He's a lager-eater!" Damon does, of course, talk complete sense and abject nonsense in equal measure.
"Between 2002 and 2005, the project's $280 million budget ballooned to over $1 billion and was later described as a 'complete and abject failure'.
She's making a complete, utter, abject and undignified fool of herself.
And to complete the abject misery for City and manager Roberto Mancini, the volatile Mario Balotelli - fortunate to escape dismissal in the first half for a dreadful challenge on Alex Song - was then sent off for picking up a second yellow card for another needless foul on Bacary Saga.
As a young man, I even planned one day simply to hand him back the cash I stole, plus interest for good measure, and explain why, complete with abject apology.
It is the perfect excuse to avoid questions about poor performance, human-rights violations and abject failure.
Prisoners, terrified and abject, capering like monkeys.
Tales of injustice, psychological trauma, malnutrition, and abject poverty.
"We had moments of soaring triumph and abject failure".
