self-denigration

Tell me, Inspector, did you risk your life in '67 so that the few could reach a new level of self-denigration?

Men too are supposed to be getting in on this strangely addictive type of self-denigration.

During this brief time, push your mind to attack its own protective strategy of self-denigration.

The self-denigration is not forced, but it's amused rather than abject.

An odd mixture of ego and self-denigration pervaded his work.

That must be part of it, except that self-denigration seems to have been there before the empire was lost.

It's a subtle form of self-denigration you're indulging in here, Kate.

Instead there is apprehension, fear self-denigration and broken trust of others and God.

What did they make of the self-denigration?

National self-denigration is one of the most startling discoveries incomers make about the UK.

Esther's self-denigration veils ambitious rage and her frustration with the purity demanded of women.

Even The Listener job, which he left acknowledged as the best literary editor of his day, produced a characteristic essay in self-denigration.

Furedi is right to point out that the climate of panic-driven parental self-denigration is way over the top.

Self-deprecation has been replaced with self-denigration.

Actively striving for extra-ordinary experiences is dangerous because it involves subtle self-denigration and works righteousness.

Shocked out of her self-denigration, her ripple of laugh bubbled up, slightly hysterical with disbelief You?

She flung herself at him, all she had to give As she gave her self-denigration, closing her eyes, clutching Him.

Ask a roomful of intelligent, successful people in this culture how satisfied they are with their bodies, and most answers range from irony to the bitterest self-denigration.

And Dixon, witty and blustery but with a core of self-denigration and class resentment, is the lonely man hiding behind his gregariousness.

One may call it masochism, or self-denigration, or self-hatred, but it's a good thing all the same that she dares, at last, to look herself in the face.

Deaf youth are trained into passivity and self-denigration by the fact that non-Deaf people (family, school, medical, etc.) control their fate and make life decisions about them.

Mr. Oren weaves these accounts into an engrossing narrative free from Zionist self-idealization or post-Zionist self-denigration.

Self-denigration was addressed by civil rights and black politico-cultural movements in the USA. The phrase 'Black is beautiful' was born.

"Parents worry that the negative values of self-denigration that some children fall into here will hamper the quest for social mobility that is part of the immigrant experience."

It may seem strange to suspect such a man of inflation - the psychoanalyst's term for a tendency to grandeur, the obverse of a patient's self-denigration and depression.