| It's also a chop-licking self-abasement, gratified by the patronage of grown-ups. |
| 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. |
| They incorrectly insist on self-abasement, worship of angels, and the centrality of visions. |
| From clinical examinations, most NE children suffer from mental problems such as depression, self-abasement and difficulties in dealing with personal relations. |
| Sam would be kept away from pop music and television but would study the viola as a salutary form of self-abasement. |
| I realized that this self-abasement or internalized moralistic rebuke was what I had been writing about from the very beginning. |
