US /ˈæbˌdʒɛkt, æbˈdʒɛkt/
・UK /ˈæbdʒekt/
Workers lived in conditions that people living in the developed world today would associate with abject poverty.
in the developed world today would associate with abject poverty.
Wall Street's message of abject panic must have gotten through to Trump because just a few hours after floating the idea, he told reporters that he was highly unlikely to fire the Fed chair,
Wall Street's message of abject panic must have gotten through to Trump, because just a few hours after floating the idea, he told reporters that he was highly unlikely to fire the Fed chair, but made it clear he's no fan.
"Look here!" From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable.
From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous,
Lastly, break the wise rules. Of course you should never call them, naturally you shouldn't beg them to return, it's entirely necessary to block their number. But there are grave dangers in trying to be so grown up one never allows oneself to mature. There are certain blows to the ego from which one can only ever recover through unguarded humiliation. Make yourself abject and silly. Try everything and watch it fail. Observe yourself descending into a mockery of your former coherent self. Sink as deep as the pain commands. Live the impossibility, don't just intellectually assume it and then suffer from your emotions never following suit. Properly experience where things can't be until the lesson sinks in authentically rather than logically. Tie yourself back to health. No one can make you wise one moment ahead of time or in your place. The best way to recover sanity is to allow madness to have its full, unfettered, horrific, necessary run.
Make yourself abject and silly, try everything,
an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen
But the words were hardly uttered before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.
"Look here." From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children, wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable.
From the foldings of its robe it brought two children; wretched, abject,
You're going to grab the last of those Capitol cream puffs, run into the arena, grab your knives, stab everyone, and then spend your days on Victor's row in abject guilt and isolation.
in abject guilt and isolation.
The idea that we work for him, that we work for them, is so humiliating and is such an abject failure on the part of Trump in terms of his weakness.
The idea that we work for him, that we work for them is so humiliating and is such an abject failure on the part of Trump in terms of his weakness.
Just as if years ago, perhaps, you were born into a society as an abject slave, since you have never been exposed to anything contrary, you might even believe that you're supposed to be a slave, as though it is, again, a natural order of reality.
born into a society as an abject slave
Just as if years ago, perhaps, you were born into a society as an abject slave, since you have never been exposed to anything contrary, you might even believe that you're supposed to be a slave, as though it is, again, a natural order of reality.
born into a society as an abject slave