Sentences with phrase «by abject»

More impressive is the way the front axle maximizes the shove away from tighter turns: there's no limited - slip differential fitted on our car (it's optional), and yet the traction control is triggered only by abject hooliganism from the driver.

So completely amorphous and entirely unpredictable is this season, and so totally and incessantly drowned out by the abject hysteria of current world affairs, that focusing on potential nominees is at least a solid diversion from the horror of the daily news feed.

As a complete experience, Dark Void has moments of intense action, broken up by abject foolishness.

This ongoing crisis was deepened by the abject failure of Slaven et al to get a brace of central defenders from among the several transfers of accomplished CB's that took place during the summer transfer window.

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But the kind of abject poverty that over one billion people endure — those living on $ 1 per day — wouldn't be tolerated by Jesus and should not exist today.

It creates feelings of awe in the hearts of loyal subjects and thus supports the «godness» of God, but these feelings are balanced by others of abject fear and humiliation: in this picture, God can be God only if we are nothing.

Repudiating the fear and dread inspired in men by Satan and his churches — an Angst deriving from an abject and selfish terror of death (38:38)-- Milton's purpose is to teach men to despise death and to move forward:

Yet on returning to bed I was suddenly seized by blank terror; for perhaps ten minutes I trembled in abject fear.

When Alan Ball was 13, his sister died in a car accident and his mother's abject grief was hushed and over-buffered by the fashions in funerals then — to treat grief as a structural weakness, by which folks were forever «breaking down» or «falling apart» or «going to pieces.»

This game contained, in brute list form: a remarkable opening goal from David Beckham (that has been almost completely forgotten by history, which says a lot about what was to follow); a spawny equaliser; Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira; a (correctly) disallowed Nicolas Anelka goal that was (wonderfully) celebrated for fully a minute and a half; Jaap Stam and Tony Adams; a (deserved) red card that involved the referee actively pursuing Keane, the better to take (onanistic) pleasure in the act of dismissal; extra-time; Arsenal pressure; a (hopelessly abject) foul from Phil Neville to concede a penalty; a surprisingly tepid missed penalty from Dennis Bergkamp; Peter Schmeichel saving; Peter Schmeichel barking; an unusually sleepy pass from Vieira; and then, that run, that finish, that goal, that winner, that completely stupid slalom through a stupified defence.

The terms outlined by the tabloid are perhaps intriguing considering Mourinho's abject failure during the first half of the ongoing season.

His once great legacy has been overshadowed by years of abject performances resulting in complete failure.

Lets assume his attacking flair has been neutered by wenger abject tactics, what about his defending, he cant be bothered to move his ass to defend even when he loses the ball.

Just very occasionally, and that is usually when the team has been rightly slaughtered for regular abject displays by not turning up and having their courage questioned.

They were so abject that they were outshone and outclassed by the DM (Alex Song) in the middle.

Egypt were an abject embarrassment in the same qualifying group, while Algeria were smoked by Morocco in June to shatter their chances at qualifying.

But there is also a growing feeling, which must have grown a lot more after this weekend's abject show at West Brom, that the boss has not got the same control over the Arsenal dressing room as he used to have and Wenger gave this idea even more weight with some of his post match comments reported by Metro.

Sunday's shock defeat at home to West Bromwich Albion handed the Premier League title to Manchester City, and the abject performances from some of his bigger players did not go unnoticed by the Man United boss.

Last night's abject defeat against Sunderland was epitomised for me by the sight of a young kid crying inconsolably as I plodded down Sir Matt Busby Way before crossing the tram tracks and heading home with a heavy heart.

Then came the second leg match - up at the Camp Nou, and the furore surrounding Van Persie's dismissal and the abject performance by the midfield, with the exception of Jack Wilshere, has put Arsenal in a familiar state of helplessness yet again, with their chances of a trophy now cut into half.

Disorganised, dazed and confused, their abject performance in Sunday's 2 - 0 home loss to Darmstadt had relegation running through it and for all the bullish noises continuing to be made by irascible Dutch coach, Huub Stevens, the air of resignation is palpable at the Rhein - Neckar - Arena.

Surrendering Saif to the ICC would be seen by most Libyans as an abject failure.

He said, «The President will not, in the guise of «marketing» the country, refrain from telling Nigerians and the world, the emerging truths about the abject state in which years of plundering by a PDP leadership has left the Nigerian treasury and economy.

... More than Ken Livingstone's disastrous campaign, this hypocrisy, this abject political cowardice by Labour's senior political figures will be the real travesty.»

Don't we hear Ghanaians lamenting of abject lawlessness and wanton violence sponsored by surrogates of Nana Akufo - Addo and his NPP?»

The storm of outrage among civil society organisations over the government's bill to stifle campaigning by voluntary bodies, pressure groups and charities for a year in advance of the next general election has eclipsed debate on the abject weakness of the same bill's proposals for a register of lobbyists.

One is an early scene of her being terrorized and abused by Taiwanese drug thugs: Lucy's abject helplessness here is hard to watch.

