Trojans turned in an abject performance to crash to their heaviest defeat in over four years.
He cried out again, a less intelligible scream, and doubled up with wave after abject wave of nauseating pain.
But given the abject poverty Miller grew up in, it's hard to fault him for his extravagances.
The old USSR was run by men who did not see the abject and instantaneous murder of civilians as a reason to celebrate.
There was such a look of abject pain contorting her delicate features that he suddenly felt like an absolute scoundrel.
In the days following Giblets's glorious conquest of popedom many have wailed in ceaseless abject horror.
But until relatively recent times, anybody who worked in farming, except landlords, were dirt poor and worked in abject poverty.
The piece was an abject failure if it was intended to be a serious comparison of the feature film and novel.
Bolivia is a country rich in resources, yet its majority Indian population is mired in unemployment and abject poverty.
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.
The abject tyranny of political correctness murderously asphyxiates us with sugary pleasantries and tedious nomenclature.
Instead, given their abject beginning to the season, they fetched up in Milan in an anxious state looking only for a performance.
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.
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.
Yet we know that even in such utterly abject circumstances, these people were not simply passive victims.
However with no middle class, the vast bulk of its people are living in abject and unsustainable poverty.
The abject misery, the clearest glimpse of absolute evil, is almost impossible to describe.
He looked about at all the imitations of himself, like a ring of mirrors each showing California in a state of abject want.
I mean, when I think of Cambodia in the 1970s, I think abject misery, suffering and genocide on a Stalin-like scale.
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.
People are having fun in this town, it's not all poverty and abject misery.
A lot has been written about the abject state of health in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world.
He said that HIV does cause AIDS but there are also other causes such as abject social conditions.
Indeed, they were intended to insult and humiliate with reference to such an abject condition.
Most live in conditions so abject that there is little to distinguish them from the most wretched chattel slaves of the past.
He was compelled to comment on the causes of the tragedy and the abject conditions that prevailed on the reservation.
Few will dispute that a person in abject condition suffers a profound affront to his sense of dignity and intrinsic worth.
Are parallels to the anarchic sensibilities of our own abject artists valid?
Isn't humiliation on your own TV network, followed by an abject apology, enough?
I returned from Siberia to a mountain of furious letters to which I could only write abject apologies.
On the few occasions I was driven to use such chastisement, it felt like an abject admission of parental failure.
That would do a whole lot more for civilised and democratic behaviour than abject capitulation to these self-evident hypocrites.
This enhances our shock when the abject figure of Winston is finally revealed, stripped of all humanity.
Apologies, official, abject, routinely demanded, and formally offered, are considered not just a right but a requirement.
The regime controlled every aspect of life and reduced everyone to the level of abject obedience through terror.
My behaviour, when I am conducting perfectly legitimate activity such as registering an insurance claim, is one of abject apology.
The thrust of both books is his failure to protect the national interests of Britain and his abject subservience to the United States.
Since they are abject human beings, he implies, he does not have to engage them at that level.
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.
The abject disappointment of not being able to scare the neighbors with early morning firecrackers would put a damper on our spirits.
The abject failure to accept that fact only makes the manager's job even harder.
For whatever reason, my own abject lack of cookery experience was enlisted to help with the preparation of a monster spaghetti bolognese.
Rendered with harsh black lines in Pierson's characteristic expressionist style, the figure bows its head in abject repose.
Existentialism is a 20th century philosophy that asserts the fundamental meaninglessness of life and our abject aloneness.
There are quality issues with the film itself, such as pronounced grain in interior scenes and abject shadow detail.
Another problem was that she was unwilling to submit to her dictates or prostrate herself in abject submission.
He was pained by the abject poverty and the trouble women had to undergo to fetch water for the families.
One of the great tzaddikim lived in abject poverty, yet always had a happy disposition.
He and his family lived in abject poverty until a lucky break enabled him to make a comeback.
The emotional couplet thus produced combines furious glee and abject melancholy, helpless vulnerability and unfocused rage.
The transport system, already chaotic at best, was flung into abject confusion.
The bicentennial of the country's independence was celebrated amid political chaos and abject poverty.
Some 130 million people have been removed from abject poverty but their living condition remains miserable.
L knows full well that the abject takes on a very different meaning when it collides with our stereotypes of the black underclass.
