Word: abjectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reading these books can be an exercise in abject fascination: matters of morality are disturbingly outflanked by questions of sanity. Hollywood has attempted this effect with Defense Department-size budgets, celebrity brass and vast pretensions. The results have been a parody of the wastefulness of war itself. The truth of a holocaust is not apocalyptic; it comes slowly, relentlessly, word by word. -ByR.Z. Sheppard...
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...