Based on the best selling autobiography by Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes is the story of young Frankie and his siblings being raised in abject poverty in the slums of Limerick.

Living in equally abject poverty nearby is the Jackson family, headed by patriarch Hap (Rob Morgan), a preacher and tenant who labors over the 200 acres he will never own, and his hard - working wife Florence (Mary J. Blige) who plows the fields, raises her children, and works as Laura's maid.

More of a metaphysical adventure tale that delves into some moments of abject horror, Annihilation is a potent demonstration of Garland's range within the genre itself, as well as those who have provided him inspiration (if Ex Machina was haunted by the specter of Stanley Kubrick, Annihilation is possessed by Andrei Tarkovsky).

Traveling to Japan in search of their mentor (Liam Neeson), who is rumored to have disavowed Christianity and taken a Japanese wife, Rodrigues and his fellow Jesuit Father Garrpe (Adam Driver) are confronted with abject poverty and an oppressive government that condemns Christians to live in fear — desperate circumstances the fathers believe can be improved only by faith in God.

It begins in spring with a close - up of a face locked in abject misery: Asked by a counselor how happy she is on a scale from one to 10, Janet (Imelda Staunton) says one, in effect setting the tone for much of the film.

This brings to mind a collection of other far - left - leaning pop - films that find our way of life — the concept of the American Dream itself — particularly dubious: Nightcrawler's gaze at death incurred by corporate lingo and unregulated industries, A Most Violent Year's lament for the impossibility of moral management, Foxcatcher's conception of America as a land of slaves and slavemasters, Fury's abject refusal to render Americans the «good guys» even when fighting fascism, the entirety of Inherent Vice.

It's an area overrun by poverty, yet despite the tragic circumstances there's a poetic beauty to Dayveon that prevents it from descending into abject misery, even when Day, despite the best efforts of his sister's boyfriend, Brain (Dontrell Bright), falls in with a local gang; drawn in by their sense of brotherhood and camaraderie.

While TV shows such as «Westworld» and «The Handmaid's Tale» were dragging audiences kicking and screaming through the muck of abject misery and hopelessness, cinema was taking people by the hand, reacquainting them with joy, warmth and especially the importance of family.

Director Amat Escalante uses artful long takes, nonprofessional actors, and moments of abject miserableness — in one terrible - to - watch scene, a character has his genitals lit on fire — to sketch the story of a decent Mexican family churned up by their country's corrupt police force.

The end result is a seriously disappointing adaptation that's never able to reach the electrifying heights achieved by its literary predecessor, with the movie's abject failure certainly not boding well for the next two installments in the series.

Like its protagonists, we're pulled into it without thinking, bound by its vision in a state of abject awe.

Or, put another way, if teachers were generating high test score gains from their students by creating a climate of abject fear in their classrooms, their observation scores should be low and that information is useful.

The privatization movement in Michigan, in large part bankrolled and advocated for by Devos is an abject failure.

Judging by CMT results alone, the Simsbury teacher would be deemed exceptional while the Hartford teacher would be deemed an abject failure.

To be honest, I, too, have on occasion found comfort in such facile explanations for the nation's abject failure to deal with so many glaring problems, including several of interest to readers of car magazines: the pervasive failure to address global warming and finite supplies of fossil fuels; tens of thousands of road fatalities year in and year out; the burgeoning safety risk caused by in - car communications and telematics; the failure to maintain the roads we've got while creating better ones and efficient alternatives; and, of course, our continued inability to buy new Peugeots in the United States.

Johnson steers clear of abject terror by weaving a thread of humor throughout, while Mead's black - and - white illustrations ramp up each tale's tension and fear factor to levels of delightful squirming.

Zamperini is taken to a Japanese POW camp, where he is treated with abject cruelty by captors that hope to destroy him.

The stealth genre has long been plagued by the enveloping darkness of abject failure, an impending sense of fear that everything you have worked so hard to accomplish is but hair's breadth away from collapsing...

The machine has, by most metrics, been an abject failure.

The process gives the faces a charred, abject appearance, heightened by the gravity - induced stream of drips from necks that evoke blood from severed heads.

Melgaard's schizophrenic accumulations of vulgar ephemera might evoke the installations of Thomas Hirschhorn — that is, if Hirschhorn's papery images of war - ravaged, blown - apart bodies and Hellraiser - like mannequins were replaced by cum - dripping penises and self - fisting platypuses; that is, if Hirschhorn were in fact not a heterosexual Swiss man but a sexy, hairy, Australian - born Norwegian gay guy hell - bent, in the abject tradition of Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, on figuratively shitting all over mainstream culture.

Here, Place the Lever is the abject, conceptualizing a difficult commons between subject and object populated by semiocapital, networked identity, digital culture and other symptoms of modernity.

Curated by Michael Duncan and part of the Getty Foundation's initiative «Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 - 1980,» L.A. RAW: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945 - 1980, From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy is accompanied by a 208 page catalogue, a much - needed reference for the study of post-war American figurative art.