Sentence examples for abject thing from inspiring English sources

As for the rape scene, its horror is focused not on the act of penetration but on the preceding struggle, during which Blanche is stripped, manhandled and degraded by Stanley to become an abject thing.

The really abject thing about this display of solidarity between the two men is that it promotes the opposite feelings in onlookers to the feelings it presumably promotes in the pair of actors.

"Communities are devastated because of this abject thing called the drug war.

"Communities are devastated because of this abject thing called the drug war," he told The Huffington Post.

The painter Salvator Rosa was particularly savage in his comments about the later followers of the style, whom he criticized for painting "baggy pants, beggars in rags, and abject filthy things".

All those fucking ghouls eating the candy don't give a flying fuck about the work, or the politics, or the packages of sweets making their way throughout the five boroughs in a subversion of socioeconomic borders normally policed by rent prices, gentrification, and all things abject.

His abject obsession with all things related to Fusun escalates, as each object enables him to relive their moments together and brings temporary relief from the torture of her loss.

People are beginning to move in to the area, and I'm sure it's a nice enough place, if you live in abject terror of all the things that make cities worthwhile.

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Shih's "10 Things I Hate About You: San Francisco Edition," was widely criticized for, among other things, perpetuating Silicon Valley's abject misogyny and callousness toward the homeless.

All social norms were absent from this household that suffered abject poverty and reminded me of things I had only read about in history books.

After the "wait, what?" moment, I experienced abject horror, optimistic enthusiasm, and a couple things in between.