Word: abjectness
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...game between the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys, he referred to Alvin Garrett, a black wide receiver for the Redskins, as "that little monkey." Cosell's remark "was a slip that reflected a thought," said an incensed Lowery. Cosell, who at first denied the comment, was less abject than adenoidal, even though his remark had lit up the network's switchboard with angry calls. On his daily ABC radio show, Supermouth expressed his admiration for Garrett and noted, accurately, that some of his best friends were black, including Muhammad Ali, Willie Stargell and Sugar Ray Leonard...
THAT MOOD comes through most clearly in one scene early in the film, one of the first discussions between Guy and Billy. The two are discussing the problems of the Indonesian masses, not with condescension but with an almost abject resignation to the enormity of the suffering Guy, summoning his journalistic instincts goes to where the "story" is, he believes that the "big actors" governments politicians--will bring salvation Billy, by contrast, sees the micro approach as best For him, it is in the small piecemeal actions of even the lowliest members of society that improvement will start...
...Only a few people seemed concerned that Adolf Hitler had just come to power in Germany. Even so, the pacifists' victory stirred an outcry. The Daily Express ranted against the "woozy-minded Communists, practical jokers and sexual indeterminates of Oxford," while Winston Churchill deplored "this abject, squalid, shameless avowal...
...staggering chemistry. While the abrupt revelation that Nathan is a schizophrenic--crucial to the plot--does not satisfactorily account for Kline's flamboyant magnetism, that magnetism nevertheless is riveting. Kline apes MacNicol's Southern accent and frolics through extravagant pranks and outings while Streep watches him in mute, almost abject admiration: not a flicker of an eyelid spoils the effect...
...that it's suffering from acute international indigestion. It has taken big bites out of Afghanistan and other countries, but it hasn't been able to digest them. It's paying the cost of conquest in Poland, Cuba and Viet Nam. The system has been an abject failure at home and has no appeal abroad...