abnegation

How To Use abnegation In A Sentence

• This self-abnegation from letters of the 1970s should be taken as sincere. The Times Literary Supplement
• At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity.
• Moreover, Llewellyn's almost complete abnegation of issues of style, iconography, authorship, or artistic quality results in a rather restricted view of the monuments as mere historical objects, as products of an industry.
• We enjoy the abnegation of responsibility that comes with a terse command. Times, Sunday Times
• If, however, we include in the term morality the transitory display of certain qualities such as abnegation, self-sacrifice, disinterestedness, devotion, and the need of equity, we may say, on the contrary, that crowds may exhibit at times a very lofty morality. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
• If the Court holds fast to its abnegation of this traditional role, it could mark a sea change in federal-state relations.
• Women responded especially strongly to this soulful portrait of grief, self-abnegation and recovery. Times, Sunday Times
• Professor Haroon Mustafa Leon elaborates: ‘one of the glories of Islam is that it is founded on reason, and that it never demands from its followers an abnegation of that important mental faculty.’
• He begins by noting what should be obvious: Given the centrality of freedom of expression "to an academic community, a university's suing a student for libel constitutes a curious act of self-abnegation, rather like the United Way taking a position against charitable giving, or the National Cattlemen's Beef Association urging that all Americans embrace a vegan diet. Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: When Academic Administrators Lose Their Moral Compass
• She has therefore an opportunity for exercising in behalf of her dog that beautiful self-abnegation which is said to be a part of woman's nature, impelling her always to prefer that her laurels should be worn by somebody else. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays