own free will, I did something mortifying.
Sure, we may not have looked our absolute best in the clear mascara and icy-white shadow we rocked way back when, but it actually wasn't as mortifying as we had expected.
How mortifying would it be to have my loved ones know that the last thing I did was engage in a naughty conversation, or send nudes to somebody I met on Tinder.
To his swaggering, aristocratic father, this is a mortifying blow, and he is more than happy to let Henri loose in Paris, while his protective mother insists on moving there with him.
But Mr. Trump was often met with scoffing disdain by wealthy elites and mainstream civic leaders, culminating in a mortifying roast by President Obama at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2011.
For any Democrat of any stripe, the threat of a Trump reelection—and a second term free of any need to retain even his current 34 percent approval rating—is genuinely mortifying.
Next time your sister brings up that mortifying memory from high school, focus on the beach photo on your phone's home screen or pull out your new, astrologically determined lipstick and reapply.
Michael Bloomberg's bizarre Nega-Trump presidential tilt has produced plenty of mortifying moments so far, from the Meatball Tweet and cringeworthy influencer meta-sponcon to that time he shook a dog's snoot.
I thought of these skins over the figure as being porous armor, or yes, camouflage — but a flimsy, mortifying kind of camouflage, one that didn't really protect the interior from its encroaching milieu.
"Oh my gosh, that was so mortifying because she had spoken to me when I did Precious," the "Touch My Body" singer began, referring to her award-winning role in the 2009 film.
The self-mortifying gesture is no elbow-to-chest tap, but the full-shoulder swing of an arm pulled so far back that it is almost cut off by the panel's left edge.
As Mary ineffectually attempts to convey "Legends of the Fall" by making flailing waterfall-like motions in the general vicinity of her midsection, the two youngest girls provide a stream of mortifying guesses.
The most tangible result of the great Trump-Kim rapprochement, it turned out, was the reported execution of Kim's negotiators following their mortifying failure to get a pound of flesh from the Americans.
In the opening of the first episode (spoiler alert), Offred and her disobedient sister slaves endure their mortifying punishment in unison, until Offred pulls her pregnancy card and fully realizes its unholy power.
" Last summer, Benedict Cumberbatch hit out at people using their phones while he was performing as Hamlet at the Barbican, saying he could see the red lights and that he found it "mortifying.
We have every reason to suspect that whatever is written for Trump's teleprompter for the State of the Uniom will be free of nationally mortifying gaffes that could have easily been solved via spellcheck.
In the April issue of Esquire, the actor gave his first-sit down interview since his "mortifying" arrest in 2017 — during which he went on a racist and expletive-laced tirade at police officers.
He was a lovable, fun, smart, gifted kid and it is confusing and heartbreaking and mortifying for people that knew him at that age to think he'd be capable of something like this later.
Recent days have seen fresh leaks of mortifying emails from Mrs Clinton's inner circle, stolen by hackers on the orders of the Russian government, according to American spy chiefs, and released the WikiLeaks website.
I never plotted to cheat on you or got close to it (the closest I came was groping someone when paralytically drunk, which was mortifying, but I don't honestly count that as "thinking"). 19.
In this podcast, Mr. McCraw (who describes the experience of becoming an overnight media sensation as "mystifying and a little mortifying") talks about libel law, The New York Times and Mr. Trump's threatened lawsuit.
Though I come on my mother's side from a long line of Shiites, who encourage public grieving through institutionalized mourning called matam, there's little I find more mortifying than crying in front of strangers.
In the TV series, we observe the mortifying life of a self-destructive 30-something incapable of adult self-reliance -- the title is a nickname which hints at the depths of her self-loathing.
This required people to address their Google Assistants by saying "Spring in to Target," and the experiment hasn't been repeated, possibly because it would be mortifying to say "Spring in to Target" to a robot.
The Georgia Arrest In the April issue of Esquire, LaBeouf gave his first-sit down interview since his "mortifying" 29 arrest — during which he went on a racist and expletive-laced tirade at police officers.
In the April issue of Esquire, the 31-year-old actor gave his first-sit down interview since the "mortifying" arrest — during which he went on a racist and expletive-laced tirade at police officers.
