Word: abjectly
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...years, as they watched Mikhail Gorbachev bull his way through history, remaking his country, his era and himself, Soviets and Westerners alike wondered whether there was anything he couldn't do. Wasn't there some innovation so radical, or some capitulation so abject, that he simply couldn't get away with it? Like scientists pondering the limits of an anomalous but potent force of nature, Kremlinologists speculated about the existence of a "red line" that Gorbachev could not cross without reaping the whirlwind...
...crybaby, on the other hand, is the abject, manipulative little devil with the lawyer and, so to speak, the actionable diaper rash. He is a mayor of Washington, arrested (and captured on videotape) as he smokes crack in a hotel room with a woman not his wife. He pronounces himself a victim -- of the woman, of white injustice, of the universe. Whatever...
...cities of the South, West and North, bringing to urban culture their broken hearts in a tragic search for a fragment of dignity and security. That migration, one of the largest such internal movements of people in history, transformed America. The blacks who stayed behind suffered from abject poverty and near starvation. When Bobby Kennedy visited the Delta in the spring of 1967, he was shocked by the conditions. "My God," he said, "I didn't know this kind of thing existed. How can a country like this allow...
...West. Traditionally, the gibing has been mixed with an abiding envy of the California megalopolis' trend-setting dynamism. But lately no amount of envy -- or imitation -- seems enough to offset the vitriol that is being aimed at L.A. from every direction. Los Angeles has become the butt of abject opprobrium -- the "villain" of the West...
...voted to authorize President Bush to use force against Iraq in accordance with United Nations resolutions that have already been adopted. Certainly, the margins of passage in each house were far from overwhelming. But a majority of representatives understand that sanctions alone will not work. In the absence of abject Iraqi surrender, Iraq's forces must be dislodged from Kuwait by military means and Saddam Hussein's arsenal utterly destroyed...