Sure, the boots still needed to be taken to the cobbler, but a night of mortification was turned around by one Lady Macguyver.

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Sir George later wrote of his disappointment on not rejoining Lord Nelson and the "additional mortification of not not sharing in the glory of the Battle of Trafalgar".

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And it's a day of vindication for a former president who saw clearly, but spoke poorly (to the delighted mortification of the media).

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The remarkable German actor Ulrich Matthes, with his spooked, black-eyed stare, burns with rage and mortification in the role of Henri Kremer, an anti-Nazi Catholic priest from Luxembourg who was interned at Dachau in 1942.

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