While the hack would be absolutely mortifying for Kenny, until new information is revealed in the final scene, I'd have guessed that people would mostly see him as the victim of a highly invasive crime.
And I know it is Natalie's actual job to guide me without judgement, but telling someone all your grimy, sometimes mortifying secrets and then not being judged—that builds a type of intimacy that's unparalleled.
By any normal metric, this week's news — the impeachment hearing, the Stone trial, the mortifying Erdogan meeting, not to mention new revelations of the senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller's white nationalism — was sensational and historic.
At every turn on Thursday night, he avoided turning a colorful and remarkable biography — populated by a volcanic father, a self-destructive brother, his own dizzying career highs and mortifying lows — into vivid, poignant storytelling.
Benjamin likens her insomnia to a sad, coked-up old swinger who doesn't want the party to end and insists on keeping her out on the dance floor, swaying along unhappily to his mortifying gyrations.
As more and more friends pile into the crowded house over the weekend, what began as a delicate look at the awkward feeling of being an outsider gradually becomes a mortifying descent into brotastic boorishness.
Before Jodi can finish bewailing her ex-husband's child bride, with all the mortifying math that entails, Elliot trumps her with Trey, the 20-year-old Okie hunk he has taken to calling his partner.
"What is most alarming (and mortifying to the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated) is not that Trump has entered his eighth decade unscathed by even elementary knowledge about the nation's history," he continued.
PARIS — Past the plush Napoleon III sofas, through a forest of orchids and under the keen eye of doormen in pillbox hats, a guest crept out of the Ritz Paris hotel on a mortifying mission.
"As someone whose life is just a series of mortifying incidents strung together, it's going to be brilliant to take a break from my own mishaps, and feast in the disasters of others," she said.
There is also going to be a 250-foot-tall promo for the show on the Aria's video billboard with me and Dieter on it, so that will be at turns both wonderful and mortifying. Anyway!
What happens next is at turns mortifying, horrifying, and deeply sad, but it stands in for what this show does so well: hilariously depict characters who find ways of making their pain lash out at others.
In the April issue of Esquire, the 31-year-old actor gave his first-sit down interview since his "mortifying" 2017 arrest — during which he went on a racist and expletive-laced tirade at police officers.
Our boss skipped work with us to go to Shake Shack for lunch; mortifying sex moments were fodder for weekly editorial meetings; higher-ups were frequently invited to weekend parties younger coworkers threw on Brooklyn rooftops.
She walked past swarms of paparazzi confident in her outfit, until looking down to make a mortifying discovery: a pair of blue lacy panties hanging halfway out of the knee, a laundry snafu we can all understand.
Formal ambition doesn't always guarantee results, as in "Thunder Road," a one-take stunt in which a cop's mortifying eulogy for his mother reaches its climax with his rendition of the Bruce Springsteen song of the title.
The three dancers are touring players, arriving with a cart to enact scenes from the Bible; those scenes are filtered through Spanish colonial traditions of the American Southwest, in which believers expiate sins by mortifying the flesh.
"The other night I was a part of something so mortifying and so humiliating to go through in front of a bunch upper echelon people who have their life together," Minaj explained on her Beats 1 show Queen.
After a decade of being heralded as a vanguard of African growth, Zambia, in a quick, mortifying letdown, is now struggling to pay its own civil servants and has reached out to the International Monetary Fund for help.
During the short flight there, however, Poehler thought she lost her phone in the toilet, a mortifying problem in and of itself, made worse by the fact that all her detailed plans for the weekend were on the device.
Led by a charming pairing of Imelda Staunton and Celia Imrie as the long-estranged sisters Sandra and Bif, this creaky romantic comedy (with a side order of death and dementia) is by turns warm, silly and thoroughly mortifying.
The recent scrutiny of Mr. Biden's physical behavior began on Friday when Ms. Flores, a Democrat, published an essay in New York Magazine's The Cut, which described an encounter with Mr. Biden in 2014 that she described as mortifying.
" In his memoir, Mr. Reed wrote that he could see the mortifying object on a bookshelf as he worked at his desk in Arkansas, and he confessed, "It was a while before I could see the humor in it.
His plan to reform Italy's constitution was not rejected on December 4th by a margin of five or even ten percentage points, as the polls had suggested: the gap between No and Yes was a mortifying 20 points in Italy proper.
