How To Use Abject In A Sentence

You can't have a show called Politically Incorrect and then abjectly apologize for not being PC.
Another (even greater) problem was that she was unwilling to submit to her dictates or prostrate herself in abject submission.
The attempt ended in abject failure.
Trojans turned in an abject performance to crash to their heaviest defeat in over four years.
The Vera Icon clearly shows the humiliation and abjection of the incarnate Christ.

And no wonder after this abject display from City. The Sun
Unless looks deceive so convincingly, he does not look indigent and like someone in state of abject poverty; more like a man in full control of his bearing, faculties and appearance.
The struggle between abundance and abjection is an age-old story that has left physical and psychic scars on the watery landscape of the Delta.
The former dictator, a palace-dwelling billionaire, was the picture of bedraggled abjectness: mouth forced open, eyes staring glassily.
To dismiss the cause of integration, even through complacency, is to condemn the abject to the continuance of the system. Racebending and Integration
Cassandra, her older sister Rose and her younger brother Thomas are living in poverty even more abject than the Bastables, in a broken - down castle.
A central reason cited for the cutback was the abject failure of highly touted sports movies.
But they still produced a string of abject performances. The Sun
Granted, there is a trueness of voice in those who have experienced first-hand the hours of relentless boredom punctuated by moments of abject terror that is combat, or law enforcement, for that matter.
I had access to extreme beauty, yet we lived in abject poverty. Times, Sunday Times
They gave an abject display in a match that was as entertaining as watching fish being shot in a barrel. Times, Sunday Times
John, who, in the most abject terms besought pardon for the injuries he had inflicted. The Boy Knight
The Japanese staff bowed their heads in abject misery. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
When Margarett fell into abject depression days later, Shaw was prepared.
He's overcome some genuinely tough customers, but Gimenez was abject.
Both of them died in abject poverty.
The setting is one of abject poverty and misery, yet the upbeat caption tells us that even victims of disaster need a good shoeshine.
Since ‘abjection is coextensive with the Symbolic Order,’ any representation of that order can be scrutinized for its hidden presence.
We are actors in nature and time, essential parts of the universe story, main protagonists - not doomed sinners or abject sufferers.
How can we take without either a shudder or a laugh the abject refusal of Emmathat "imaginist," self-indulgent, independent, charmingly creative and snobbish heroineto call Knightley "George" after they are betrothed: "I never can call you any thing but Mr. Knightley" (III. xvii, 420). Box Hill and the Limits of Realism
White Fang crawled slowly, cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission. The Trail of the Gods
My previously sunny and happy demeanour changed to one of abject horror.
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Isn't humiliation on your own TV network, followed by an abject apology, enough?
But of what they call counterfeit pleasures they make naught; as of pride in apparel and gems, or in vain honours; or of dicing; or hunting, which they deem the most abject kind of butchery. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
To me, this paints a picture of a deeply insecure woman who had long since waved goodbye to the verge of paranoia and blundered into the chasm of abject delusion.
They have made no difference and the people live in abject poverty. The Sun
The one thing I know I could describe is the rollercoaster ride that your feelings experience, from abject dejection at diagnosis to jubilation at a positive blood count.
Many are attracted by the prospect of observing a menagerie of erotic freaks and abject ferals.
This is the LAW (the author and I use no different terms) which this new government, almost as soon as it could cry in the cradle, and as one of the very first acts by which it auspicated its entrance into function, the pledge it gives of the firmness of its policy, -- such is the law that this proud power prescribes to abject nations. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
Coming to men with the Circean torch of licentiousness in her hand, with fair promises of freedom, she first stupefies the conscience, and brutifies the affections; and then renders her votaries the most abject slaves of guilt and crime. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
This scheme was an abject failure.
The term “sensation novels” emerges as a profoundly apt encapsulation of the qualities of strangeness this process of abjection is locked onto (and one that is a precursor of “genre fiction” and comparable with “coloured people” in its disregard for the sensationalist content of writers like Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Emily Brontë and countless others in the canon). What is Literary Fiction?
The thought of working nights fills me with abject horror.
Transgender rage is the subjective experience of being compelled to transgress what Judith Butler has referred to as the highly gendered regulatory schemata that determine the viability of bodies, of being compelled to enter a “domain of abjected bodies, a field of deformation” that in its unlivability encompasses and constitutes the realm of legitimate subjectivity. Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What
He was pained by the abject poverty and the trouble women had to undergo to fetch water for the families.
