Word: abjectness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself. ... He has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life...
...bird now with the husband, now with the wife, shows it as the intense embodiment of captive freedom, of the artist's urge, of love. By the time the day is over, the mutual crucifixion of the Irish marriage is thoroughly clear; the Irishman has made two abject, ambiguous attempts at murder; and Glenway Wescott has wrung a little more than the last drop of slantwise symbolism from the actions and the lore of the bird...
...Expected Theme of the first 2,000 Lewis words was Lewis against Roosevelt. That theme had first been sounded by John Lewis within a year after he poured $500,000 into the 1936 Roosevelt campaign. Last year he arraigned the New Deal for abject domestic failure ("The nation cannot forever continue its appalling drift"). Last January he had fiercely denounced a third term. Last week he finally let himself go. Speaking like an oldtime tragedian, he let his orotund words roll out over three networks, 322 radio stations, to perhaps 25,000,000 listeners...
There the startled receptionist of Manhattan's Roman Catholic Church of the Guardian Angel found this abject fatness slobbering, went to fetch Father Rinschler. The shuddering fat man looked up and shrieked: "Three men are waiting out there to kill me." Father Rinschler called the police, who dragged the sanctuary-seeker away, still gobbling like a terrified turkey...
...prove to his opponents that he too can be sophisticated, Georges Bernanos opens his novel with a few venomously comic, ugly chapters in which a little 16-year-old wild beast of a girl murders the rural marquis who has seduced her, makes an abject jackass of a hagridden local doctor. That done, Bernanos settles down to his own business...