Sentences with phrase «even abject»

Degas, on the contrary, emphasized the grotesque, even abject aspect of the naked body.

Not exact matches

What one can learn in even a short visit to most Latin American countries is that there is no necessity for the abject poverty one sees.

So when news broke today about Target's abject and utter failure to expand into Canada, I began to think this morning about how church planters to Canada (or even within Canada) can learn from the Target failure.

In its contemporary form, it forces the majority of the human race into strategies for abject survival, denying tens of millions of people even the right to live.

it shows that even with our commander in chief going to Cairo in an abject subservient manner, nothing will change in the Muslim world.

I even briefly counted how many days (poor me) of sleeping, sunning and abject laziness I had left before I could get back in my kitchen and have at it.

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.

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.

I continued to watch throughout in the hope that I would be wrong, but despite equalising late in the first half, and going in level at half time, I just could not be my usual optimistic self, and my fears came to fruition with a second half performance even more abject than the first, and that takes some doing.

In many ways, that sombre evening at Anfield when a Branislav Ivanovic - inspired Chelsea ran out 3 - 1 victors in the first leg of that quarterfinal was the start of a spectacular decline that has seen the club on the verge of administration, one sensational title challenge, one abject Champions League campaign and a whole lot of crests and troughs.

It might be pointless to ponder such what ifs, but such was the effectiveness of the Scottish international at that time, he could well have ensured United put up more of a fight than the abject surrender witnessed on that forlorn evening under the Italian stars.

That will also signify United's decline and a fourth year of failure, even after the arrivals of Eric Bailly, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Paul Pogba, which could be classed as abject failure.

Nobody is immune to the abject fear and terror that is leaving your baby with somebody else, and Reynolds Tweet sums it up perfectly, even if he didn't, as I suspect, actually drop her off at Burning Man.

And there's something unsavoury about simply being a viewer who makes it all the way to the end - credits scroll, having consumed so much abject horror as an evening's entertainment.

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.

Even if the setup of these two losers pitted over one goddess is a bit rote, when Reilly is given space (and the Duplass Brothers are good at giving their actors space), he's capable of exuding an abject sweetness that carries a scene.

One can even say that it is underlying disdain for the very kids in his district that is a critical reason why he is such an abject failure as a school leader: If you don't care for kids, you can not do the hard work of transforming the quality of instruction, curricula and leadership that is needed to give kids cultures of genius in which to succeed.

Ms. WIlliams was responding to a comment Rubin made to a reporter: «people in abject poverty,» said Rubin, «don't have the bandwidth to even evaluate charter schools... It's just not going to be high on their list.»

FACT: Trap, Neuter, & Release (TNR) is an even bigger abject failure because these man - made ecological disasters can not be trapped faster than they exponentially breed out of control, and they also continue the cruelly annihilate all native wildlife (from the smallest of prey up to the top predators that are starved to death), and the cats continue to spread many deadly diseases that they carry today — FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO VACCINES AGAINST THEM.

FACT: Trap, Neuter, & Re-Abandon (TNR) is an even bigger abject failure because these man - made ecological disasters can not be trapped faster than they exponentially breed out of control, and they also continue to cruelly annihilate all native wildlife (from the smallest of prey up to the top predators that are starved to death), and the cats continue to spread many deadly diseases that they carry today — FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO VACCINES AGAINST THEM.

The brilliance, and at times abject parody, not to mention the quality of the designs, art, music, even the dialog (dialog in a retro collection?

He is performing a kind of abject penance that is hard to dismiss, even if you may initially want to; it is too quiet, unsettling and self - effacing.

Second, I was infatuated with the Russian Constructivists and how they developed forms to serve revolutionary politics — abstract designs that projected enthusiasm, progress, affirmation, even joy, as opposed to the abject imagery of, say, the German Expressionists.

As with all juried shows, this year's annual Utah Ties exhibition is an inconsistent mixed bag — some works evoke the grotesque and the abject, while others are quietly beautiful and even majestic.

Even if the forms were grisly and abject, it was willed, real and emotionally honest.

even as the president claims he is now laser - focused on job creation, he wants the public to forget all of his previous taxpayer - funded efforts to create those «green jobs» of the future, many of which have been abject failures.

WHEREAS Skeeter Jones, good and gentle Labrador, attended faithfully with Ms. Amy Jones all prescribed Baylor Law School classes, dog - day in and dog - day out, until completion; WHEREAS he showed uncommon bravery in yawning loudly in abject dog - boredom during a certain lecture of Professor Jeremy Counseller, caring but little for the intricacies of removal and remand; WHEREAS he successfully begged for donuts from Professor David Guinn, having been unfairly tempted by the hi - jinks of the latter; WHEREAS Good Dog Skeeter completed the Practice Court program without being called upon once or reading nary a case, all knowing that a snarl would rebuff any such intrusion; WHEREAS he is now an older, wiser and even a bit fatter dog; WHEREAS those who survive Baylor Law School are entitled to all barking rights, entitlements and appurtenances thereto; THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY DECREED that Baylor University School of Law confers upon Skeeter the Labrador this

The best route for a poor writer (and I'm sorry to have to say this, but an awful lot of lawyers struggle to even write passably — another abject failure of law schools and bar examiners, for passing these poor souls) is to take an introductory composition class that will give one the ability to parse sentences so as to know if they are grammatically correct.