The abject volte-face that inevitably followed such episodes left him ever more in her thrall. THE ENDLESS GAME
He was to live, it appeared, abominably worried, he was to live consciously rueful, he was to live perhaps even what a scoffing world would call abjectly exposed; but at least he was to live saved. The Finer Grain
In speaking to them, however, they always used the most abject language, and the most humble tone and posture – "Please your honour, – and please your honour's honour," they knew must be repeated as a charm at the beginning and end of every equivocating, exculpatory, or supplicatory sentence – and they were much more alert in doffing their caps to these new men, than to those of what they call good old families. Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale
And no wonder after this abject display from City. The Sun
From a position of optimism generated by a highly impressive presentation, potential winners had suddenly become abject losers, all the long hours of campaigning reduced to nothing.
They have made no difference and the people live in abject poverty. The Sun
There is no reason to suppose that the idea of sparing him was ever entertained; but, wherever the blame lay, he was led to believe that a recantation might save him; and he did now at last break down utterly, and recant in the most abject terms. England under the Tudors
To school plodding stubbornly through the snowdrifts in short trousers with chapped knees to sit in a draughty classroom in abject fear of a teacher who had recently traversed Europe inside a tank turret and who took no prisoners with his booming voice, the result of his deafness. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
Most live in conditions so abject that there is little to distinguish them from the most wretched chattel slaves of the past.
Not at all well if one were to judge by their abject performance against Australia at the Principality stadium last weekend. Times, Sunday Times
About time all those who voted for him abjectly expressed their apologies to the coming generation of young citizens.
If we permit them - and only our principled resistance, peaceful where possible, but forceful where necessary, is the only thing that will stop them - those who presume to rule us intend to reduce us to abject helotry. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
Gravius contumeliam ferimus quam detrimentum, ni abjecto nimis animo sinius. Anatomy of Melancholy
The pittance paid out in compensation for retrenchment has provided barely a few months subsistence, with former employees being thrown into abject poverty.
The abject misery and utter abandon is positively indescribable.
The regime controlled every aspect of life and reduced everyone to the level of abject obedience through terror.
My behaviour, when I am conducting perfectly legitimate activity such as registering an insurance claim, is one of abject apology.
This policy has turned out to be an abject failure.
I distinctly remember the overwhelming feeling of abject helplessness which this incident brought about.
The thrust of both books is his failure to protect the national interests of Britain and his abject subservience to the United States.
God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty. ' Mike Green: Innovation Crisis in Black America Pt. 4: 20th vs 21st century ideology
All his attempts to organize street parties, coach outings and singalongs in the local pubs ended in abject failure.
But I can't fathom anyone reading stories like this and not feeling the sting and burn of utter, abject shame.
The Japanese staff bowed their heads in abject misery. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
The abjectness of their servitude is incomprehensible to us. Chapter 5: The Philomaths
For much of the past two centuries, the Chumash of Santa Ynez lived in anonymity and abject poverty.
Since they are abject human beings, he implies, he does not have to engage them at that level.
The abject failure to accept that fact only makes the manager's job even harder.
Four days after this learned 'lucubration' the voice of the warm-hearted magistrate speaks in a reminder of the prevailing abject misery of the London poor who “in the most miserable lingering Manner do daily perish for Want in this Metropolis.” Henry Fielding A Memoir
Knowing all this, the Babu asked the Brahman point-blank to perform a false samadhi, that is to say, to feign an inspiration and to announce to the sorrowing mother that her late son's will had acted consciously in all the circumstances; that he brought about his end in the body of the flying fox, that he was tired of that grade of transmigration, that he longed for death in order to attain a higher position in the animal kingdom, that he is happy, and that he is deeply indebted to the sahib who broke his neck and so freed him from his abject embodiment. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
The notion that the official machine will grind to a halt in these conditions is abject nonsense. Times, Sunday Times
Three days later they played abjectly in Croatia and lost 1-0.
Standing firmly on the side of the poor (if only because he himself lived in abject poverty), Bloy embraced the Beatitudes ' inversions, rewriting abjection as election.
However with no middle class, the vast bulk of its people are living in abject and unsustainable poverty.
The former dictator was the picture of bedraggled abjectness: mouth forced open, eyes staring glassily.
What a moment of abject humiliation! Times, Sunday Times
He chose to live in abject poverty, sleeping rough and relying for his food on begging. MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE
United's abjectness was pivotal to them being routed by Rangers on Wednesday.
