Word: abjected
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...across a sky a la Marc Chagall (then 2). Fifty-four years ago Ensor scandalized even the most audacious art lovers with his Entry of Christ into Brussels. This canvas showed a vast crowd of leering men & women, one a skeleton, others with masks, around a hardly noticeable Christ, abject upon a mule...
...entirely hopeless," said CBS's roly-poly Correspondent William J. Dunn Jr. "Undoubtedly religious teachings about the glories of dying in battle provide a contributing factor, but Americans who have talked to Japanese prisoners believe the prime reason for their preference for death, suicidal if necessary, is abject terror over the possibility of torture by Allied soldiers." One prisoner, groveling at the feet of his captors, begged to be shot rather than tortured. Convinced that he would not be tortured, he danced gleefully, insisted upon shaking hands with one & all. Other Japanese had been taught that Australians, relishing yellow...
...Moby Dick" still harder to agree that its bitterest lines-Huck's meditation on slavery-excel the best of Jonathan Swift. But discerning critics will be grateful for DeVoto's evaluation of the heroic role of Jim, for his mapping of the streaks of cruelty and abject, indigenous meanness which are too easily overlooked in the broad morning sunlight of Mark Twain's unliterary prose. They will also be grateful for DeVoto's unabashed adoration of Huckleberry Finn, for it is one of those rare books which, like the half-created civilization that it brings...
Yaws, afflicting about a third of all Haitians, long confused with syphilis because of their loathesome, gaping sores. Spread mainly by flies, also by ticks, lice and bedbugs, yaws affect mostly Negroes, "is a consequence of abject poverty." It can be cured by salvarsan, but the process is costly, painful, interminable...
...jury . . . this blank-brained menagerie, bamboozled by transparent obfuscations ... the gang of sneaking child-cheaters . . . these two low, skulking rogues . . . and the rest of the besotted judicial jackals . . . illiterate imbeciles . . . lick-spittle timeservers and chore-boys . . . aromatically crooked as a skunk's hind leg. . . . The corruption of these abject poltroons is merely one example of the corruption which infects our entire judicial system . . . these esurient, self-seeking herding jerks...