This Ophelia, in turn, is an abject cast-off who is subsequently sent packing, along with Gertrude Clare Higginss) by a sudden and startlingly visceral roar from Hamlet originating from deep within a wounded self that clearly takes injustice more seriously than it does shirts.
The Bulgarian-French philosopher Julia Kristeva, influenced in part by the earlier texts of the rogue surrealist Georges Bataille, wrote about the "abject," a cast-off horror that one has to face (like a corpse, or an AIDS-racked body).
Kelley at his best had real edge, whether he was knocking up ludicrous bird boxes, working with a cast of abject soft toys, making horrible scatological drawings or painting a series of shemales which he called Naked Majas after Goya.
It's a grim story, but Bachmann leavens the dark goings-on with whimsy, assigning characters such memorable names as Mr. Lickerish and Lord Lillicrap and, like so many beloved stories for children, casting the adults as evil villains or abject idiots.
The current emergency has also cast a harsh spotlight on the state's abject failure to prepare for times of drought crisis, they say.
An abject slave to money, he would starve his servant until he barely cast a shadow.
Maybe it's Moira, casting a shadow of resistance across time and space as Offred's abject fear slowly calcifies into a refusal to give in.
In a uniformly excellent cast, Tim Mullen is hilariously funny as a theatre critic who is trying to promote the script of his abject play.
That was abject cowardice".
Of all the abject illusions!
This shows abject incompetence.
