Wickham is brought low, even though he has corrupted Lydia.
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Meanwhile, the everyman hero of the story is brought low, providing emotional stakes.
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The bank was brought low by years of ill-judged acquisitions and mismanagement.
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First, many sports figures have been brought low by scandal (doping and sexual misbehavior).
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The book imagines the chief justice of the Supreme Court brought low by political gossip.
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The attendant desire to gawk and jeer at elephants brought low is an old one.
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To be humbled is to be brought low or somehow diminished in standing or stature.
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Now he was brought low, starved and exhausted from 16-hour days of slave labor.
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Some have been brought low by the revelations; others have escaped consequences, at least for now.
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Smaller, cheaper satellites have already brought low Earth orbit within reach of the average space dreamer.
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Again, think of all the men who have been brought low by the Me Too movement.
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He had, out of his sense of virtue, ignored the popular will and been brought low.
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Indeed, the catalog was so successful in part because it brought low prices to the countryside.
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Chris Christie of New Jersey, who has been separately brought low in an unrelated courtroom drama.
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"I suspect he regrets that, while also seeing opportunities in having the U.S. brought low," Sestanovich said.
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Southern California is experiencing a deep intrusion of marine air that has brought low clouds, fog and rain.
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Instead he was brought low by a pattern of petty human behavior born from his own moral failure.
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There is a space, and a solidarity and a real track record of towering men being brought low.
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This year — one of shocks and surprises and the great being brought low — the picture is pretty clear.
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The United States is a great country that may now be brought low by its loudest self-described defenders.
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Curiously enough, in the very next scene, Kane is brought low, exposed and shamed by his disrespect for his wife.
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Whiteout conditions brought low visibility to the small town of Chariton, Iowa, which is an hour south of Des Moines.
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Many superhero shows have started out promising, then dragged during their run, brought low by unnecessary padding or terrible plot twists.
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Meek Mill (may he rest in peace) was brought low last year mainly because Drake questioned his relationship with Nicki Minaj.
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In a primitive visual style and with chipperly voiced, subtitled narration, he spins fables of men brought low by their vanities.
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"Apollonian rigidity versus Dionysian catharsis is brilliantly etched as carnality opposes pretense and the haughty are brought low via mockery," he says.
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He has watched his business wither in recent months, brought low by protectionist measures imposed by Moscow in retaliation for Western sanctions.
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Microsoft once looked unassailable and was ultimately brought low by changing technology and the Justice Department, and so will Google, they say.
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It's equal parts morbid and fascinating: a company that came to embody the disruption of Silicon Valley, brought low by its own hubris.
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Obama, the candidate that a coalition of America's diversity elevated, must be brought low by the candidate that the right homogeneity has ordained.
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You may delight in seeing Katie Hill brought low but do you really want to live by the standards being set by this example?
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The Exploded Drawing party brought Low End Theory-style beat music to the Third Coast in 2010 with a monthly series of DIY parties.
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Literary works like Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium ("the fates of great men") explore our lust for stories about the big man brought low.
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I mentioned Lear earlier, but the more obvious prototype for this character is Job, the archetypal man of faith brought low by relentless affliction.
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Even in his inauguration address, Trump cast America as a declining empire -- brought low by its abandonment of the way things used to be.
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However it's diagnosed, it seems clear that this particular disease primarily affects powerful men who have been brought low by their own despicable behavior.
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The industry, brought low by #MeToo scandals, was scrambling to repent for the systemic predation of women and the exclusion of people of color.
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And President George W. Bush, brought low by the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina and the financial crisis, was a millstone for 2008 GOP nominee McCain.
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But I have to concede Mr. Houben's point that at the heart of most physical comedy is the communal enjoyment of watching dignity brought low.
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Detroit, for example, seems to have been brought low by the decline of the auto industry, something that didn't have much to do with antitrust policy.
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Climatempo, a popular private meteorology website, reported that a cold front brought low-lying clouds which then combined with smoke to form the thick black smog.
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Venezuela has run out of Electricity, Italy's banks have not quite been brought low by their Debiti, and lending for Used cars is receiving fresh attention.
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Margaery and Loras, brought low by imprisonment and seemingly at the lowest ebb of their hope, are about to get some from a most unlikely source.
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Recreating the role she played — to critical acclaim — in London in 2016, Ms. Jackson portrays Shakespeare's ruler, brought low by his daughters and his own arrogance.
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Both spent more than 63 years in the glow of what they describe as near-perfect marriages, then were brought low by the deaths of their spouses.
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Neil Gaiman's 22 novel American Gods tells the story of awesome, magical beings brought low by the loss of faith and the cold realities of the modern age.
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Usually women with power in the ancient world end up brought low, particularly if they intimidate the gods or do something like turn a hero's men into pigs.
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Hollow Knight has you exploring a dead world, walking through the ruins of a civilization brought low by pride and the inevitable rottenness at the heart of its universe.
