Word: abjectly
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...divorce" was the ugliest in the English language. Sound traveled from bedroom to bedroom, and the word came seeping through the heating ducts. My sisters and I would stay up at night, listening to our parents argue, hiding from that word. And when it traveled into our room, absolute abject panic set in. My sisters would burst into tears, and we would all hold one another. And when the separation finally came, we were no better off for having waited six years for it to occur. I have two wonderful parents; they raised me really well. Sometimes parents can work...
...historians have focused scholarly attentions more closely on the period. In doing so, they have begun to reveal a time of harsh penal codes that permitted judges to flaunt the death penalty, a dearth of law enforcement, incipient industrial revolution, violent town-wide football matches, bear baiting, turnpike rioting, abject urban poverty, burgeoning trade, and busting shops...
...plays a game of trading punches with an unwary, usually unworthy opponent: "Hit me as hard as you can. Right here." There are moments, though, when the impossibility of his ambitions comes burning through in a way his talent never does, and then he becomes not only humble but abject. "Know what we did, Lucy?" he asks his wife, after their marriage has shredded. "We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing...
...earnings. The tyrant responsible for her plight, according to the Declaration of Seneca Falls, was Man, who "has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life...
...record opens with a scrappy declaration of Lennonesque independence, I'm Stepping Out, but I Don't Wanna Face It fades down with a clipped cry that sounds like a housebroken werewolf. The second side offers the unwelcome spectacle of Lennon, abject, begging (Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess, then following Ono's Let Me Count the Ways with Grow Old with Me. Yoke's album notes explain: "John and I always thought, among many other things, that we were maybe the reincarnation of Robert [Browning] and Liz [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]." Lennon wanted Grow Old with...