abjectness

But there's an abjectness at the center that rings true.

He stood, bowed with more courtesy than abjectness, and turned to go.

He could feel the defiance in his face replacing itself with a pleading abjectness.

That is Tibetan abjectness of white flag, belly upward, all four feet in air!

Take pleasure in his abjectness, and hug The scorpion that consumes him?

The abjectness of their servitude is incomprehensible to us.

However, we have reached another level of barbarism and abjectness when children are used to fight and kill or be killed.

A crucial ingredient of Hart's abjectness was his acute sense of what we now call body image.

No baboon beaten by a rival could have shown more abjectness than Rash's body showed as he ran away.

If anything, it seemed that our abjectness might have made her own status, presumably different than ours, seem even finer and more exalted.

And the peddler's abjectness had shocked him.

I've concluded that simple remorse is barely worth the trouble of expressing it, and that abjectness may be more calculated than real.

The abjectness!"

Billy moaned and groaned in the abjectness of humility and surrender, and let her have her way.

White Fang crawled slowly, cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission.

The other word Dostoyevsky used, engaging in a little alliteration, was "podlost," a more common word than "abjectness" ever was.

Ms. Baeumler's excellent performance is crucial, as her Jane segues from sullen abjectness into triumphal participation in the world of Ibsen's play.

The jeep was quiet as we drove away, as if the sheer abjectness of Sarki's poverty negated the meaning of anything that could be said about it.

Mr. Brennan lapses instantly and miraculously from brusque, masculine assertiveness into the startling, red-eyed abjectness of a man who is about to cry or has just finished crying.

When he went there for the first time in 1962 to write "An Area of Darkness," he found himself overwhelmed by a sense of "abjectness and defeat and shame."

While the latter stood there, even in the abjectness of his plight, Stoutenburg felt that he was a living menace to the success of all his well- thought-out schemes.

The missionary had been forewarned: if he couldn't see beyond such abjectness, he would be of scant use to St Ignatius - or to any mission in such a world.

The abjectness of these brothers' lives is painfully contrasted with the false merriment of the Moscow Olympics, as symbolized by that grinning Soviet mascot, Misha the Bear.

But 1967's "You'll Recover in Time," with lyrics by Mr. Paycheck and Mr. Mayhew, is the pinnacle of hard-country abjectness.

At the same time, it also represented "poverty and an abjectness too fearful to imagine" - all the frightening things his ancestors had tried to escape and which he himself continued to find threatening.