The phrase "abject figure" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is pitiful or miserable in appearance or behavior. Example: The beggar on the street corner was an abject figure, huddled in tattered clothes with a despondent expression on his face.
Threading through these unheimlich archetypes is a shocked, abject figure in shredded underpants.
It represents an abject figure that has to be excluded from the circle of us so to imagine a supposed pure integrity of our culture.
The most abject figure in the Red Sox' swoon was Carl Crawford, the talented outfielder Boston signed away from the Rays.
But if we can admire this abject figure's salvaged aplomb, we rarely get a visceral sense of the despair and the rage at injustice that make the character such a compelling one (1 45).
I recall the absolute shock I felt witnessing this lonely, abject figure".
I recall the absolute shock I felt witnessing this lonely, abject figure". Plagued by procedural snarls and an ever-changing rulebook, Omar's military commissions case dragged on for years.
Standing in front of decrepit buildings that tower over streets absent of cars, they cut abject figures.
Here is the female figure rendered abject and humiliated, a fact which is obscured by the brilliance of his design.
"The ubiquitous panhandler as a figure of abject poverty amidst all this tremendous wealth is one example," he says.
The Liberal Democrats health spokesman, Norman Lamb, said he was "horrified" by the figures, which he claimed exposed the government's abject failure to tackle mental health injustices.
Only 58,400 people in Russia lived on less than $1.90 per day as of 2012, the World Bank's most recent year for Russian figures on abject poverty.
