Word: abjectness
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...Sixth Sense, Fenton is the subject of a supernatural affliction, but O’Leary’s response is hardened, stoic and fairly riveting for its intensity. After Fenton’s father tells of his divine task, Fenton responds with understandable skepticism that eventually decays into abject panic and hardened frustration as the body count mounts. When Dad excessively punishes Fenton for insubordination, O’Leary invests in his tortured son role a blank-faced, darkly brooding quality that is wonderfully mature considering...
Hussein, of course, has rejected smart sanctions, international weapons inspectors and an expanded oil-for-food program. He has continued to use the people of Iraq as his pawns in a callous act of international blackmail, exhibiting their abject poverty as evidence of U.S. cruelty while he and his henchmen live in luxury. His behavior is evidence of his utter disregard for the people of Iraq—if anyone had needed more from a leader who attacked his own nation’s citizens with nerve...
...Laden to the West, he betrays the man who helped bring him to power and sustains his rule now. If he follows his faith in Islamic jihad or his country's tradition of protecting guests, he condemns Afghanistan to another onslaught in the savage wars that have brought abject misery to its people for the past 22 years. Even if he does hand over bin Laden to American authorities tomorrow, he has no guarantee that the U.S. will not make his regime pay for its sins of the past...
...Laden to the West, he betrays the man who helped bring him to power and sustains his rule now. If he follows his faith in Islamic jihad or his country's tradition of protecting guests, he condemns Afghanistan to another onslaught in the savage wars that have brought abject misery to its people for the past 22 years. Even if he does hand over bin Laden to American authorities tomorrow, he has no guarantee that the U.S. will not make his regime pay for its sins of the past...
...Here was this kid who grew up in abject poverty, and he was just starting to come into his own,” Stone says. “He was just starting to really be free. It was grand...