Sentence examples for To be abject from inspiring English sources

Yet their performances away from India continue to be abject.

The film tantalisingly keeps us guessing about Danilov's motives – although one reason seems to be abject fear of this unforgiving authority figure.

The striking thing about Clinton's statement is that both of the operations he cited involved the long-distance use of cruise missiles and no risk to American lives, and both are now widely considered to be abject failures.

It is hoped that this paper, published, in 1989, in the Swiss-based journal European Neurology (Vol. 29, No. 6) may illuminate the phenomenon, often seen in Republican patients, whereby failed Bush policies are retained in policy-processing areas of the brain long after these policies have demonstrated themselves to be abject failures.

To do nothing would seem to be abject appeasement, undermining ROK credibility and encouraging the North to act even more recklessly in the future.

We are indebted to the twenty million Egyptians who came out on the streets, risked being shot in the chest and sacrificed thousands of dead and wounded so that Egyptians could cease to be abject subjects and become sovereign citizens able to decide the fate of their country.

She knew she would never be abject in his presence again.

Another of France's wildly prolific authors, Honoré de Balzac, felt that the most effective spur to productivity was abject poverty.

But this is hardly fresh curatorial territory; such work used to be called abject art.

You have to be completely abject, and not attempt to defend yourself or your behavior in any way".

You have to be completely abject, and not attempt to defend yourself or your behaviour in any way".