Degradation (n.) is a rope fraying in the middle while both ends still look fine.
Degradation (n.) happens to a river slowly enough that each generation thinks the dirty one is normal.
Degradation (n.) takes far less than anyone expects and far longer than that to undo.
Degradation (n.) works by getting the person to agree, in small steps, that the treatment fits them.
Embarrassment (n.) is the fitting response to being alive amid nature's silent grandeur.
Embarrassment (n.) is the root of faith and the key to creativity; a person incapable of it stays sterile.
Embarrassment (n.) is where the cure of the soul begins: shame at our own pettiness, envy and conceit.
Embarrassment (n.) follows a great event that brings the soul of a man or a nation to light — then comes the need for some childishness or coarseness, as much from embarrassment as for recovery.
Humiliation (n.) reads to mimetic desire as a sign: the disdain it suffers marks the model's blessed self-sufficiency, closed to its own lack.
Humiliation (n.) is a fact of life — God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
Humiliation (n.) is contant in life — Life is a long lesson in humility.
Humiliation (n.) is not a bad thing in the long run — where there is no shame, there is no honor
Losing face (n.) is the bill for caring what they think.
Losing face (n.) is like a chipped plate, still usable and never used again
Losing face (n.) hurts most in front of the people who will never mention it again
Losing face (n.) is social death with the body still at the table.
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