Word: abjectness
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What is wrong with the U.S.? Have we fallen so low that we now accept abject amorality in our nation's most honored position? People should be outraged! Starr's report confirms our suspicions that the President has disgraced himself, his office and the ethical traditions that have nurtured this Republic since its inception. President Clinton should resign immediately and bring this sordid episode to an end. J. WALLACE DAVIES Anderson...
...hide behind semantic sophistry. After about a week of excruciating deliberation--made all the more painful because some of the black clergymen advising Jackson wanted him to continue lying in order to preserve his political viability--Jackson went into a synagogue in New Hampshire and delivered an abject apology. Later, at the Democratic Convention in San Francisco, he repeated his plea for forgiveness, insisting passionately that "God isn't finished with me yet." It may have been the best speech he has ever given...
What makes President Mandela even more extraordinary is his choice to trade a life of relative privilege for one of unceasing struggle. Of royal lineage, President Mandela was groomed from birth to take a high office in regional government. He left home, however, to become a lawyer, fighting abject poverty while earning his degree. Eventually he launched a promising legal career that could have spared him some of the trials he saw his fellow South Africans suffer...
...says. "It was time for new territory." Amos has long had some of the most fervid fans in rock--the numerous websites devoted to her portray her less as a rock star than as a religious experience in human form. Her new CD proves her worthy maybe not of abject devotion but certainly praise...
...working on things, that they were busy but would soon get around to it, that they would call me "at the beginning of next week." In my mind, the beginning of a week ends with Wednesday. I shudder to recall the number of melancholy Thursday mornings I spent in abject disappointment...