| 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. |
| That said, his natural abjectness is convincing: this is a character for whom life takes place on the other side of an unreachable chasm. |
| More broadly, there is in this culture a humiliation, an abjectness, in always playing by the rules. |
| 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. |
| Is there no limit to the abjectness of the Church's response to terror? |
| United's abjectness was pivotal to them being routed by Rangers on Wednesday. |
