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

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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
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
But it suggests an abnegation of responsibility; after all, serial killers often think they're doing God's work too.
Do NOT allow a few sundry Lieutenant-Colonels or Grade Five public servants alone swing for this shameful abnegation of Ministerial responsibility.
By surrendering your personal will to the whim of the die you are practicing precisely that self-abnegation prescribed in the scriptures. THE DICE MAN
They discussed the abnegation of God.
It was the sublime abnegation of true love that comes to all lovers, and it came to him there, at the telephone, in a whirlwind of fire and glory; and to die for her, he felt, was to have lived and loved well. Chapter 12
In the ensuing confusion the Catholic community locally and nationally saw this as an abnegation of the 1944 Education Act.
You lose yourself in it so much you find yourself creating scenarios to fit the songs from your own experiences, you alter the past and indulge in power fantasies of abnegation and collapse.
And so he recedes, through phases of Bob Dylan – esque self-abnegation, while his band pushes forward with its bliss-filled racket. Sing to the Lord a New Song
In these enthusiasts we shall find striking examples of one of the morbid forces of human nature; yet in candor let us do honor to what was genuine in them, -- that principle of self-abnegation which is the life of true religion, and which is vital no less to the highest forms of heroism. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
Built using a surprising array of materials and techniques, each dress focuses on primal elements of human nature - the soul, memory, seduction, abnegation.
Selflessness also lies at the core of what is essential in a general, for both moral and physical courage derive from self-abnegation.
His work, though far from didactic, is full of moral implications; his example of aesthetic idealism, set by abnegation and artistry is a standing rebuke to facility and venality, callousness and obtuseness. James Joyce
Shulamith Firestone deems motherhood “a condition of terminal psychological and social decay, total self-abnegation and physical deterioration.” On Being a Bad Mother
It would be a serious abnegation of leadership if he were to do nothing. Times, Sunday Times
It is frustrating to witness the abnegation of human rights on such a foolish cause.
Basically, after years of self-abnegation, Britain now has an old fashioned tax-and-spend government.
The third story was the most autobiographical one, built in part around my own struggles with my family and their abnegation of any feeling of responsibility.
Has the relentless Necessity of Comte erected its huge mill on this continent, to grimly grind out the annual quantity of patriotism, tyranny, noble self-abnegation, or Machiavelism, in the prescribed, invariable ratio of "Sociology? Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice
Such abnegation has become a popular tactic in these anti - political times.
Known as Sufi (literal meaning - wool, as in ascetics who wore woolen garments), they opted for solitude and abnegation, renouncing physical comforts.
Her wartime letters, showing her abnegation, selfless duty and distress, make impressive reading. The Times Literary Supplement
The shoes are the telling detail, proof that the song's protagonist has slipped from stability into a downward spiral of apathy and self-abnegation.
At the last issue, he and she were two separate beings, not made one by the miracle of common forbearances, duties, abnegations, but bound together in a _noyade_ of passion that left them resisting yet clinging as they went down. The Greater Inclination
Instead, it surely refers to a state of total stillness and even abnegation, an ideal that religious adepts of all disciplines have long aspired to.
Will the discursive spaces within the left be divided into radical, semi-radical, not-so radical, etc. depending on abnegation of one's own particularism?
Some religious traditions indeed predicate apocalyptic hope on a lifetime of self-abnegation and the renunciation of all individual markers of significance and distinction.
And the critic Ba'al Makhshoves goes one step further, ascribing some familiar elements of the Jewish sense of humour to the stetl life of holy abnegation.
What we're actually witnessing here is an abnegation of artistic responsibility. Times, Sunday Times
abnegation of the Holy Trinity
These privileges were the reward for the abnegation and servility demanded of Party functionaries.
Judging School Discipline casts a backward glance at the roots of this dilemma to show how a laudable concern for civil liberties forty years ago has resulted in oppressive abnegation of adult responsibility now.
Though this has been portrayed as genuine consultation, in fact the lack of any real, driving ideas about educational reform is an abnegation of political responsibility.
The pro-Western Gulf or North African allied states have nothing to gain in seeing American influence or military power devalued in their region—either by others, or as is the current fad in Washington, through American self-abnegation. Arabs Love the Pax Americana
Built using a surprising array of materials and techniques, each dress focuses on primal elements of human nature - the soul, memory, seduction, abnegation.
