Sentence examples for abject luck from inspiring English sources

2. The abject luck of a winning argument, and a failure to target the top.

The drawings are rendered in a down-on-its-luck, cheerfully abject cartoon style that is reminiscent of artists like William Wegman, Raymond Pettibon and Sue Williams; but it has a voice of its own.

The story of Lily's expulsion from the inner circle and her descent through failed jobs into abject poverty is a relentlessly tragic tale of bad luck, cruelty and missed opportunity.

And they have found fewer people in abject destitution, but a great many more crowding the hard-luck ranks of the near poor, who do not qualify for many benefit programs and lose income to taxes, child care and medical costs.

With the abject failure of my first Broadway play, "The Man Who Had All the Luck," I resolved never to write another play but to give novelistic form this time to the assault, figurative and sometimes literal, that was coming at me from the streets.

That was abject cowardice".

Of all the abject illusions!

Tyson wept, abject and philosophical.

I was an abject jerk.

Breakfast was abject.

What an abject shower.