Trojans turned in an abject performance to crash to their heaviest defeat in over four years. |
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He cried out again, a less intelligible scream, and doubled up with wave after abject wave of nauseating pain. |
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But given the abject poverty Miller grew up in, it's hard to fault him for his extravagances. |
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The old USSR was run by men who did not see the abject and instantaneous murder of civilians as a reason to celebrate. |
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There was such a look of abject pain contorting her delicate features that he suddenly felt like an absolute scoundrel. |
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In the days following Giblets's glorious conquest of popedom many have wailed in ceaseless abject horror. |
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But until relatively recent times, anybody who worked in farming, except landlords, were dirt poor and worked in abject poverty. |
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The piece was an abject failure if it was intended to be a serious comparison of the feature film and novel. |
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Bolivia is a country rich in resources, yet its majority Indian population is mired in unemployment and abject poverty. |
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He promptly returns it to Paul Overton, whose abject cross from the right ends up in Row Z of the stand on the other side of the pitch. |
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The abject tyranny of political correctness murderously asphyxiates us with sugary pleasantries and tedious nomenclature. |
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Instead, given their abject beginning to the season, they fetched up in Milan in an anxious state looking only for a performance. |
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Its report, in the spring, is likely to demand radical change in relations between the rich and poor world if abject poverty is to be vanquished. |
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Grant did not affect the mock shock of someone who has experienced abject poverty first-hand for the first time on any of her trips. |
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Yet we know that even in such utterly abject circumstances, these people were not simply passive victims. |
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However with no middle class, the vast bulk of its people are living in abject and unsustainable poverty. |
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The abject misery, the clearest glimpse of absolute evil, is almost impossible to describe. |
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He looked about at all the imitations of himself, like a ring of mirrors each showing California in a state of abject want. |
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I mean, when I think of Cambodia in the 1970s, I think abject misery, suffering and genocide on a Stalin-like scale. |
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The setting is one of abject poverty and misery, yet the upbeat caption tells us that even victims of disaster need a good shoeshine. |
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Behind the colourless doors of these homes were people who still live in the misery of abject poverty. |
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People are having fun in this town, it's not all poverty and abject misery. |
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A lot has been written about the abject state of health in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world. |
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He said that HIV does cause AIDS but there are also other causes such as abject social conditions. |
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Indeed, they were intended to insult and humiliate with reference to such an abject condition. |
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Most live in conditions so abject that there is little to distinguish them from the most wretched chattel slaves of the past. |
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He was compelled to comment on the causes of the tragedy and the abject conditions that prevailed on the reservation. |
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Few will dispute that a person in abject condition suffers a profound affront to his sense of dignity and intrinsic worth. |
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Are parallels to the anarchic sensibilities of our own abject artists valid? |
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Isn't humiliation on your own TV network, followed by an abject apology, enough? |
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I returned from Siberia to a mountain of furious letters to which I could only write abject apologies. |
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On the few occasions I was driven to use such chastisement, it felt like an abject admission of parental failure. |
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That would do a whole lot more for civilised and democratic behaviour than abject capitulation to these self-evident hypocrites. |
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This enhances our shock when the abject figure of Winston is finally revealed, stripped of all humanity. |
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Apologies, official, abject, routinely demanded, and formally offered, are considered not just a right but a requirement. |
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The regime controlled every aspect of life and reduced everyone to the level of abject obedience through terror. |
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My behaviour, when I am conducting perfectly legitimate activity such as registering an insurance claim, is one of abject apology. |
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The thrust of both books is his failure to protect the national interests of Britain and his abject subservience to the United States. |
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Since they are abject human beings, he implies, he does not have to engage them at that level. |
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Four abject stereotypes with guns chase him down corridors, spraying bullets and whooping with redneck glee. |
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To turn the state over to the incestuous nepotism and cronyism of Dad and Dave shire councils would be an abject failure. |
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The abject disappointment of not being able to scare the neighbors with early morning firecrackers would put a damper on our spirits. |
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The abject failure to accept that fact only makes the manager's job even harder. |
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For whatever reason, my own abject lack of cookery experience was enlisted to help with the preparation of a monster spaghetti bolognese. |
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Rendered with harsh black lines in Pierson's characteristic expressionist style, the figure bows its head in abject repose. |
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Existentialism is a 20th century philosophy that asserts the fundamental meaninglessness of life and our abject aloneness. |
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There are quality issues with the film itself, such as pronounced grain in interior scenes and abject shadow detail. |
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Another problem was that she was unwilling to submit to her dictates or prostrate herself in abject submission. |
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He was pained by the abject poverty and the trouble women had to undergo to fetch water for the families. |
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One of the great tzaddikim lived in abject poverty, yet always had a happy disposition. |
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He and his family lived in abject poverty until a lucky break enabled him to make a comeback. |
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The emotional couplet thus produced combines furious glee and abject melancholy, helpless vulnerability and unfocused rage. |
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The transport system, already chaotic at best, was flung into abject confusion. |
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The bicentennial of the country's independence was celebrated amid political chaos and abject poverty. |