For much of the past two centuries, the Chumash of Santa Ynez lived in anonymity and abject poverty.
She undoubtedly lost consciousness and when she came round, she was in a state of abject terror and hysteria.
He seems unable to mate subject and verb number, use apostrophes or adverbs rationally, or spot abject incoherence in his own writing.
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.
Never a truer word as, after a dog of a first half, the second period ran rampant on the back of abject defending.
Lack of access to these essentials is generally referred to as living in extreme or abject poverty.
I won't attempt a plot synopsis, as every such attempt is doomed to abject failure.
It is behaviour of such abject venality as to be almost beneath contempt.
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.
I start this piece with the admission that I have been an abject failure.
The abject misery and utter abandon is positively indescribable.
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.
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.
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.
My previously sunny and happy demeanour changed to one of abject horror.
I compose abject apologies in my head and fill out the registration form.
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.
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.
The free market economy did not alleviate the abject misery of the poor.
Surely no financial inducement can be worth such abject loss of dignity.
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.
The girls helped their mothers prepare a simple meal as the men smoked outside and reflected on their abject state.
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.
Their president abased himself with ritual abject apologies.
The interest you see in London with dirt, the abject, and those uncontrollable interstitial spaces is a little mark of resistance against that process.
The English law of contract is not subject to any such abject paternalism.
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.
I'm usually a sucker for full-on bad taste, but this was just so abject.
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.
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.
She saw firsthand the abject conditions of the working people there.
The pittance paid out in compensation for retrenchment has provided barely a few months subsistence, with former employees being thrown into abject poverty.
Many boards are still overpaying themselves for abject failure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It is about the sordid deeds people's abject ambitions ultimately lead to.
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.
A small exploitative class of intermediaries benefited enormously from the neocolonial relationship, but the masses were sunk in abject poverty and misery.
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.
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.
Though most Zairians live in abject poverty, their country is mineral-rich.
So thick bestrown abject and lost lay these, covering the flood.
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?

Just as abject as was his sudden fear, so triumphant was his reassertion of himself.
The details of the illustration, which are all duly elucidated in the explanation, are those of abject and irredeemable ruin.
I stand corrected, murmured Louise, in what was meant to be an abject voice.
Here was Naples deserted by the thousands of foreigners whom a few days of Vesuvian bellowings had frightened into abject panic.
Instead of this, as far as I remember, that abject Hellenist says nothing at all.
The lowland Indian never falls into the abject condition of his Quechua brother on the plateau.
But tzaritza had crawled to Peggy's feet and was literally grovelling there in abject misery.
Curley stood with an expression of wooden-headed, abject innocence on his big, broad face, and looked straight in front of him.
Altars must be strown with broken minds, and incense rise amid abject aspirations.
And the nines would become their hopeless and abject slaves.
Then, in a little, he sagged forward, and his eyes went dull and abject.
Tell your master, Nelly, that I never, in all my life, met with such an abject thing as she is.
Neither consideration would have checked her in one of her ungovernable moods, but now she was in an abject one.
He bowed his head in a misery so abject that Mata forbore to jibe.
It was abject and degrading, like a falling-out among thieves.
In half an hour I was her abject slave, and proud in my serfdom.
All that their most abject compliances could obtain from him was a toleration of the exercise of their laws.
It is, in fact, so mean and abject as almost to overpass belief.
Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object.
Since their meeting the young man had been her abject cavalier.
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Better live, to write your own tale than be the abject one to another.
To all outward seeming, nerveless, emotionless, an abject creature.
Inwardly he was reduced to an abject pulp by these chance words.
They seemed to take no heed of her presence, and talked of her aloud, to her face, as of something unclean, abject, and yet, at the same time, passably pretty.
She saw the abject manikin before her cowering, silent, in his chair.
Unfortunately, only a handful of Goya's images were on display, but Dix's candid and appalling jeremiad against the abject horrors of war was shown to full ghoulish effect.
And as he rolled, and felt sharp teeth pricking him, he snapped and snarled, alternating snarls with whimperings and squallings of terror, pain, and abject humility.
At night the bunched electrics lit up that distressful palace of all the luxuries, and they fared sumptuously, swinging on through the emptiness of abject desolation.

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