He made one-man reenactments of master-slave relationships, practicing abject whining as an extreme sport.
"Pathetic" is a tale of "abject self-pity in the face of collapsed relationship".
They can point to the Republicans' close relationships with big oil and to the abject failure of the Bush administration to take the energy challenges even semi-seriously until far too late in the day.
Last year Adam Granduciel, the founder, songwriter and frontman of the War on Drugs, emerged from abject circumstances – tour burnout, the collapse of a long-term relationship – with a triumphant album.
You can feel the pang of rejection and abject misery in powerful, convulsing waves, so clinging onto the memory of a relationship is helpful.
While there was no abject grovelling to Robert Tchenguiz – as there had been to his brother – the termination of inquiries into his relationship with Kaupthing mark the end of the SFO's biggest investigation in a decade.
Colin, far from being an abject widower, turns out to be a cheerful twerp who sees himself as having experienced the "perfect" relationship with his recently drowned fiancee, Carol.
But even among the flying insults and the abject intolerance on display, I can still see one good outcome: France is finally discovering that gay couples have relationships that are very much the same as those of heterosexual people.
That was abject cowardice".
Of all the abject illusions!
