Word: demeaningly
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...Ionesco does have something to tell us in his play. The power of his message derives from a universality which O'Horgan's Americanization can only demean. The play is about conformity. At the end of the story only Stanley (Gene Wilder) remains a human being. Everyone else in the town has been inflicted with rhinoceritis, a mysterious disease which changes them into snorting, thick-skinned rhinos. Originally the beasts are an anomaly in the town. But they become more and more appealing to the people. The human beings yearn to become rhinoceroses. The comfort of conformity becomes more attractive...
...Bobby Riggs is a menace to tennis. His antics demean the game, as does his attitude toward women participants. I would like to see this clown prince beaten into the ground by a female opponent...
...features cranked out for television. They portray all black men as diddy-boppers or street-corner hustlers, all white men as drooling, craven criminals, and women of any complexion as whimpering sex machines. They lack the energy and dignity of good action melodrama. Super Fly and movies like it demean the audiences they are made...
Permitting patients to make such choices helps prevent despair, Weisman believes. Hope requires only a degree of autonomy, a "conviction that we can change the world a little bit." One way of supporting a sick person's autonomy is to let him refuse "heroic" treatments that demean him by causing him to suffer "without adding significant survival." Another way is to let a patient plan his own funeral if he wants to. He should also be allowed to talk about his grief at dying and the probable reactions of his survivors without being told that he is morbid. Lastly...
...decide, my daddy used to tell me, is whether we'll stay alive or whether we won't") to endure, and even, in some cases, to prevail against a fate of degradation and neglect. His work pries loose stereotypes by which we, in the position to affect relief, conveniently demean the poor and thereby free ourselves from guilt for their wretchedness...