| However, we have reached another level of barbarism and abjectness when children are used to fight and kill or be killed. |
| That said, his natural abjectness is convincing: this is a character for whom life takes place on the other side of an unreachable chasm. |
| I've concluded that simple remorse is barely worth the trouble of expressing it, and that abjectness may be more calculated than real. |
| United's abjectness was pivotal to them being routed by Rangers on Wednesday. |
| The worst humiliation of contemporary religious life is the abjectness of needing God and a community badly enough even to sit through this. |
| He must shoulder some responsibility for the abjectness of the past season. |