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Some 130 million people have been removed from abject poverty but their living condition remains miserable. |
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L knows full well that the abject takes on a very different meaning when it collides with our stereotypes of the black underclass. |
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For much of the past two centuries, the Chumash of Santa Ynez lived in anonymity and abject poverty. |
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She undoubtedly lost consciousness and when she came round, she was in a state of abject terror and hysteria. |
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He seems unable to mate subject and verb number, use apostrophes or adverbs rationally, or spot abject incoherence in his own writing. |
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But I can't fathom anyone reading stories like this and not feeling the sting and burn of utter, abject shame. |
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In our first forays into online Call of Duty we were abject newbs, innocent babes thrown into the deep end without our favorite swimmies. |
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Never a truer word as, after a dog of a first half, the second period ran rampant on the back of abject defending. |
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Lack of access to these essentials is generally referred to as living in extreme or abject poverty. |
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I won't attempt a plot synopsis, as every such attempt is doomed to abject failure. |
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It is behaviour of such abject venality as to be almost beneath contempt. |
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After all, there are only two ways to divert the attention of the international community from the more pressing and immediate problems of abject hunger and poverty. |
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I start this piece with the admission that I have been an abject failure. |
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The abject misery and utter abandon is positively indescribable. |
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To correct spiritual lapses and moral decline of such nations, Allah raises a messenger from among the poor and the abject to guide and to warn the great and the powerful. |
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The one thing I know I could describe is the rollercoaster ride that your feelings experience, from abject dejection at diagnosis to jubilation at a positive blood count. |
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With the game being a drudgery of spilled balls, abject kicking and woeful execution of the few scoring opportunities that were created the mind wandered. |
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My previously sunny and happy demeanour changed to one of abject horror. |
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I compose abject apologies in my head and fill out the registration form. |
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They might, out of abject fear and loneliness, dream away the hours on observation post, delighting, as Cacciato does, in a stick of Black Jack gum. |
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However, the only thing he can offer this bobby socks babe is abject poverty, since his pop is a boozehound with a weak employment record and even frailer liver. |
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The free market economy did not alleviate the abject misery of the poor. |
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Surely no financial inducement can be worth such abject loss of dignity. |
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But in any narrative, if the protagonist is going to be at the center of a sea of abject joy and triumph, someone has to lose. |
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The girls helped their mothers prepare a simple meal as the men smoked outside and reflected on their abject state. |
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No, this brief delay must be a sign that the implementation of the Affordable Care Act is destined to result in abject failure. |
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Featuring headache-inducing black-and-red graphics, the Virtual Boy was an abject failure. |
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Their president abased himself with ritual abject apologies. |
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The interest you see in London with dirt, the abject, and those uncontrollable interstitial spaces is a little mark of resistance against that process. |
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The English law of contract is not subject to any such abject paternalism. |
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To me, this paints a picture of a deeply insecure woman who had long since waved goodbye to the verge of paranoia and blundered into the chasm of abject delusion. |
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I'm usually a sucker for full-on bad taste, but this was just so abject. |
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The fact that he is willing to stoop to this sort of outright revisionism in order to make his point demonstrates the abject lack of substance to his arguments. |
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This was one of the most abject stuffings in the history of Scottish rugby, with Glasgow losing out on power, pace and skill, as well as almost every phase. |
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She saw firsthand the abject conditions of the working people there. |
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The pittance paid out in compensation for retrenchment has provided barely a few months subsistence, with former employees being thrown into abject poverty. |
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Many boards are still overpaying themselves for abject failure. |
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But he was insisting that his recent abject flip-flop had not made him look like complete idiots in the eyes of the international legal community. |
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His new book, despite some sensible and perceptive parts, eventually collapses into abject apology for modern capitalism in general and the United States in particular. |
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And now here I was, sitting next to the girl who had petrified me for most of my school years, and watching how abject misery had smudged her beauty. |
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In a city boasting the lowest per capita income in Georgia, where one in three children live in abject poverty, pawnbrokers are as numerous as traffic lights. |
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One never knows why these people are thrown into a society where there is no development and these people are living in horrendous conditions of abject poverty. |
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It is about the sordid deeds people's abject ambitions ultimately lead to. |
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Each year at harvest, the prince hosts a feast for the noblemen of the countryside, while the peasants who farm his land grovel in abject poverty. |
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A small exploitative class of intermediaries benefited enormously from the neocolonial relationship, but the masses were sunk in abject poverty and misery. |
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He cannot let his party drift into abject irrelevance, a place full of tubthumping blowhards who'd rather make noise than policy. |
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In 1189, Richard openly joined forces with Philip to drive Henry into abject submission. |
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Lowly Scunthorpe are the visitors tomorrow with the Iron one place off the foot of the table and in abject form under manager Ian Baraclough. |
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Though most Zairians live in abject poverty, their country is mineral-rich. |
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So thick bestrown abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. |
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What does she say about Perez's vision of a gayless utopia? The one-line chapter pitting gays with the abject mother of macho dismissal and scorn? |
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