Sentences with phrase «from abject»

Instead, it seems bent on distracting the public from its abject failures with empty gestures.

It should have been clear from the abject failure of AP6 that this would not fly once the other main players got wind of it.

In «Traces of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the LA River» Calame has made a conceptual shift from the abject and everyday to the mechanical spectacle of the Speedway.

Often framed by double - edged terms such as bad taste, irony, or contamination, Oehlen's work slides deftly from the abject to the impressive.

In contemporary popular culture, the mutating body of fable reappears in myriad guises, which run the gamut from the abject to the exalted.

At the same time psychologizing and seduced by her subject, the artist finds herself in a double bind, a dilemma that resonates with the muddled desire that animates her protagonist as he drifts from abject rants to declamations of heroic poetry or unashamed self - praise.

Avoid the former show if you want to keep away from abject, base subject matter — McCarthy has made his career our exposing erotic, profane and damn dirty desires, and his new paintings push all boundaries of taste imaginable... I wonder what image our picture editor is going to choose for this page?

The last decade has witnessed a steady increase in artists drawing with the pen, using approaches from the abject to the sublime.

With deadpan drollery, LaDuke raced through a gamut of concerns, from abject life to brutish death, presenting images of paintings that veered from the photorealistic to the abstract and of extraordinarily painstaking, lifelike sculptures.

Tragically, Monet's first wife Camille who bore him two sons died at the age of thirty - two in 1879 while the family suffered from abject poverty.

The Los Angeles artist shifted styles, mediums and techniques frequently, creating an eclectic body of work that ranges from abject latex sculptures to copies of Old Master paintings.

I like how in the span of two years Inkopolis went from abject horror at the thought of other sea - life being cannibalized to «Y» know, Sean's relatives are actually pretty tasty.»

Naturally feelings run the gamut from abject shame to pride to indifference.

Get on Up (PG - 13 for sexuality, drug use, profanity and violence) Chad Boseman portrays James Brown in the biopic chronicling the Godfather of Soul's rise from abject poverty to the heights of superstardom.

George Canon, the Newcomb supervisor who rose from abject poverty to take a leading role in shaping policy in the Adirondack Park, was laid to rest on Saturday.

Speaking on the success recorded so far, President Buhari described the scheme as an helping hand initiative designed to liberate the nation from abject poverty and hunger.

George Canon, the Newcomb supervisor who rose from abject poverty to take a leading role in shaping policy in the Adirondack Park and was known as «Mr. Adirondack,» was laid to rest on Saturday.

China is either the greatest success story in lifting its population from abject poverty, or simply an authoritarian regime.

LVG has grown on me a very tiny bit since he came to the PL; from abject loathing to actually you can be quite amusing sometime.

Football for most people was a temporary escape from abject poverty, filth and hoplessness.

This reassessment should pay respect to the empirical reality, that is, on the one hand, the unmitigated disaster of socialism everywhere» economically, politically, and in a monstrous aggregate of human suffering» and, on the other hand, the relative capacity of democratic capitalism to lift large masses of people from abject poverty to decent levels of material life and to provide political regimes that establish respect for elementary human rights.

Extreme wealth and fame exist just miles from abject poverty, despair, drugs and murder.

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:

Not exact matches

From an investing perspective, getting completely wiped out and thinking it was the end of the world, and thinking I was an abject failure, and this investing thing wasn't for me.

But such folly is recorded in the OT Israelites whose greed drove them to give up their relatively egalitarian social system and to emulate the neighboring Amorites with their disparities from fabulous wealth to abject poverty.

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.

These people have been living in abject poverty right under our nose — less than 700 miles from our shore.

If the Crucifixion does not express and embody a decisive self - transformation of God, then at most it can only give a guilty humanity a temporary respite from the sovereign power of the transcendent Creator, while at worst it can seal a fallen humanity in its abject state of powerlessness and self - abasement, totally repressing every tendency to movement and life.

Trading legalism for pietism is really no improvement, we are no longer under the power of the law, and no longer slaves to sin, we still can and do fall short of perfection, in fact, Romans 7 gives us a pretty clear picture of the kind of abject failure that results from trying to live a pious life under our own power.

The Church of England has branded Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement as «extreme carelessness» signifying an «abject failure of leadership».

The years - worth of free rice from USAID and the UN after the earthquake put an entire region of Haitian rice farmers out of work, driving their families into abject poverty, and now their children are vulnerable to child trafficking.

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.

But because of how quiet Douglas Costa was on the right, and the abject failure of Rodrigo Betancur to give Juventus any attacking element from central midfield — that Pjanic suspension really hurt them here — Juve couldn't do anything to take advantage of

Here, then, are five more — well, technically at least seven more — triples, quadruples and quintuples from the long and proud European Cup / Champions League tradition of abject humiliation multiple goalscoring.

Some of his stars performed better than others, but on the whole it was an abject display from the Red Devils.

No amount of positive thinking from fans will change that state of affairs and to think otherwise just allows the delusional one to make endless excuses for his own abject failure... And it's not all abou the money there is not one player I can honestly say has improved under wenger in the last 10 years... Fabregas was the last and he joined us 15 years ago!!!

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.

It was a sound thrashing of an abject opposition as the Reds were rampant in taking home the bragging rights from the derby and some more.

A 2014 summer move from Torino to Atletico was an abject failure and he was shipped out on loan to AC Milan the following January before returning a year later and being shipped out yet again, this time to Genoa.

However, if it wasn't for some abject finishing from Leeds» attacking players it could have been a different story.

Moreover in the interests of dismissing potential criticism that this article is, no matter how much I may deny it, merely a backlash from the Swansea defeat, I will finally make the point that the premise of the article was conceived in early January and thus can not be considered an immediate response to Liverpool's abject display at Swansea.

An abject performance from all three players this afternoon in terms of a Spurs perspective.

Hernandez, scored a consolation goal in the extra-time; perhaps a bright spot in an abject performance from the League Leaders.

Embed from Getty Images Despite missing key players like Laurent Koscielny, Santi Cazorla, Danny Welbeck and the goal machine Alexis Sanchez, Arsenal were in fine form as they thrashed an abject Galatasaray side 4 - 1 in Istanbul on Tuesday night.

United's 4 -3-3 against Benfica in the Europa League is a particularly telling example of an abject failure from ill - implemented playing systems.

The hosts races into a two goal advantage inside twenty minutes thanks to strikes from Michu and Angel Rangel during an abject first - half QPR performance that saw the visitors fail to register a single shot on or off target.

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.

But, if we may also add, the privileged world of the corrupt politician needs no love from the poor masses, as the richly lived and living experiences of the corrupt politician is not an academic question, much the same way we might ascribe «life is a dream» to the abject conditionalities of the poor masses.

I am going to disappoint the Tories — we will not set out our plans for 2015 - 16 this year, however much you want us to, in order to divert political attention from your own abject economic failure.

Whichever way you look at it, the discovery and killing of Osama bin Laden in a comfortable house in Abbottabad within walking distance of Kakul (Pakistan Military Academy) and a short drive from the nation's capital Islamabad, constitutes an abject humiliation for Pakistan.