How To Use self-abnegation In A Sentence
- Christianity is supposed to demand self-abnegation, subjugation to the common good. Times, Sunday Times
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