Nor does it appear there were any Russians involved in the mortifying coda in which some of Clinton's State Department email traffic turned up on the computer of Anthony Weiner, the since-estranged husband of Clinton's close aide, Huma Abedin.
"The other night I was part of something so mortifying and so humiliating to go through in front of a bunch upper echelon… people who have their life together," Nicki explained, denying claims that she spoke poorly of Cardi's new daughter.
"Staffers told the Post that she had never heard Carson speak in such stark terms about transgender people before, with one describing his remarks as "demoralizing and mortifying for many of us who work here and are about serving everybody.
Penelope Spheeris's toe-curling The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years documents a conveyor belt of mortifying, starry-eyed hopefuls, but is worth watching solely for a scene involving W.A.S.P.'s Chris Holmes and a swimming pool.
Instead, the campaign proved a dizzying cycle of boom and bust: a surprising third-place finish in Iowa undone with a mortifying embarrassment in a debate just before the New Hampshire primary, a meltdown that gave an opening to Gov.
The arrest was captured on video and set off a mortifying cluster of events that included demonstrations in front of that same Starbucks, calls for a nationwide boycott of the chain and profuse apologies from the company's chief executive Kevin Johnson.
In a new interview with Marie Claire, Teigen recounts the mortifying experience of finding out that her hubby was privy to a secret she firmly believed was hers, and hers alone alone — safely tucked away in a small, dark crevice.
In "Being Wrong," Kathryn Schulz's compassionate, erudite book about the causes and effects of human error, the author applies scientific research and the work of thinkers like William James, Plato and Freud to unpack historical mistakes and mortifying contemporary flubs.
You can start with a simple tagline ("why don't you have a piece of bread," let's say) and the twist ("why don't you submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known") will turn it into something sadder and harder to resolve.
The giving, caring man Helen thought she knew vanishes in a nauseating haze of I'm-terribly-sorrys and it's-simply-not-possibles, and the experience of watching the man she loves unfeelingly preside over her new friend's humiliation is mortifying.
In the last six weeks or so, I've gone to 10 events involving all levels of participation, from not much to nonstop; varying in price from $18 to $200 a ticket; and ranging in personal discomfort level from mildly embarrassing to horrifically mortifying.
It was denounced by the Catholic Church and banned after the Liberation; Clouzot had shown, with mortifying clarity, how ordinary people could behave when given the chance to finger their fellow-citizens—and, in the process, to assuage their own lurking shame.
The mortifying parenting moments are more than balanced out by the fulfilling ones for the home-renovation expert, though — in fact, he doesn't have just one proudest fatherhood moment, "because my kids make me proud each and every day," he tells PEOPLE.
How it got from there to meme stardom is something of a mystery, but it probably had something to do with The Hairpin, which reblogged the essay shortly after it came out, block-quoting the "mortifying" line and borrowing it for the title.
Even though missiles from the North would almost certainly carry dummy warheads, analysts said, a failure to intercept them would deal Mr. Trump a mortifying setback and could even weaken the rationale for installing an American missile defense system in South Korea.
If you have ever laid awake at night worried about a mortifying question you asked in a meeting or an awkward comment you made to a co-worker, billionaire Spanx entrepreneur Sara Blakely has some advice: that embarrassment can work to your advantage.
"The other night I was part of something so mortifying and so humiliating to go through in front of a bunch upper echelon… people who have their life together," she said during an episode of her Queen radio show on Apple Music's Beats 1.
"The other night I was part of something so mortifying and so humiliating to go through in front of a bunch upper echelon… people who have their life together," she said during an episode of her Queen radio show on Apple Music's Beats 1.
As long as you don't ever, ever, ever couch it in terms of "adulting," being an actual adult is far preferable to existing in that mortifying post-teenage hinterland where you've never had less of an idea of who you are and what you want.
"As more and more friends pile into the crowded house over the weekend, what began as a delicate look at the awkward feeling of being an outsider gradually becomes a mortifying descent into brotastic boorishness," Bilge Ebiri wrote in his review for The Times.
There is no way I would ever make it more than two and a half steps down such a staircase, but I understand its terrible logic: if we want the rewards of being loved, we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.
