| But one German theologian has recently proposed explanatory footnotes to turn the most problematic passages — the black children abasing themselves before Pippi, for example — into educational opportunities. |
| It was humbly done, but picturesquely, and was not abasing to the doer. |
| They find a secret delight in abasing themselves before men of violence. |
| Here Locke is out of control, abasing herself before a psychopath who preys on vulnerable women, and then getting all up in his face, in the space of one sentence. |
| He starts their final duet by abasing himself, falling at her feet. |
| It's an icky daddy-daughter comedy featuring character actors abasing themselves horribly for the money. |
