| They incorrectly insist on self-abasement, worship of angels, and the centrality of visions. |
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| What's conservative about demanding people submit to public self-abasement? |
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| I realized that this self-abasement or internalized moralistic rebuke was what I had been writing about from the very beginning. |
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| Sam would be kept away from pop music and television but would study the viola as a salutary form of self-abasement. |
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| By exacerbating the contradiction between self-determination and self-abasement, the way was cleared for an epochal resolution. |
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| The result was a lengthy and noisy competition in self-abasement and mutual re-assurance. |
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| Each character, from the children to the elders, responds to Grace's self-abasement by enacting the expected role of brute in their own particular way. |
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| It involves, onstage or off, complete self-abasement and is very painful. |
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| Aggressive self-abasement, grandstanding, veiled abuse, genuine thoughtfulness, thin-skinned pandering — it's all there. |
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| It's also a chop-licking self-abasement, gratified by the patronage of grown-ups. |
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| From clinical examinations, most NE children suffer from mental problems such as depression, self-abasement and difficulties in dealing with personal relations. |
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| His relationship with Mary had also taught him that this virtue was not to be associated with excessive self-abasement. |
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| A little self-abasement was a price worth paying. |
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| They learned spoliation, the most radical and absolute self-abasement, from Him. |
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| He smiles with the pleasure of mild self-abasement. |
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| These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting rigor of devotion and self-abasement and severity to the body, but they are of no value in checking the indulgence of the flesh. |
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| Self-abasement is a process whereby through criticizing, blaming, or otherwise derogating the self, the individual seeks to allay anxiety. |
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| Self-abasement was a Chaucerian inheritance that Shakespeare merged with the Plautine plaudite, and as such should not be mistaken for autobiography. |
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