But if a story simply exploits that causal relationship rather than interrogating it, representation of abjection can shade into perpetration of abjection. Kings
She can feel the stultifying terror caught from Mama's hand, the abject stillness of Papa. SEA MUSIC
She was too gentle to tyrannize over her playfellow, yet she had ruled him abjectly, except when in canoe, or on horse or surf-board, at which times he had taken charge and she had rendered obedience. ALOHA OE
The attempt ended in abject failure.
He chose to live in abject poverty, sleeping rough and relying for his food on begging. MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE
A small exploitative class of intermediaries benefited enormously from the neocolonial relationship, but the masses were sunk in abject poverty and misery.
I answered, staggered at this abject rudeness.
Such organizations, of course, must have leaders; there must be men in them whose ignorance and imbecility are measurably less abject than the ignorance and imbecility of the average.
This time there was a little jostling followed by an abject apology. Times, Sunday Times
Once before he had tried Spencer, and choosing the "Principles of Psychology" to begin with, he had failed as abjectly as he had failed with Madam Blavatsky. Chapter 13
[T] aken as a whole, cogent piece of work, Paris makes an underwhelming survey of the state of the art house - nothing here even whiffs at the rarified abjection found in Antonioni's segment in 1953's similarly conceived, Rome-set L'Amore in citta," writes Nick Pinkerton at indieWIRE. GreenCine Daily: Paris je t'aime.
This time there was a little jostling followed by an abject apology. Times, Sunday Times
However, this is actually an abject admission of failure.
He is slumping in despair and abjection, a feeling he is becoming increasingly used to during these days of prosecution evidence. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
There is not a single, simple explanation for this abject failure, but a series of overlapping factors. Times, Sunday Times
It was not a totally abject performance from his team. Times, Sunday Times
I'm usually a sucker for full-on bad taste, but this was just so abject.
Each year at harvest, the prince hosts a feast for the noblemen of the countryside, while the peasants who farm his land grovel in abject poverty.
They gave an abject display in a match that was as entertaining as watching fish being shot in a barrel. Times, Sunday Times
The failure is abject, irrespective of the result. Times, Sunday Times
Ice-cold, shocked, her stomach a tight knot of abject terror, Polly gazed wildly around her.
But they still produced a string of abject performances. The Sun
The feeling of abject misery stuck to me like permanently wet clothes. Times, Sunday Times
Vassell has recently returned to form after a barren spell with Aston Villa, while Alan Smith, for this writer at least, has failed to hit the heights of the past in an admittedly abject Leeds side.
Instead, we are now "engaged" and abjectly dependent upon this fascist beast for so many or our essentials and for the support of our currency and fiscal recklessness.
The interest you see in London with dirt, the abject, and those uncontrollable interstitial spaces is a little mark of resistance against that process.
This is so, he concluded, because for the generality of humankind death comes as an imposition: it is a form of abjection to which all must submit with resignation, and which all must accept because they have no choice.
This problem is not confined to high-tech companies, of course, though the problem is worse there because of the abjectness with which the public and media prostrate themselves at those companies' feet. Buy an iPrude © and support censorship!
The Sisters also try never to reject anyone in abject poverty, the hungry or starving.
Its strategy was an abject failure on its own terms, for the Gaullists romped home in the June elections.
Bolivia is a country rich in resources, yet its majority Indian population is mired in unemployment and abject poverty.
abject surrender
Fine: then what is called for now is not triumphalism and gloating, but an abject apology.
The sun set about ten o'clock, and Lady Clare and Shag greeted its last departing rays with a whinny, accompanied by a wanton kickup from the rear -- for whatever Lady Clare did Shag felt in honor bound to do, and was conscious of no disgrace in his abject and ape-like imitation. Boyhood in Norway
They produced a string of abject displays to lose 3-1. The Sun
“Because our culture so highly values self-control and control of circumstances, we become abject when contemplating mentation that seems more changeable, less restrained and less controllable, more open to outside influence, than we imagine our own to be.” Crazy Like Us
It has turned out an abject humiliation. The Sun
Now it is no more than a pathetic and abjectly partisan rag, not even worthy of tearing up and hanging in the outside dunny.
On the few occasions I was driven to use such chastisement, it felt like an abject admission of parental failure.
Billy moaned and groaned in the abjectness of humility and surrender, and let her have her way. CHAPTER V
When she emerged from the airlock, her expression showed abject misery and defeat. Masked
Is there no limit to the abjectness of the Church's response to terror?
