abasement

How To Use abasement In A Sentence

• Without George, Equiano's abasement is without an agent, and therefore his connection to the invisible church reverts from one of masochistic practice to one of readerly identification. The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire
• Or inspire some awful comparison bug that would cause us all to sink into a miserable heap of self-abasement? Whoa. Wait a Second. A Decade? Really? I Didn’t Even Realize… « Looking for Roots
• Is she bowed down before God in prostration of need, in conscious dejection of unworthiness, in passionate self-abasement and desire for that renewal which comes through renunciation?
• The characteristics of kafkaesque s personality mechanism was fear and self - abasement.
• Such a sight and conviction of it as may fill us with self-abhorrency and abasement, as may cause us to loathe ourselves for the abomination that is in it, is required of us; and this is the work of the Holy Pneumatologia
• I was heartily ashamed of myself, and mingled with my abasement was a great relief. The Man in Lower Ten
• I realized that this self-abasement or internalized moralistic rebuke was what I had been writing about from the very beginning.
• And stranger than all was that, now that he did see that she was lost in love of him, there came to him, not sorrow and humility and abasement, but something else that he struggled in vain against -- something entirely strange and new, that, had he analysed it, he would have found to be petulance and irritation and resentment and ungentleness. Widdershins
• Each character, from the children to the elders, responds to Grace's self-abasement by enacting the expected role of brute in their own particular way.
• Throughout history a doffed hat has symbolized defeat, humility and abasement before one's betters.