Sentence examples for on the abject from inspiring English sources
Of course focusing on the abject midfield set up, tactical naivity and clear lack of organisation at the back would be far too introspective".
Ten days after the Spice Incident, having sniffed the oil with a frequency bordering on the abject, I spirited it into my luggage for my flight home.
His judgement on the abject manner in which his "scared" team – and this is unquestionably his team – gave up on the Champions League was brutal and all too true.
Hosted by the Opie and Anthony staff (minus Opie), they narrated the classic movie Back to the Future live on the air, riffing on the abject corruption of Mayor Goldie Wilson, the awkwardness of having your high school-age mother hit on you in the past (even though you're from the future and know she's your mother) and just how big a creep the Doc is.
The history of American documentary cinema is rife with well-intentioned filmmakers like Garbus who have trained their cameras on the abject, the neglected and the powerless.
Some critics of the Nepalese government's approach say it focused too much on a military solution and too little on addressing the abject poverty that has made Nepal fertile soil for guerrillas.
Responding to Mr Hammond in the Commons, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the Autumn Statement placed on record the "abject failure of the last six years".
In Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, the abject is described as neither inside nor outside, neither subject nor object, neither self nor other, troubling identity and order with the instability of boundaries, borders, and limits.
In other words, God judges the health of a nation based on how well the abject are doing.
Through the "general anti-avoidance rule" and a regular stream of smaller specific anti-avoidance announcements, such as this weekend's move against a national insurance dodge, Osborne will sustain the illusion that tax avoidance is being fought on all fronts, confident that his bamboozled audience will never notice the abject surrender on the most important one of all.
But a snapshot of the Jewish experience in Cuba should include for future travelers -- even on religious missions -- the abject poverty that this community, like all in Cuba, faces.