Following our reunion with Thurman Merman (Brett Kelly) — Willie has promised to get the kid deflowered for his 21st birthday, which leads to a mortifying interlude with a prostitute (Octavia Spencer) — Willie accompanies his former partner (Tony Cox) to a prospective robbery in Chicago.
The grind-house nostalgist in me was delighted to find two 1981 obscurities: the Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci's mortifying gorefest "The Beyond" and "The Nesting," an interesting novelty in which the New York sexploitation filmmaker Armand Weston tried to go mainstream, with mixed results.
I'm making my way through the fifth volume in Knausgaard's six-part autobiographical novel in preparation for writing a review for the New Republic, and this morning I came across a passage that is quintessentially Knausgaardian in that it manages to be both mortifying and ridiculously hip.
"Overnight, I became a TV presenter on one of the biggest TV shows in the United Kingdom, which I was wholly unprepared for and didn't really become good at for like another year, which was mortifying to have to learn that publicly on television," says Jamil.
During her Thursday appearance on The Rachael Ray Show, the actress, Goop founder and author of cookbook The Clean Plate: Eat, Reset, Heal revealed she is no exception to being a "mortifying" presence for Apple Blythe Alison, 14, and her little brother Moses Bruce Anthony, 12.
In some strains of Catholicism, mortifying the flesh through discomfort and self-inflicted pain is a way to purify the soul, and while I don't want to draw too many conclusions here, the film seems to be drawing on that imagery to construct Vinny's character arc.
One of his favorite tactics was positing a variety of fake realities (international conspiracies, the fictional crimes of his enemies, the imagined hellscapes of inner cities) meant to turn his base's focus away from some new mortifying revelation and back to the demagogic message of his candidacy.
" But on March 8th, shortly before Angie arrived, Helgen sent an email to Sangrey, Cones, Davis, and others, stressing again that the 2011 episode involved "poor judgement and a mortifying misunderstanding" on Pinto's part and that he did "not expect that Miguel will again behave unprofessionally.
In a mortifying mistake destined to be cited by gleeful math teachers everywhere, an Oklahoma judge acknowledged that he was three decimal places off — mistaking thousands for millions — when he originally calculated the amount Johnson & Johnson should pay for its role in the state's opioids crisis.
The 2020 presidential race won't be the first in which candidates twist themselves into questionable and sometimes mortifying knots to demonstrate how real, relatable, unpretentious or hip they can ostensibly be, but, Holy Mother of Oversharing, it promises to chart whole new frontiers in that regard.
Clashes between the introverted, artistically ambitious Eddie and the show-off, crowd-pleasing Diamond Dave (as he was known) were commonplace from the beginning, and reached a very public and mortifying climax when the (temporarily reunited) band appeared onstage at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards.
While the rise of self-erasing content is perhaps partially in response to privacy concerns (anybody who has accidentally stumbled upon a Facebook status they wrote 10 years ago has certainly experienced the mortifying repercussions of content permanence), it's also simply a reflection of real-world human behaviour.
I could go on — there's a mortifying scene in which Brian brings home a man for a hookup — but I have to remind myself that Wohl is in fact one of our cleverest playwrights, exploring the outer limits of naturalism in search of new ways of expressing new feelings.
It was a particularly mortifying moment for a leader under fire at home in Israel for allegations of corruption and for cozying up to the increasingly authoritarian, and nativist, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has himself been accused of ignoring a growing anti-Semitism problem in Hungary.
One of the things we tried to do with the book without getting into like, rites of passage ceremonies — and I know girls whose mothers would have first moon parties which were mostly mortifying — I was mortified just getting a pack of pads and The Care and Keeping of You.
Even if it proves fleeting, the mortifying resemblance to 2000, provides a backdrop for Clinton's increasingly warm and concerted courtship of young voters and of an increasing sense of alarm among Trump foes that millennials, through apathy or self-satisfied third-party voting, could tip the presidency into his hands.
Marbled throughout are sharp summaries of history's trendy strategies for meeting people, from working at those department store counters to the advent of singles bars to the video-dating services of the 1980s (hysterical and mortifying examples of that genre are preserved on YouTube) to our current app-driven mating practices.
