Sentence examples for up abject from inspiring English sources

When he wasn't busy dreaming up abject sinners and vengeful devils, Bosch was performing mundane tasks like designing stained-glass windows, and, though he was one of the first painters in the Low Countries to sign his work, he probably considered himself more of an artisan than an artist.

He grew up in abject poverty in New Orleans and found himself either a witness to or in the middle of cuttings and shootings.

He is seen curled up in abject misery on the floor next to bins after being taken out by world champion Kazakh Yeldos Smetov.

Growing up in abject poverty, this self taught artist initially designed signboards, hoardings, film posters and book covers before moving on to fine art and sculpture.

Mr. Elmore, who grew up in abject poverty as the 8th of 11 children born to a tenant farmer's daughter, was arrested 36 hours after the body of 76-year-old Dorothy Ely Edwards was found in her bedroom closet.

As a child who grew up in abject poverty, I came to the Republican Party because, as one who suffered from the big government Great Society of the late 1960s, I felt less government and more personal responsibility were the answers to poverty.

I interviewed the Inferno Coral for Rolling Stone, on the same night that two of the gang's members would throw a toilet off the top deck of the Arruda, killing a rival fan below, and I profiled the immortal Flavio Caça-Rato, or Flavio The Rat Hunter, a striker who had grown up amidst abject poverty and violence not far from the Arruda, for the Observer.

Growing up in abject poverty in the refugee quarters of Kathmandu, Choying had a troubled childhood.

One of eight children, Farr grew up in abject poverty, even by the austere standards of Edwardian industrial Wales.

As a child, I grew up in abject poverty and was homeless a number of times.

James Brown grew up in abject poverty, mostly raised by an auntie who ran a Georgian Flop House.