| The worst humiliation of contemporary religious life is the abjectness of needing God and a community badly enough even to sit through this. |
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| United's abjectness was pivotal to them being routed by Rangers on Wednesday. |
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| He must shoulder some responsibility for the abjectness of the past season. |
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| That said, his natural abjectness is convincing: this is a character for whom life takes place on the other side of an unreachable chasm. |
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| More broadly, there is in this culture a humiliation, an abjectness, in always playing by the rules. |
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| However, we have reached another level of barbarism and abjectness when children are used to fight and kill or be killed. |
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| I've concluded that simple remorse is barely worth the trouble of expressing it, and that abjectness may be more calculated than real. |
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| Is there no limit to the abjectness of the Church's response to terror? |
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| Nope, no chance of that, any more than there was a chance that the abjectness of the Democrats during the 1980s compelled its finest young talents to switch parties. |
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| But as emotional shorthand, this posture taps into the raw, breath-sucking abjectness that makes Dostoyevsky's novel such an enduringly harrowing read. |
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| In the Apologie, Pascal shows the man without grace to be an incomprehensible mixture of greatness and abjectness, incapable of truth or of reaching the supreme good to which his nature nevertheless aspires. |
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