Sentence examples for unworthiness from high-quality English sources.

• His sense of his own unworthiness tormented him.

• I fell on my face in unworthiness and said I truly did not know.

• If thy unworthiness raised love in me,   More worthy I to be beloved of thee.

• With smoke rising from the burning incense, Isaiah was consumed by his feelings of unworthiness (“Woe is me!

• (Masochism has always been a quack remedy for a sense of unworthiness.)

• What makes us human is doubt, fear, and shame, all the allotropes of unworthiness.

• And the audience connected to this terrible sense of humiliation, of unworthiness.”

• Their love is inexhaustible, and no unworthiness or misconduct on the part of their sons can destroy it.”

Use unworthiness in a sentence.

• He couldn’t just sit around proclaiming his unworthiness and wait for the Presidency to be thrust upon him.

• Howls of pain would come from the author, and mutterings about the unworthiness of compliance with a magazine’s tastes.

• Later, she did not think Sprigge was a good thing at all, referring to her as “La Sprigge” and pointing out “La Spriggeʼs unworthiness.”

• “ ‘This will touch your deep feelings of failure and unworthiness,’ ” Gerwig added, and then remembered her father’s response to the film.

• “ ‘This will touch your deep feelings of failure and unworthiness,’ ” Gerwig added, and then remembered her father’s response to the film.

• In many of Brown’s training seminars, participants, in small groups, address their own experiences of shame and unworthiness during the three-day intensive.

• Every night he comes With musics of all sorts, and songs compos’d To her unworthiness: it nothing steads us To chide him from our eaves; for he persists As if his life lay on ’t.

• In the summer of 1961, he goes abroad with his classmate Tom Atkins, whose attraction to him far exceeds your average schoolboy crush, depending as it does on Tom’s grinding sense of unworthiness and “craven need for monogamy.”

unworthiness sentence examples

• Indeed, in rebelling against his Pietist upbringing, Hesse ended up recapitulating its central themes: he never lost the habit of rigorous self-examination or his feelings of unworthiness and his longing for an experience of the divine.

• And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?