As shock and awe in face of the abject showing gave way to anger, smashing up things seemed like a better option than following the lead of the team and simply do nothing.
Arcangel finds an abject beauty in the way that modern technology is doomed to obsolescence.
If the animals are going to be killed, at least don't put them into abject terror on their way.
So many of the artists here cry out to be dealt with in their own full-on, ecstatic, dirty, smelly, sexy, theatrical, orgiastic, atavistic, abject and even frightening ways.
That Southern evangelist is technically still alive, but since he was caught patronizing a prostitute in 1987 and then weeping his way through an abject apology, some believers lost faith in him and many others viewed him as a joke.
In the former Soviet Union, where H.I.V. is being spread through heterosexual sex, Mr. Clinton said, "the extent to which young girls are still engaging in dangerous behavior either because they are constrained to it or think it is their only way out of abject poverty in that part of the world is chilling".
During these difficult times for Pakistan denial is often a handy way of cloaking abject disappointment, humiliation and a sense of betrayal in so many facets of life, including cricket.
It's obviously just a spoof on Shia LaBeouf's motivational video from a few days ago, but I can still hope that this is the start of a new phase of Franco's career where he reinvents himself as a child-rearing guru and leads seminars about how abject terror is the only way to teach a kid anything.
"There has been an abject failure there – the old ways don't work.
