Word: abjection
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Part of this results from the form of the picture; it is told in a series of carefully integrated flashbacks by characters who know how to tell a story. The rest is due to the characters themselves: an abject Dutch artist who loses his wife to the painter, a Tahitian woman who looks for another wife for that painter, and the native girl who becomes the wife; they are all convincing. George Sanders and Herbert Marshall are respectively gruff and concerned as artist and artist's friend...
...State Department's . . . sycophancy toward Great Britain, plus abject fear of Russia and its least organized satellite, has betrayed China, and is thus moving to concede all Asia to Communism...
Last week the State Department made an abject apology: "Miss Comfort was detained as the result of a most regrettable and unfortunate mistake. There is no information in the files of the immigration service which would render her inadmissible should she apply for entry into the United States in the future...
...next three committee sessions Worth squirmed unhappily on the committee griddle. In an abject recantation Witness V. Torth agreed that there was no evidence of corruption in the B-36 procurement program,* that neither Defense Secretary Louis Johnson nor Air Secretary Stuart Symington nor top Air Force officers had been guilty of impropriety in buying the Consolidated bomber, that it was "ridiculous" to say (as the anonymous statement had suggested) that Board Chairman Floyd Odium and the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. had contributed $6,500,000 to the Democratic campaign...
...Oceania only the poorly fed, beast-brained "proles" (proletariat) lead what might be called a natural life-in hideous slums. The rest of the population, comprising millions of abject party-members, live out their life-in-death under the all-seeing eye of the Ministry of Love, whose "telescreens" (which hear and see every move and sound and bark out harsh commands) are a fixture in every apartment. Each dreary day sees the disappearance of a colleague or relative into the Ministry's death-cellars. No one writes letters; no authentic records of the past are permitted; no memory...