How To Use Abasement In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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?
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The characteristics of kafkaesque s personality mechanism was fear and self - abasement.
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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
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I was heartily ashamed of myself, and mingled with my abasement was a great relief.
The Man in Lower Ten
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I realized that this self-abasement or internalized moralistic rebuke was what I had been writing about from the very beginning.
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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
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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.
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Throughout history a doffed hat has symbolized defeat, humility and abasement before one's betters.
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Now, however, it is part of the lingo of abasement.
No Uncertain Terms
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Europe's self-abasement comes just weeks after the last round of Eurozone crisis mismanagement.
Europe Doesn't Need China's Money
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She allows us to examine our own appetites for public abasement without feeling guilty.
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Sam would be kept away from pop music and television but would study the viola as a salutary form of self-abasement.
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“This twofoldness (_duplicité_),” he says, “is so visible, that some have conceived that man must have two souls — a simple subject appearing to them incapable of such and so sudden variations; an immeasurable presumption on the one hand, a horrible abasement on the other.
Pascal
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White Fang crawled slowly, cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission.
The Trail of the Gods
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Their regiment was then disbanded in disgrace - a uniquely Canadian act of self-abasement for which, naturally, the Canadians received no international credit.
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Swearing allegiance to the powers that be in a ritual of public abasement is something that should have gone out with feudalism.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ninth Circuit Upholds “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance,
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By exacerbating the contradiction between self-determination and self-abasement, the way was cleared for an epochal resolution.
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What's conservative about demanding people submit to public self-abasement?
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Perhaps what takes Hamlet so much time in the play is that a ritual of abasement needs to performed.
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When the dawn of 21 centuries comes, abluent the Hong Kong of hundred years colonial abasement, return the bosom of motherland mother eventually.
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It involves, onstage or off, complete self-abasement and (again whether in life or on stage) is very painful.
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A few selections purely for the purposes of self-abasement follow.
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Evolve as historical linear, I wish this paragraph of abasement makes historical text book forever.
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Audacity often brought rewards; self-abasement seldom did.
Red dust
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The result was a lengthy and noisy competition in self-abasement and mutual re-assurance.
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It is not so much an abasement of self as an acknowledgment that one's own way may not be the only or even the best way.
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The failing to do this is the greatest mistake of the present generation, for if girls be capable of nothing but morbid sentiment or what we term flirtation, they will naturally look to matrimony as their destiny and as a means of support -- a self-abasement from which no woman can fully recover, even under the most favorable circumstances.
How to Train Girls.
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From clinical examinations, most NE children suffer from mental problems such as depression, self-abasement and difficulties in dealing with personal relations.
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Her solicitor - partly responsible for keeping the 24 year-old's spirits high - approves of the abasement and thus advertises to the world that here is a penitent woman.
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To beg for votes, as if they were alms or broken victuals, is a form of mendicancy which is incompatible with common self-respect, and yet it is a self-abasement which thirty years ago custom imperatively demanded.
Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography
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White Fang crawled slowly, cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission.
The Trail of the Gods
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Appeasement and compromise will turn enemies into friends, if groveling and self-abasement do not first drive friends into the enemy camp.
Farewell to America's China Station
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But the abasement is the action of My friends who connect themselves with Us and follow the devil in their actions.
A Traveler’s Narrative
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The self-abasement, you'll have noticed, is rhetorical.
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A pied-piper's trail of opportunity discarded, needless abasement endured, and a grievous ransom paid in blood and treasure.
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First, that the agent of abasement shifts from George the indigene sovereign to the "Sons of Belial.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire
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I beg that someone will recognise my abasement and meet my very human but mutually exclusive needs.
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If Gervais has the biggest head in comedy, Merchant now establishes himself as the king of self-abasement.
Stephen Merchant: Hello Ladies – review
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Welcome to the complete and total abasement of our Party.
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each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement
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They incorrectly insist on self-abasement, worship of angels, and the centrality of visions.
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It was as if they wanted to punish me for not falling over in praise of the self-abasement they wanted me to portray as their muse, or something.
Roseanne Archy
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Voluntary self-abasement is also a trait of a showman
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These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.
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Admit what you don't know (self-abasement is not attractive, by the way) and listen to the information you are given.
DISABILITY 101: SOME GUIDELINES
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It's a tribute to the filmmakers' verve that they've kept the sex scenes funny—extremely funny—since what we're seeing is sheer self-abasement.
'Bridesmaids' Catches the Bouquet
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A lively and enlightened faith, a solid and fervent piety, and a superior mind, convinced him that since the time of the abasement of the Son of God, humiliation is honorable, and adds to the splendor of the highest dignities; a truth which is not understood by persons of little faith, by the proud, the indevout, and those of little mind.
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