The high isn't all that, and it's the biggest risk factor for death among people aged 15 to 49 in the UK. Plus, it comes with tons of terrible side effects, like memory loss or, conversely, that mortifying moment you remember what you said to your colleague the previous night.
" We get his admission, following a mortifying teenage nip slip in the wave pool at Splashdown Harbor, that "an involuntary and maybe autistic part of me immediately gauges the breast's firmness and heft, cross-references the diameter and hue of the areola and indexes the ambitious nubbin of its nipple.
Minaj spoke out about the altercation just days after it happened: "The other night I was part of something so mortifying and so humiliating to go through in front of a bunch upper echelon… people who have their life together," she said during an episode of her Queen radio show on Apple Music's Beats 1.
But for anyone with a moist, albeit mortifying, affection for the oeuvre of that great auteur Irwin Allen (guilty), and the K-Tel era of pop music (guilty), "Disaster!" will provide a rush of giddy nostalgia that's just as pleasurable, at times, as the more substantial rewards of the musical theater's higher-reaching shows.
Wolff writes of Spicer's mortifying debut: He sent his new press secretary, Sean Spicer—whose personal mantra would shortly become "You can't make this shit up"—to argue his case in a media moment that turned Spicer, quite a buttoned-down political professional, into a national joke, which he seemed destined to never recover from.
It was around that moment that Silicon Valley inventions — blogging platforms, social media, YouTube — began sweeping away old orders and gatekeepers in a way that was both exhilarating (because we were more in charge of our destiny than ever before) and mortifying (because we were, well, more in charge of our destiny than ever before).
Love has had his ebbs and flows as a Cavalier—and these Finals were, his spunky Game 7 notwithstanding, a hell of a mortifying ebb—but he has never looked nearly as comfortable as Bosh did during the 2012-13 season, after his successful self-actualization as a tireless defender and rebounder with a smooth jumper.
Nicki Minaj is finally speaking out about her already-infamous fight with Cardi B. "The other night I was part of something so mortifying and so humiliating to go through in front of a bunch upper echelon… people who have their life together," Minaj, 35, remarked during Monday's episode of her Queen radio show on Apple Music's Beats 1.
Ignorant presidential mansplaining would be bad enough, but the most mortifying nugget in Bloomberg's piece is how the president reportedly refused to make a trip across the pond because journalists in the United Kingdom were mean to him: In one phone conversation during 2017, Trump complained to May over the criticism he'd been getting in British newspapers.
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Then there is the casserole of other damage control elements: firing bad actors; reshuffling management; reorganizing the supply chain, settling some lawsuits while fighting others; offering consumer rebates; executive apologies; mortifying congressional hearings and paying government fines; expensive marketing campaigns; charm offensives with shareholders, employees and vendors; and, of course, blue-ribbon panel investigations where something — and someone — is blamed for the fiasco.
Even in the midst of its worst crisis in 15 years, China still handed Trump a mortifying lossChina just completed work on the emergency hospital it set up to tackle the Wuhan coronavirus, and it took just 8 days to do itA man in the Philippines has become the first person to die of the Wuhan coronavirus outside of China
In the face of a seemingly endless string of legal scrapes and existential crises—impeachment, a special counsel investigation, a potentially mortifying presidential election looming over it all—he has responded with his signature mix of rage and panic, spraying Twitter with cries of "fake news" and blaming his woes on enemies, real or imagined, in the Democratic Party, in the deep state, even in Fox News.
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As a show that appears to be targeted toward the YA set, it's disturbing to see Patty and Bob bond over their shared eating disorder and encourage each other to essentially use their food cravings as motivation — to win, to seek retaliation, to earn someone's trust, or some combination of all three (as seen in that mortifying scene where Patty pressures him to win the crawfish eating competition in order to prove he's "willing to risk it all" to help her win the pageant).
Good taste and the right amount of money was enough to obtain a wall-size trophy, or what Thomas Nozkowski called the "800 pound gorilla in the room" Not only was Stella's statement a misreading of Jasper Johns' "flags" and "targets," but it was a blanket denial of something as messy as meaning, as anarchic as humor, as mortifying as humans interacting with their bodies (scratching their dugs, for example), and as disquieting as ripe sexuality, all of which you are apt to find some aspect of in a Nilsson work.

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