How To Use Self-abnegation In A Sentence
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Christianity is supposed to demand self-abnegation, subjugation to the common good.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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However – does gentleness inevitably entail self-abnegation?
Not Ugly Betty « Tales from the Reading Room
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Thus, they describe a path to international cooperation that does not require assumptions of altruism or self-abnegation on the part of individual states.
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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
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The unhappy habit of self-abnegation seems to be unbreakable.
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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
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Submission to authority, self-abnegation and conformism had led the Japanese to disaster.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The balance between self-abnegation and violent self-assertion, between masochism and sadism, between empowerment and domination is highly precarious in this relationship.
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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
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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.
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The unhappy habit of self-abnegation seems to be unbreakable.
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By then, however, American simplicity entailed the mass consumption of mass-produced commodities, not the virtuous self-abnegation of the Revolutionary generation.
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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.
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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
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Women responded especially strongly to this soulful portrait of grief, self-abnegation and recovery.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Selflessness also lies at the core of what is essential in a general, for both moral and physical courage derive from self-abnegation.
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Shulamith Firestone deems motherhood “a condition of terminal psychological and social decay, total self-abnegation and physical deterioration.”
On Being a Bad Mother
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Basically, after years of self-abnegation, Britain now has an old fashioned tax-and-spend government.
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This self-abnegation from letters of the 1970s should be taken as sincere.
The Times Literary Supplement
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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.
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Some religious traditions indeed predicate apocalyptic hope on a lifetime of self-abnegation and the renunciation of all individual markers of significance and distinction.
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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
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Obeying the guru required discipline and self-abnegation, an exercise that was always beneficial to the spiritual aspirant.
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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
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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
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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).
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The whole book is an exercise in self-love, disguised as an exercise in self-abnegation.
