This humiliating posture is called dódok, and may be rendered into English by the term squatting.
Who invented this elegant and disgustinglyhumiliating entertainment?
Princes of the highest rank, and statesmen of the most exalted station were subjected alike to these humiliating ceremonials.
But it would be much more maddeningly humiliating to stay in Woodhouse and experience the full flavour of Woodhouse's calculated benevolence.
The most vulgar, sordid and humiliating of all forms of slavery: so mechanical.
Only he had a sort of jealous idea that it was humiliating to be poor, and so, for vanity's sake, he would have possessions.
And indeed, if, after all, the view of the early progress of Christianity be melancholy and humiliating we must beware lest we charge the whole of this on the infidelity of the historian.
It was impossible that such a reconciliation should last, or that even the mean soul of Elagabalus could hold an empire on such humiliating terms of dependence.
It was necessary to accept this humiliating condition; and the unhappy Valens, after a reign of a few days, was deprived of the purple and of his life.
His first thought was the humiliating question--"Can this be the woman I fancied I loved so dearly?
It was humiliating to feel that the bare mention of her name could thus affect him, yet was there a keen, strange pleasure in the sensation nevertheless.
Of course that was an expression of worn-out nerves; but it was humiliating in the extreme.
But this is not known to the young stranger within the theatrical gates, and through her ignorance, which is far from bliss, she may be subjected to a humiliating and even dangerous experience.
Humiliating thought, that we are bound together as States by the chains of slavery!
No advantage was gained by them in the terms of peace, and the glory of humiliating Austria remained to Bonaparte.
I have often experienced what you call the humiliating feeling of getting more and more involved in doubt the more one thinks of the facts and reasoning on doubtful points.
It is really disgusting and humiliating to see directly opposite conclusions drawn from the same facts.
This humiliating concession the Huguenots reluctantly agreed to make.
Had they forced the President into this humiliating act?
He agreed to consider their humiliating proposition and give them an answer in two weeks.
Nothing could have been more humiliating than the reception given to defeated soldiers who survived their comrades and returned home.
Just as they have been ashamed of some mediæval monuments which reminded them of humiliating epochs in their history, so they have tried to get rid of words and forms which bore the stamp of foreign ascendency.
Let me entreat you to throw off its humiliating bonds and to cease to order your affairs by that insensate monitor of brass and steel.
Yet however by these she was gratified, she resolved never to comply with so humiliating a measure, but to wait the consent of his friends, or renounce him for ever.
In the great agony on Mount Oeta, Hercules points the pity of his son Hyllus to the extremity of torment besieging him on the humiliating evidence of the tears which they extorted from him.
But there is a spectacle more humiliating and more deplorable: There is a superstition, an idolatry below that of the Siamese.
A month had hardly elapsed since the ecclesiastical retreat, when all the cities of Illinois, were filled by the most strange and humiliating clamors against our bishop.
And it is after this humiliating and shameful course of life that he finds out “that the Church of Rome is right!
I found such benefits from those two sermons that I continued the practice during the four years I remained in Beauport, though I had to suffer and hear in silence, many humiliating and cutting remarks from many co-priests.
However, as I came into his presence, prepared to hear all kinds of bad reports, angry reproaches, and humiliating insinuations, I remained perfectly calm.
These men were honest and earnest in their efforts to raise their countrymen from the humiliating and inferior position which they occupied compared with the conquering race.
Her tears and her sobs, mingled with the frank declaration of the most humiliating actions, had made such a profound impression upon me that I was, for some time, unable to speak.
The superstitions, the ridiculous and humiliating practices, the secret and mental agonies of the monks, the nuns and the priests, will be shown to you as they were never shown before.
I knew the humiliating and disgraceful history of Joseph and the coadjutor bishop of Quebec.
Many months were passed by him in painful and humiliatingsolicitation for the restitution of his high offices.
After long negotiations Columbus was forced to sign a humiliatingcapitulation with the rebels.
He ravaged up to the very gates of Constantinople, and only a humiliating treaty preserved his dominion to the "invincible Augustus" of the East.
Benjamin of Tudela in the compilation of his travels in the twelfth century gives a humiliating account of the few brethren who still clung, in dire poverty and meanness, to their native land.
For the first time since that strange moment of irreparable weakness she perceived what a humiliating hold this empty-headed officer had over her, inferior as he was to herself in every way.
In politics he is not sure whether it is not beneath his dignity to rank himself with others, yet, if he retires from politics, he wonders if it is not humiliating to stand aloof.
Accordingly they procure quite a peculiar pleasure for us, by being our models without having anything humiliating for us.
He was forced to make a humiliating peace with France, and to surrender Boulogne.
The French did not see why they should sign a humiliating treaty merely in order to deliver a harsh and not very popular king from confinement.
That the party which professed to represent the people and to forward the immortal principles of the Revolution, should ground its power on official bribery and corruption, was humiliating to the better men in the Whig camp.
He allowed himself to be shut up in his entrenched camp, saw his supplies cut off, and was finally compelled to make a retreat in the depth of winter, after signing a humiliating treaty with the Afghan chiefs, and giving them hostages.
The mortification of anything like a humiliating connexion was so much the greater.
The Earl and Countess of Smatterton could not give their consent to such a humiliating and degrading connexion.
It was also to him a humiliating and depressing feeling to become the husband of a wealthy woman, and not bring her as a glorious gift or a wedding-present the fame and laurels of a husband.
Soon afterward, the birth of the boy seemed to wipe out these humiliating memories; yet Marvell found in time that they were not effaced, but only momentarily crowded out of sight.
For the first time in his life the coarse fingering of public curiosity had touched the secret places of his soul, and nothing that had gone before seemed as humiliating as this trivial comment on his tragedy.
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