They live in abject poverty.
Rendered with harsh black lines in Pierson's characteristic expressionist style, the figure bows its head in abject repose.
Thus it was amazing to me how quickly, faced with the possible loss of the most important person in the world, I overcame my puritan principles and called abjectly for help. RutlandHerald.com
What can one say about such an abject humiliation at Wembley? Times, Sunday Times
The thought of working nights fills me with abject horror.
The former -- when we're talking about homosexuality, rather than your bugaboos of incest, etc. -- is a variant behaviour which is used to mark out another group as deviants to be abjected by the unethical who justify their prejudice as morality. Archive 2009-08-01
I won't attempt a plot synopsis, as every such attempt is doomed to abject failure.
the most abject slaves joined in the revolt
It is behaviour of such abject venality as to be almost beneath contempt.
The Sisters also try never to reject anyone in abject poverty, the hungry or starving.
Understanding her dance has rested upon a binary that relegates ballet to a position of abjection, impurity and ugliness.
Selling it to the very organisation you bought it from is abject humiliation. Times, Sunday Times
But, he was a very religious man so everyone had to shut up and let him have a job he was abjectly unqualified for because to do otherwise would be theocratically incorrect.
People are having fun in this town, it's not all poverty and abject misery.
This scheme was an abject failure.
Wealth was much more frequent than abject poverty.
The failure is abject, irrespective of the result. Times, Sunday Times
Yet we know that even in such utterly abject circumstances, these people were not simply passive victims.
The old USSR was run by men who did not see the abject and instantaneous murder of civilians as a reason to celebrate.
It prompted an abject apology from the secret service. Times, Sunday Times
They have made no difference and the people live in abject poverty. The Sun
The abject failure to admit to this is the big deceit of British politics. Times, Sunday Times
What can one say about such an abject humiliation at Wembley? Times, Sunday Times
Outside the small, vibrant city centre there were signs of abject poverty. Times, Sunday Times
That would do a whole lot more for civilised and democratic behaviour than abject capitulation to these self-evident hypocrites.
But his love of me is wonderful; I go further: I, who sicken and freeze at the mere thought of him, when I recall the abjection and passion of this attachment, and when I know how he fears my power to cut him off by suicide, I find it in my heart to pity him. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Processional races and the abject lack of competition for the 36 - year - old Schumacher and his reluctant understudy Rubens Barrichello sparked a winter of bitter in-fighting .
Tamara put on an abject expression, tilting her head in a hangdog way. The Omega Theory
his mother was his abject slave
Abjection, evacuation and ecstasy all commingle in this terrified exaltation.
Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance. Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood
This was one of the most abject stuffings in the history of Scottish rugby, with Glasgow losing out on power, pace and skill, as well as almost every phase.
Not at all well if one were to judge by their abject performance against Australia at the Principality stadium last weekend. Times, Sunday Times
It has turned out an abject humiliation. The Sun
So strong was the play-instinct in him, as well as was his constitution strong, that he continually outplayed Scraps to abject weariness, so that he could only lie on the deck and pant and laugh through air-draughty lips and dab futilely in the air with weak forepaws at Michael's continued ferocious-acted onslaughts. CHAPTER XI
Bashti, who had lived so long that he was a philosopher who minded pain little and the loss of a finger less, chuckled and chirped his satisfaction and pride of achievement in the outcome, while his three old wives, who lived only at the nod of his head, fawned under him on the floor in the abjectness of servile congratulation and worship. CHAPTER XI
Apologies, official, abject, routinely demanded, and formally offered, are considered not just a right but a requirement.
A key point of the notion of abjection is that the abject is or was essentially a part of us in some profound sense. Archive 2009-05-01
Four abject stereotypes with guns chase him down corridors, spraying bullets and whooping with redneck glee.
Selling it to the very organisation you bought it from is abject humiliation. Times, Sunday Times
However, the only thing he can offer this bobby socks babe is abject poverty, since his pop is a boozehound with a weak employment record and even frailer liver.
Joss-house, and in the most abject terms implore forgiveness for his intemperate language over-night. Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War
Many boards are still overpaying themselves for abject failure.
On an emotional day like October 19, he could have made the difference between success and abject failure.
Rather it is that these terms have become inextricable from the abhorrence or disdain in which the moral dicta defining the object as abject is articulated. On Profanity: 3
If they tend to "craven fear and trembling" in any regard, it is in the worry that by daring to, say, present a character like Gaeta as openly homosexual on mainstream television, they will potentially alienate a conservative audience who still abjects gays and desires them absented from the media (and ultimately reality). Archive 2009-08-01
By any intelligent standard, we are failing abjectly.
