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Tag Name "Galling" (13)

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To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically it can frame any number of hypotheses, but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove.
David George Hogarth
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Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.
John Millington Synge
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We've been sending billions and billions of dollars to Israel and Egypt for decades to keep the peace. So as an American taxpayer, I have an interest in this. It's galling to feel that as an American I have a higher stake, a higher interest in peace than you do.
Lawrence Wright
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
Robert Burns
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.
Anthony Trollope
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Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.
C. S. Lewis
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[Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.
James Madison
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Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.
John Owen
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Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to prove, pay, and prove all over again that you're a worthy parent. Any true parent will tell you that that is impossible to prove in advance.
Scott Simon
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Delivered from the galling yoke of time.
William Wordsworth