Sentences with phrase «most abject»

Thus are we receiving supplies from one party and witnessing the most abject poverty in another but it is perfectly consistent with the nature of the country that it being not at all uncommon for one set of Indians to be absolutely starving while another party at the distance of 40 miles are living in the utmost profusion.

However, most of this work springs from an expressionistically freeform compositional approach which, in the case of Martin, was unabashedly influenced by the vernacular forms of black Southern artists like Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley, who had little choice but to employ the most abject of materials.

Using bodies in their most abject and raw forms, the great painter orchestrated a highly personal, yet captivatingly universal visual aura with right doses of social commentary on religion, womanhood, and labor.

The difference I see with reality TV is that so much of it seems to be about humiliation, about showing people at their smallest and meanest, their lowest and most abject.

It's a miracle, a golem, capable of illuminating the rawest humanity in one stroke and of exhuming the most abject failure of human impulse in the very next.

The most abject performance, though, came from Damian Green, the Conservative work and pensions secretary.

Many MPs were understandably annoyed that the leader had hired a man who recently celebrated Ed Balls losing his seat and described the Labour front bench as «the most abject collection of complete shite».

(26) The chieftains of his folk, who disbelieved, said: We see thee but a mortal like us, and we see not that any follow thee save the most abject among us, without reflection.

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However, for most who foray into its pseudonymous depths, an abject lack of information regarding «trusted» sites presents itself.

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.

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.

Just because your god enjoys torturing most of his creation in a fire pit for all eternity doesn't mean we should follow his example and force people to live their entire lives in abject poverty, disease, and pain..

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

That is not the whole story either, as the manner of our loss to Liverpool was so abject that most Arsenal fans are feeling anything but positive about the new season.

There are many reasons why we haven't been able to create sustainable industrialization with the most notorious been the abject shortfall in electricity supply.

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

Most of all they reflect the abject failure of the policies of the White House and Number 10 towards Iraq.

We can not continue to die like chicken whilst our wives and children wallow in abject poverty and most at times, the education of deceased police officers children truncates.

Nevertheless, diesel cooking remains significantly more lucrative than subsistence farming and fishing, and most assume these risks to lift their families out of abject poverty.

Though infused with impressive bursts of style, Johannes Roberts» 47 Meters Down is, for the most part, a disappointingly generic offering that contains few elements designed to capture and sustain one's interest - with the film's less - than - captivating opening stretch, which establishes the somewhat one - dimensional protagonists, unable to cultivate the atmosphere of abject suspense that director Johannes Roberts is clearly striving for.

The most powerful message that comes through, however, is of abject pessimism about the chance of conciliation.

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.

As in The Meyerowitz Stories, Baumbach's work is most insightful when characters perform an ugly tightrope walk between fashioning themselves as triumphant rebels and having to confront their own abject state of being.

Mad Max: Fury Road is the most creative film of 2015 and the most watchable film of 2015, gleeful and balletic in its violence, but its heart and depth (and Miller's abject refusal to weigh it down with unnecessary exposition) give it the staying power that elevates it to the upper echelon of cinema.

The heated rhetoric is especially disappointing because it reveals an abject refusal to tackle the most important issue, ensuring that every California student goes to a great school and has a great teacher.

«The heated rhetoric... is especially disappointing because it reveals an abject refusal to tackle the most important issue: ensuring that every California student goes to a great school and has a great teacher,» said the spokeswoman, Jessica Ng.

Some come from lives of abject poverty; some have fled the maelstrom of Partition with only what they could carry; some witness the violent deaths of those they hold most dear.

Visitors may like to revel in the absurdity and abject cheesiness of one of the most fun television events in history.

After all, for every genuine success — Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva, for instance — there are a dozen abject failures: Doom, Mortal Kombat, D.O.A, Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Street Fighter, Silent Hill, and, perhaps most famously, Super Mario Bros..

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

The game plays like a movie that incorporates moments of gun fights, intertwined with some of the most pointless, abject QTE (quick time events) I've experienced in video games.

Altmejd's work makes evident how growth and transformation is only possible from decay and how a sense of a work being alive is perceived most fully when beauty is contrasted with the abject.

Artist Molly Soda, one of the most recognizable names in internet - based practices, joins Humor and the Abject this week.

It's more often the beneficiary of implicit or explicit government subsidies to make it more affordable for the coal industry to operate (the land is practically given to them for free, they get tax expenditures hand over fist, their roads are most often built for them by the state, they're exempted from waste - disposal regulations, allowed to dump and run, and use some of the most tyrannical and abject labor standards in the world).