Not at all well if one were to judge by their abject performance against Australia at the Principality stadium last weekend. Times, Sunday Times
With the game being a drudgery of spilled balls, abject kicking and woeful execution of the few scoring opportunities that were created the mind wandered.
Can a more triumphant imbecile, a more abject dabster, a more stercoraceous bourgeois be found! The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
Outside the small, vibrant city centre there were signs of abject poverty. Times, Sunday Times
But his love of life is wonderful; I go further: I, who sicken and freeze at the mere thought of him, when I recall the abjection and passion of this attachment, and when I know how he fears my power to cut him off by suicide, I find it in my heart to pity him. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
They might, out of abject fear and loneliness, dream away the hours on observation post, delighting, as Cacciato does, in a stick of Black Jack gum.
There is not a single, simple explanation for this abject failure, but a series of overlapping factors. Times, Sunday Times
The thrown-off abject, the product of abjection, is thus the symbolic and disguised repository of that violence and basic otherness-of-the-self-within-itself, the means for staking out a supposed identity over against it. Hogle, Introduction, Frankenstein's Dream, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles
One never knows why these people are thrown into a society where there is no development and these people are living in horrendous conditions of abject poverty.
Just the first line of your last post was so utterly ludicrous and abjectly stupid I am ashamed to be the same species as someone as bone chillingly ignorant as you. Think Progress » CBS Allows Focus On The Family Advocacy Ad During Super Bowl, But Bans Gay Dating Site Ad
What these hopefuls achieved for their pleasure and pain was a violent lifestyle of abject poverty.
Not only did the footballers perform abjectly, but their attitude was all wrong.
a total detachment from things below -- an entire renunciation of the most innocent pleasures; have given birth to a sluggishness, to a pusillanimity, to an abjection of soul, to an insociability, that renders him useless to himself, dangerous to others? The System of Nature, Volume 1
It was not a totally abject performance from his team. Times, Sunday Times
Prescriptivism in the strange fiction genres is ideally situated to act as carrier of anti-intellectualism and classism, with advocates of more commercial fiction decreeing complex works “improper” and advocates of more complex fiction decreeing commercial works “improper”, each opponent of “elitist wank” or “populist trash” ironically engendering a counter-response that abjects them as a “pleb” or a “snob”. Archive 2009-06-01
They gave an abject display in a match that was as entertaining as watching fish being shot in a barrel. Times, Sunday Times
The abjectness of their servitude is incomprehensible to us. Chapter 5: The Philomaths
He can't bear the fact that ‘the deception and abjection that filled his own soul was what he saw also in others, always.’
I am struck by the grinding abject poverty I have seen.
This return of the ‘real’ marks an outside always present within discourse, for the outside is continuously abjected by discourse during its constitution.
The plan was an abject failure. Times, Sunday Times
One of the great tzaddikim lived in abject poverty, yet always had a happy disposition.
Lack of access to these essentials is generally referred to as living in extreme or abject poverty.
Its report, in the spring, is likely to demand radical change in relations between the rich and poor world if abject poverty is to be vanquished.
However, many people are living in abject poverty because of the poll tax.
The failure is abject, irrespective of the result. Times, Sunday Times
An actor himself, he doesn't write plays so much as actors' exercises: violently angry confrontations, absurdly bizarre vignettes, and abject deflations good for practicing sotto voce underacting.
After all, there are only two ways to divert the attention of the international community from the more pressing and immediate problems of abject hunger and poverty.
He said the State had abjectly failed the workers and their families, some 100,000 people.
The more abject you felt, the more likely was it that you would appreciate their pinchbeck glories; and you sat on, in the darbar vehicle, the two lean horses foaming with the drive from the guest-house, under the weight of a not too modern chariot and a harness patched up with strips of soiled rag or old packing-cord. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
I see this in Scottish writing, IMO, and I know Scott Bakker has talked about it in respect to Canadian writing -- a more institutionalised aversion to the abjected "genre". What is Literary Fiction?
It helps to remember that in the early 1960s, before the Stonewall Nation, feminists, and anti-colonial guerillas rose up to fight for pride and empowerment, abject depictions of women, queers and the colonized were still the default expression buttressed by law and religion. G. Roger Denson: Jack Smith and the Aesthetics of Camp in an Era of Political Correctness

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