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In doing so, he became the latest in a long line of male politicians, celebrities and journalists to be exposed and brought low by the burgeoning "Me Too" movement.
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And still, it seems not to have dawned on you (after a cavalcade of abusive men brought low and the whole #MeToo revolution) to keep your hands to yourself.
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Thomas Cook has been brought low by a $2.1 billion debt pile, built up by a series of ill-fated deals, that hobbled its response to nimble online rivals.
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Herbert D. Kelleher, who co-founded Southwest Airlines and brought low fares and no-frills air travel to the masses, died at the age of 87, the airline said Thursday.
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The media and Democrats alike may be used to a more traditional model of public politics, where extremists can be brought low by Have you no sense of decency, sir?
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Set in the New World in the 18th century, this wonderfully eccentric movie centers on an official of the Spanish empire brought low by hubris and the laughter of women.
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The season features new stagings of the medieval morality play "Everyman"; Shostakovich's tragic opera, "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District"; and Verdi's "I Due Foscari," about Italian nobles brought low.
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Thomas Cook has been brought low by a 1.7 billion pound ($2.1 billion) debt pile, online competition, a changing travel market and geopolitical events that can upend its summer season.
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But this model for gender justice, in which a villain is brought low to give the public their satisfaction, does not eradicate the power imbalances and resulting fear that animate harassment.
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The majority of Eagles fans operate primarily on spite, so to see Sam Bradford brought low after a year of mediocre play before them ranks among the season highlights to date.
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"Silicon Valley" concerns a small start-up called Pied Piper that is constantly bullied by a tech giant called Hooli, when it is not being brought low by its own employees.
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His performance was for the conservative base, to whom he now appears as a martyr to the vicious left, a paragon of a man brought low by the inquisitorial forces of #MeToo.
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When a top political leader is brought low, the process is often framed in the international media as a sign that democratic mechanisms and the rule of law are triumphing in Latin America.
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The loans have a face value of 26 billion euros but the bank, brought low by years of poor lending and mismanagement, is looking to sell them for around a fifth of that.
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Some men in power — Traister mentions Bill O'Reilly and Bill Cosby — have been brought low (or at least lower, as Cosby has so far avoided jail time) by accusations of harassment and assault.
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Hillary Clinton was brought low, in this telling, not because too many Democrats defected to Trump, but because too many of them stayed home (or had their votes suppressed) or voted third-party.
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Belgium's Evi van Acker, the defending bronze medalist brought low by the lingering effects of a gastrointestinal illness her doctors suspect came from Guanabara Bay's polluted waters, bounced back to move into fourth overall.
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So to see this great man brought low not by fighting Onslaught or the Phoenix Force, but by old age and mental illness, is a gut-punch as soon as you see him on-screen.
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It had been one of the most fortuitous marriages in recent college sports: a proud power brought low by a memorabilia scandal, matched with a brilliant native son in need of a change of scenery.
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The second Klan fell as fast as it rose; with several million members at its height in the mid-1920s, it had collapsed later in the decade to 350,000, brought low by internal corruption scandals.
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The former vice president has come back to the pack after a searing start to the race -- brought low(ish) by a seeming praise for a segregationist senator and a mediocre performance in the first debate.
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The investigation also raises the possibility that there may be more accusations of wrongdoing for a sport brought low by the series of indictments and arrests against top officials led by United States prosecutors in 2015.
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When it comes to the rich and mighty — say, a Harvey Weinstein or a Martin Shkreli, the smirking hedge fund manager — there is an inescapable reality: Many people take pleasure in seeing them demonstrably brought low.
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Massively successful though these movies have been, they do all seem to feature the same plot; a new villain with incredible power emerges, brought low only by a climactic fight in which a city is laid waste.
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It can also be read as a larger tragedy of liberal centrism, of white feminism itself, brought low by its own contradictions, incapable of comprehending what it is that people don't like about its self-serving logic.
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But what these incidents highlight most of all is that commercial airline tech still lags a lot of other industries, and can be brought low with incidents that would hardly bruise dedicated cloud service companies like Google and Amazon.
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Istvan Ujhelyi, a Socialist member of the European parliament from Hungary, a country dominated by nationalist leader Viktor Orban's Fidesz Party, called Strache "the first domino" in a line of likeminded politicians he predicted would soon be brought low.
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The film depicts Grey's character Chelsea as just another businessperson desperately trying to sell herself in New York as the markets crumble — much of her job involves listening to the woes of men brought low by the financial crisis.
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After Giuliani hit send on the aforementioned loose-fingered texts, full of grievance over the way Manafort had been brought low, the president's lawyer sent me another shorter—and more grammatically challenged—text message, hinting at things to come.
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Anecdotally, at least, it seems that the men so far shunned, canceled, excluded are slinking around in corners, griping about the new regime, while some of the as-yet-unscathed are excited to see their personal enemies brought low.
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Yes, he was brought low in the absolutely most predictable way -- a series of financial (and legal) disputes where he was on the losing end, and then the big one: an arrest for suspicion of domestic abuse last month.