I would like to think that by now I am free, but though I have a lot of positive emotion associated with my sexuality, I believe I will never escape fully from the abnegation.
There is often a wilful abnegation of logic, fairness and innate intelligence. Times, Sunday Times
Given that the abnegation of the ego is enjoined by almost every spiritual tradition, this becomes relevant across the spectrum of faiths.
In his obituary, The Times recorded that ‘Wittgenstein showed the characteristics of a religious contemplative of the hermit type’, and referred to his extreme abnegation and retirement.
Obeying the guru required discipline and self-abnegation, an exercise that was always beneficial to the spiritual aspirant.
In isolation, Joan's virginity could signify an abnegation furthering spirituality-a rejection of the worldly in favor of the otherworldly, as in the assertions of nuns and virgin martyrs that their spouse is Christ.
In the ensuing confusion the Catholic community locally and nationally saw this as an abnegation of the 1944 Education Act.
When I was a child, my home, usually humming with debate, argument and laughter, would be transformed by this time into a solemn sanctuary marked by prayerful memory and theatrical displays of self-abnegation. Cheryl Pearl Sucher: Life Is Prayer During The Days Of Awe
In spleenful moments, it seems to me that the most depraved of city-dwellers has flashes of enthusiasm and self-abnegation never experienced by this shifty, retrogressive and ungenerous brood, which lives like the beasts of the field and has learnt all too much of their logic. Old Calabria
Still, some basic reporting can be done (and I think I can say without self-flattery or self-abnegation that I am not a conduit of choice for national-security leaking).
The sticking point in faith for me was abnegation.
Raw eggs being the only foodstuff she would consume while suffering the throes of religious abnegation.
The whole book is an exercise in self-love, disguised as an exercise in self-abnegation.
Will the discursive spaces within the left be divided into radical, semi-radical, not-so radical, etc. depending on abnegation of one's own particularism?
It is part of the abnegation of learning and the senseless worship of youth that now distort our values.
And this other fellow," says he, when I had done, "this fellow that sang -- d'ye know if his name chanced to be Mings -- Abnegation Mings, comrade? Black Bartlemy's Treasure
The Church could become the Church, in his view, only if it, too, made the self-referential gesture of abnegation.
Sin is the estrangement between God and humans instigated by human defiance or abnegation.
And this isn't always the easiest thing because a great deal of self-discipline and even self-abnegation is called for. New Directions in Foreign Policy
These acted as a justification both for abnegation by government and for the informal and non-legal manner in which the Bank has purported to police bank behaviour.
It seems to a bemused outsider at times as if the country must have its own cultural variant of masochistic puritanism, a collective desire for the penitential abnegation of prosperity and all its works.
As many Catholics and Anglicans take a trip to church to receive their ashes as a sign of repentance, a growing number of other Christian faiths reject the 40-day season of abnegation and fasting in favour of year-round righteousness.
In a fanciful mood, one might imagine a tenth circle of the Inferno, wherein those stern grey arches should loftily rise, in blind and endless sequence, limbing an abode of horror, a place of punishment for those, empty-hearted, who had lived without colour and sunshine, in voluntary abnegation, caring only for gain and success. The Daughters of Danaus
In subsequent speeches, as well as in an advice column he began writing for Ebony in 1957 and in a book he published the following year, King endorsed Christian self-abnegation as a means to attain “first-class citizenship.” A Renegade History of the United States
It is a film that valorizes the abnegation of moral responsibility, and the poise and precision of its craft draws us into a willing suspension of our instinctive sense of what is life-affirming and good.
Many critics, theorists, and philosophers have phlegmatically resigned themselves to this space of abnegation.
However – does gentleness inevitably entail self-abnegation? Not Ugly Betty « Tales from the Reading Room
Thus, they describe a path to international cooperation that does not require assumptions of altruism or self-abnegation on the part of individual states.
Silence is receptive, an abnegation of human effort. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, it surely refers to a state of total stillness and even abnegation, an ideal that religious adepts of all disciplines have long aspired to.
At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity.
