A sudden inspiration came to the king with the memory of all that had transpired during that humiliating encounter with the American.

She turned and ran as fast as she could, dreading a humiliating encounter, hoping against hope the grooms would appear to restore order.

"That may be the single most humiliating encounter of my life," she said.

The columns were wry, self-deprecating and not exactly discreet: Ms. Sohn left little to the imagination in describing her often heedless, occasionally humiliating encounters with various Mr. Wrongs.

What if he had seen that final, humiliating encounter?

He said nothing to Cliff about the humiliating encounter he had just experienced.

She felt fortunate to have thus far escaped any unpleasant and humiliating encounters.

He could still see 221 her sweat-dampened face in the Academy gym, scowling down at him after a particularly humiliating hand-tohand encounter.

To become a jazz musician often involves brutal, humiliating encounters with better versed, more experienced improvisers.

She has another humiliating encounter with Vittorio Vidal (Ricardo Montalban), a movie star.