Word: abjectly
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...Kath, 42-year-old Mary Ann Bergonzi portrays with remarkable depth and understanding a desparate woman's attempt to find love Her surface simple-mindedness contrasts dynamically with her constant hyperactive movements, eliciting pity for her abject loneliness Kath epitomizes a woman in search of someone to love...
...loving to the censorious Papa Leopold. For Maria Anna Thekla ("Bäsle"), the "little cousin" from Augsburg, he concocted an impish scatology ("Our arses shall be the symbol of our peacemaking!"), and his epistolary requests for from his generous friend Michael Puchberg read like a parody of abject pleading...
...oneself in "the trades"* is second nature throughout Hollywood. Says one major studio executive: "Ours is a business of hype." Scarcely a day goes by without an ad, a story or a skillfully planted gossip item about an overnight success, an out-of-town comeback, an agent's abject gratitude that some hot client continues to employ him. Says cable talk-show host Colin Dangaard: "A publicist in this town would rather have a story about a client in the Hollywood Reporter than in the Wall Street Journal. A lot of people may not get around to reading...
...rather than flout Judge Justice's order. Illinois is appealing last year's federal court order to house inmates in single cells, which officials estimate would require $400 million in new construction. Michigan (like Iowa and Minnesota) has a law that automatically provides for releasing inmates when overcrowding becomes abject. Twice this year the statutory safety valve was triggered in Michigan, instantly subtracting 90 days from the sentences of most prisoners. By the end of the year 1,400 will have been freed early. Crowdedness has forced Illinois prison officials to lower their standards for giving "meritorious good time...
...Congress performs its own impressive feats of dissociation. The polls consistently show that between 70% and 75% of Americans favor a balanced-budget amendment. It is an election year. A majority in the Senate, possibly to be echoed in the House, proceeds along the lines of an entertaining but abject logic: STOP ME BEFORE I KILL AGAIN. The sponsors of the amendment to mandate balanced federal budgets have flocked to the Constitution, as to the Wizard of Oz, to ask for a superego, to plead for the discipline that they have been unable to enforce upon themselves...