To be sure, artistic practice itself was not seen to be demeaning or unbecoming of a virtuoso.
Low wages and full savings accounts aside, many ex-soldiers chose not to perform agricultural labor because they thought it demeaning.
Some people find this idea somehow demeaning to human dignity.
This served to reinforce the middle-class cultural ascendancy while demeaning the values of another culture.
For example, wrongs of these sorts raise problems of definition, since not ever y intentionally demeaning act is a wrongful insult.
Suffering and sickness, once known, can reduce and demean a person and offer a depressing picture of one's own future.
Race-conscious districting rests on an assumption about individuals that current moral understandings condemn as racially demeaning.
Here the topic of the body is identified with a reactionary and oppressive discourse, one that individualises and demeans disabled people.
