Word: abjectness
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...clearly been incompetent, venal, corrupt and highhanded. Personally, Bayar has won reluctant respect by his stiff-necked dignity, apologizing for nothing, defiantly reminding his judges that he is an old man and indifferent to what they can do to him. Menderes has lost stature by his air of abject humility and his voluble eagerness to shift responsibility to anybody but himself. To many of his once fervent supporters, he no longer seems like the great man who ran Turkey so smoothly and so long...
...paid $750,000 to the conspirators, among them his own British aide. Eventually, the truth came out and the case went to court, where Sir Hari's own counsel, Lord John Simon (later Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer), described his client as "a poor, green, shivering, abject wretch." Sir Hari returned home to face the wrath of his uncle, the then Maharajah, who banished him to a remote jungle estate for six months and made him perform ritual acts of humiliation and penance...
...harm in the process, contrasts strikingly with the gloominess that tinged economics during much of its history. To the British writer Thomas Carlyle in the middle of the 19th century, the classical economics, with its stress on the iron inexorability of economic laws, seemed "dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing . . . the dismal science...
Students at the University College will be lucky if they escape with no more severe punishment than an abject letter of apology to His Imperial Highness (one can get into serious trouble by failing to use this title when referring to the King of Kings), for as late as 1955, when I left the country completely disenchanted with its ruler, the Ministry of Education maintained "prison rooms" for students "with advanced ideas of equality and democracy" in its compound adjoining University College and public floggings of such students were a frequent practice. The hanging of corpses will not keep...
...though the shock of the war had left a different imprint upon everyone it touched. The only real point of contact between the French woman and the Japanese architect lies in their hatred of the war, a hatred arising from two completely different ideas of what the war was. Abject terror, however, is the overwhelming constituent of both views, and Hiroshima Mon Amour, is above anything else, an attempt to instill that terror in a populace which has built the new Hiroshima and has forgotten, or never experienced the destruction...