Sentence examples for more abject than from inspiring English sources
In sum, failures do not come any more abject than Iraq, nor catastrophes any more pure.
Each plotter, says Besfort, turned out to be more abject than the last: The conspirators' letters from prison became more and more ingratiating.
They would have struggled to have been more abject than they were in 2006 and 2008, matches again in which the trylines remained uncrossed, but at least now they are trying to play rather than just being trying.
A clip from the show released by Channel 4 earlier this year was received with slightly more abject horror than the standard sitcom teaser, mainly in response to a scene in which one of the characters wakes up in bed next to a small child.
In the end, of course, there is more abject speculation going on than has ever been the case in a prospective administration since perhaps FDR's first term.
Alastair Cook may have played a more abject shot in his Test career than the one that resulted in his first-innings dismissal on Friday, but it is hard to think of one off-hand.
New York Society was very gaudy and glittering during the ten years that followed the Civil War, and the fashionable lady of the less conservative element was an even more abject slave to the beauty parlor and the cosmetic shop than is her modern prototype.
The more abject the songs, like "Ghost in This House," the more riveting she was.
And fleetingly it was not clear who was more abject here - Gladys or the lawyer paid to hector her".
Early in the guests' captivity, when their inability to leave seems more absurd than abject, waltz rhythms proliferate, variously recalling classic Johann Strauss, the boozy dances of "Der Rosenkavalier," and the deconstructed waltzes of Ravel and Stravinsky.
The dread in these two films is heightened not just by the cliff-hanger twists of the scripts, but by Ms. Wood's ability to portray emotions more complicated than abject fear; she lets you see the psychological scar tissue forming around her wounds.
