Sentence examples similar to Abject creature from inspiring English sources

Tribal loyalties When Charles Darwin encountered the tribal people of Terra del Fuego he called them "the most abject and miserable creatures I have anywhere beheld" and as existing "in a lower state of improvement than in any part of the world".

For all the emphasis on "being in love" and "sobbing uncontrollably" and other lamentations of this "abject, unfruitful creature", there's a lot of steady common sense too, if only retrospectively: "I'd spent a great deal of my life after childhood being an adolescent; a stage that most people think occupies a finite number of years".

Though calling herself, in abject humility, "the creature," Kempe knew, and has effectively transmitted the proof, that she was a remarkable person.

Hürriyet, Turkey's largest newspaper, called Pamuk an 'abject creature'.

Abject suffering, perhaps.

Abject capitulation or tactical retreat?

Abject fear supersedes their monetary losses.

Their surviving 459 letters, some surprisingly long (Bishop might elaborate hers over weeks, at times swearing she had written Lowell in her imagination), give us the closest view of these wounded creatures — his muscular, bull-in-a-china-shop intellect; her pained shyness and abject modesty, and a gaze like the gleam off a knife.

That was abject cowardice".

Of all the abject illusions!

This shows abject incompetence.