"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.
War, for Hermans, is simply an intensification of the abject human condition.
She has become one of the abject castaways of the musical's title, a wretched of the earth.
He understood the power of the abject, the seriousness of the absurd.
Overrated Because: Following the Mike Kelley blueprint of presenting the abject as something collectible for rich folk has been the job of 1 in 5 art grad students for the past 25 years; White's efforts to "creep you out, dude" seem to also hope there is a screenplay adaptation or reality show to be optioned.
In this engrossing, well-written insider's account of his time as the CIA station chief in Pakistan and later as a senior bureaucrat at its Langley headquarters, he was drawn, he says, to a career that offered the possibility of high achievement and, because of the risk, some abject failure.
Of all the abject illusions!
In a few minutes, Obama would arrive in Colorado for a campaign stop, followed by another in Nevada — two critical states that neither of the previous two Democratic nominees, Al Gore and John Kerry, came all that close to winning, largely because of their abject failure to connect with white men, especially lower- and middle-class men in rural and exurban counties.
The tiles near the beginning of the story capture the abject devotion of early love.