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Running parallel to these threads of realpolitik and greed, Taylor and Wags's story line this episode raises the intriguing idea that even masters of the financial universe like themselves could be brought low by the rise of the machines.
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But it wasn't until 1994, the same year that once-celebrated O.J. Simpson was brought low following his arrest on double homicide charges, that Travolta rose phoenix-like from the not-quite-ashes of his acting career with Pulp Fiction.
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A decade after the start of the financial crisis, supervisors are still trying to make the banking sector more robust and avoid a repeat of the meltdown that started on trading floors and brought low the whole euro zone economy.
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Over a decade has passed since Major League Baseball left Montreal for good, brought low by a sequence of inept owners—including, at the end, Major League Baseball itself—a non-supportive media and business community, and an indifferent fan base.
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Lindy West In the end, which is where we live now, it turns out that America was brought low not by war or economic collapse or environmental catastrophe (though none of those are off the table) but by plausible deniability.
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Panarin argued that the U.S. would be brought low by a combination of mass immigration, mounting foreign debt, ethnic unrest and class conflict, leading to the disunification of the country into a "Texas Republic," a "Californian Republic" and so on.
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Robert Mann, an airline industry analyst and former executive, said that by eliminating onerous fees and unnecessary services and using secondary airports, like Love Field in Dallas, Southwest brought low prices to the market and stimulated demand for air travel.
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These kinds of inversions play a significant part in Christian scripture, which frequently proclaims that with God the first shall be last while the last shall be first; the lowly shall be exalted while the exalted shall be brought low.
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In this telling, it's about well-off people being brought low again; the fear that their pasts could be used to undo their futures; and, most of all, that what they used to get away with has become a liability.
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Squint and you can sometimes make out the bigger, more complex stories in "White Boy Rick," including those of a great city violently brought low; of fragile communities left to fail and rot; and of a legal system that seems permanently broken.
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Italy' fourth-largest bank, brought low by mismanagement and a huge bad loan pile, has been the biggest threat to the country's financial stability for years, until an 8.1 billion euro ($10 billion) bailout last summer handed the Rome government a 68 percent stake.
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After waiting for nearly a year for Kiev to accelerate reforms, the IMF announced the release of more aid on Wednesday as part of a $17.5 billion bailout to shore up an economy brought low by a pro-Russian separatist war in the east.
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The dauntingly erudite, strikingly handsome woman who became a star of the New York intelligentsia when barely thirty, after publishing the essay " Notes on Camp ," and who went on to produce book after book of advanced criticism and fiction , is brought low in this biography.
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Over the intervening six years, Weiner attempted a political comeback by seeking the Democratic nomination in the New York mayor's race in 2013 but was, again, brought low by his increasingly cavalier decisions to share explicit photos of himself with women he met via social media sites.
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Reviving the seven-reactor giant, with capacity of 8 gigawatts, is key to saving Tokyo Electric Power, which was brought low by the 2011 Fukushima explosions and meltdowns, and then the repeated admissions of cover-ups and safety lapses after the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
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"The car industry in the UK over the last two decades has been the jewel in the crown for the manufacturing sector – and now it has been brought low by the chaotic Brexit uncertainty," said Des Quinn, national officer for the automotive sector at Unite, Britain's biggest trade union.
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"The car industry in the UK over the last two decades has been the jewel in the crown for the manufacturing sector and now it has been brought low by the chaotic Brexit uncertainty," said Des Quinn, national officer for the automotive sector at Unite, Britain's biggest trade union.
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"The car industry in the UK over the last two decades has been the jewel in the crown for the manufacturing sector and now it has been brought low by the chaotic Brexit uncertainty," said Des Quinn, national officer for the automotive sector at Britain's biggest trade union Unite.
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And if so, will this cause the seas to rise, the skies to darken, the mountains to tremble and the events of Ragnarok to unfold, with the great wolf Fenris devouring Odin the All-Father and even mighty Thor brought low, after slaying the world-encircling Midgard serpent?
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Ukraine's central bank has for years tried to nudge PrivatBank to clean up its balance sheet and on Monday, it declared the lender — already hit by economic turmoil and the war against Russian-backed separatists since 2014 — insolvent, adding that it had also been was brought low by risky lending.
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But he was brought low at Louisville by repeated scandals, including an extramarital affair with the future wife of a staff member and the scandal that led to vacated wins, in which a former staff member repeatedly paid for strippers and prostitutes to entertain recruits and players in on-campus housing.
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To this day Turing is recognized in his own country and among a broad society of scientists as a pillar of achievement who had fused brilliance and eccentricity, had moved comfortably in the abstruse realms of mathematics and cryptography but awkwardly in social settings, and had been brought low by the hostile society into which he was born.
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To see such a bright light brought low by infirmity is always hard, but this, or any other of the later videos of him at signings and conventions watch some of the later videos of him at signings and conventions: What comes across strongest is never that Heenan was pitiable; it's that all of the wrestlers would come up to him awash in reverence.
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