Word: abjection
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Blackmail, suspicious moves and abject surrender arouse anger and protest...
Home. In a picaresque odyssey, a black Southern farmer is exiled from his bucolic birthright to a Northern city of torrid lures and abject nightmares. Guiding him safely back home is Playwright Samm-Art Williams, an imagistic poet of prose wedded to infectious humor...
...argued that Tally's targets have already been amply peppered, but that objection will not suffice. The perennial aim of satire has been to reiterate the obvious in order to awaken us from abject moral slumber...
...seriocomic drama is a relentlessly pumped-up footnote to Stalinist repression. It is a police-state curio dating from 1932. After 18 months of rehearsals, The Suicide was banned by the Moscow censors on the night of its dress rehearsal, and its author, Nikolai Erdman (1902-70), fell into abject disfavor...
America's economy has visited the nether reaches under Carter's guidance; yet his only response to the abject misery of millions is to emphasize the unfairness of life and induce a job-robbing recession. Abroad, despite his avowed commitment to "human rights," Carter has shared the acquisitive and paranoid biases of his predecessors. Be it in Cuba, where he tried to create his own missile crisis over the existence of a 15-year old Soviet combat brigade, be it in Iran, where he embraced the Shah and called him a man beloved by his people...