I believe that equality of rights would abate the exaggerated self-abnegation which is the present artificial ideal of feminine character, and that a good woman would not be more self-sacrificing than the best man: but on the other hand, men would be much more unselfish and self-sacrificing than at present, because they would no longer be taught to worship their own will as such a grand thing that it is actually the law for another rational being. The Subjection of Women
If any one had maintained against Voltaire that the aspirations after a future life, the longing for some token that the Deity watches over his creatures and is moved by a tender solicitude for them, and the other spiritual desires alleged to be instinctive in men, constitute as trustworthy and firm a guide to truth as the logical reason, we may be sure that he would have forgiven what he must have considered an enervating abnegation of intelligence, for the sake of the humane, if not very actively improving, course of life to which this kind of pietism is wont to lead. Voltaire
And yet, though indeed there be little relation between our real self and the other — because of their homonymy and their common body, the abnegation which makes us sacrifice easier duties, pleasures even, seems to others egoism. Time Regained
The unhappy habit of self-abnegation seems to be unbreakable.
Even if this is done, it is clear that to introduce the child of another woman into the home is demanding a much greater self-abnegation from the wife than is demanded from the husband in the situation we have just considered. Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
While Alice's suicide may be seen as an act of emotional weakness or an act of familial abnegation, it is not.
There is both a politics and a delight in this, and both are contingent on abnegation.
Submission to authority, self-abnegation and conformism had led the Japanese to disaster.
Rather, Gandhi's environmentalism had its roots in a deep antipathy to urban civilization and a belief in self-sufficiency, in self-abnegation and denial rather than wasteful consumption.
But again, abnegation came with rich rewards. Times, Sunday Times
In advocating nonviolence, King asked African Americans to “present our very bodies” as living sacrifices to attain citizenship and respectability, and offered himself as a model of self-abnegation. A Renegade History of the United States
This has nothing whatsoever to do with submission or with abnegation.
-- Tell me, Heaven! where now is justice when the holiest gift, when genius and its immortality, come not as a reward for fervent love, for abnegation, prayer and dogged labor -- but light its radiance in the head of folly, of idle wantonness? 2009 May 08 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
Christianity is supposed to demand self-abnegation, subjugation to the common good. Times, Sunday Times
Denial (also called abnegation) is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. Observing German(s)...
They have no sympathies with the saints and heroes who have been great through self-abnegation, for such lives are a constant reproach to their own sybaritical tendencies. The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
This may be called the abnegation theory, and its origin may be fairly explained by considering it as derived from the original gift theory. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744
In choosing a starets you renounce your own will and surrender it to him in perfect submission, absolute self-abnegation. ' The Black Sheep of Pokrovskoe
The balance between self-abnegation and violent self-assertion, between masochism and sadism, between empowerment and domination is highly precarious in this relationship.
On the whole, beguilement by a teenage bad boy, however courtly his manner, doesn't lead to eternal love; nor is self-abnegation a reliable route to bliss. Twilight: the franchise that ate feminism
ESC research presents a possibility for cure that if ignored or deliberately shelved would be the singularly greatest indicium of an abnegation of human rights and an abjuring of the true meaning of a right to life. Lionel: Let's Enact "Tony's Law" -- a Federally-Backed, Full-Court Press Againt Disease Through Embryonic Stem Cell Research
The same holds for those particular settings where abnegation and impersonality are required.
He seemed to conjure up contradictory feelings of self-abnegation and self-righteousness, of the need for charity and the compulsion to talk about one's personal sense of sacrifice.
The unhappy habit of self-abnegation seems to be unbreakable.
By then, however, American simplicity entailed the mass consumption of mass-produced commodities, not the virtuous self-abnegation of the Revolutionary generation.
However, the industry's subsequent abnegation of customer care really gets Davies' blood boiling.
What is more surprising, and indeed an abnegation of the responsibilities of leadership, is when politicians - local and national - are prepared to ignore the evidence and meekly go along with the unreasonable demands of the industry.
This form of self-abnegation and inability to assert oneself embarrasses the boys and leads them to react violently against those whom they perceive are treating them as second-class citizens.
This abnegation would help explain his supposed artistic decline.
Not the dramatic abnegation indicated by the black dress, but the quiet harmony of a life atune. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and this infectious virtue is avoided. Les Miserables
Kiarostami's strict two-camera-position approach is a very striking abnegation of the director's normal freedoms.
He has asked in our act of faith an abnegation analogous to that of his Son.

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