Sentence examples for not as abject from inspiring English sources

She was born in Mississippi in 1942, and her childhood was not as abject as she suggested.

Luckily, from a voter's point of view, this is not as abject a U-turn as it seems.

And except for the last track, "Crypt of Drugula" — nine instrumental minutes with a two-chord vamp in the background and stormy rumblings up front — it's not as abject and feral, or nearly as exciting, as "Dopethrone," from 2000, this band's high-water mark.

Plenty of touring sides have endured these in Australia, but even Sri Lanka's thrashing in Melbourne on their last trip didn't have a day quite as abject as Australia's second here: eight wickets before lunch, two sessions of being merrily carted, then back to lose three more wickets in six overs by stumps.

But movie execs were never as abject as empty-souled, smooth-suited studio apparatchik Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins).

For a minute I felt that things couldn't be so terrible, that the unit couldn't be as abject a destination as I conceived it to be if this woman had deigned to throw her lot in with the rest of us.

So as a culture we have answered that as long as we're not committing abject criminal acts, we have the fundamental right to "own," "possess," and "control" ourselves.

The Conservatives seem to view anyone not in abject poverty wanting to live in social housing as obscene.

Religion as gimp, as abject subject?

Dinner would be fun, not an abject terror.

This is hard to classify as abject poverty.