Word: abjection
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Summers said that the Baccalaureate Service derived from an over 600-year-old custom at Cambridge University, in which graduates were forced to sit through the ceremony with, “bowed head over which...hood was drawn, a picture of abject humility and utter embarrassment...
...undergraduate at Taylor University in Indiana, Simons spent a semester studying in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala and was struck by the abject poverty he witnessed. “It wouldn’t be right for me to go back to the States and pretend I never saw that,” Simons said...
What has kept Anthony's vocal cords robust over the years--in 110 roles in 69 operas--is as much a mystery to him as it is to others. "It must be God's plan," he says. But Anthony has no doubt about what has kept his performances focused: "Abject terror. A singer onstage in the moments before he opens his mouth is the loneliest person in the world. You never know what's going to come out." He adds, "I take it all so seriously. I think of where I am: on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera! When...
...Krauthammer's rabid xenophobia is downright nauseating. He stoops to the most abject revisionism to make his case against America's longtime allies. Allies are friends. Among the things we expect from friends is an effort to prevent us from making mistakes. Going to war over (nonexistent) weapons of mass destruction (WMD) was a mistake, and the French were right to oppose the U.S. invasion of Iraq. But France agreed that eliminating the Taliban in Afghanistan was a good idea and still contributes there. America's French ally has been polite enough not to scream "I told you so!" about...
While President Bush’s nominees have exhibited legal excellence and diversity, “it’s on ideology that [Bush] is an abject failure,” Schumer said...