Sentences with phrase «with abject»

You had a deadly combination of a long drought which dried everything to a perfect kind of kindling, coupled with the abject stupidity of not allowing any preventative measures like controlled burns to rid the underbrush, or other various clearing measures.

But Banks also happens to have been one of the reviewers of the Wegman report, which stands as an eternal monument to the dangers of combining knowledge of statistical methods with abject subject matter ignorance (not to mention highly dubious scholarship).

Tenebrism implies and enacts a level of glorification of the depicted subject much at odds with the abject of Brierley's figures; this contrast stands at the core of her work's inescapable bathos.

But this exhibition is designed to consider Overby's contribution in its totality, comprising both his sculptures, with their abject materiality, and his more painterly and graphic

A lively question - and - answer period is not only anticipated but required, lest the speakers return to New York with an abject sense of failure.

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.

No wonder — he was dealing with abject poverty, but this privileged Westerner on a three - month jaunt in Southeast Asia shed tears over these (admittedly impressive) ancient stone buildings, which he got to see every day.

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

The methodology isn't perfect, and the history of science is riddled with abject failures of scientific objectivity.

Although I'll admit the reveal of a 30 minute time frame to file a review filled me with abject horror.

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.

They are a mediocre club gaming the system and are unworthy of the respect of the true soldiers in the trenches giving their all every week in rain and mud.Their primitive accumulation of Uefa titles (of whatever name) coupled with abject domestic failure is a farce and just another in a long list of stat padding scams brewed in the bernabeu; a la madrid!

We will lose sponsors as I doubt the TV people will want to cover us any longer with this abject rubbish

While the Chilean international has now registered 14 goals and 12 assists in 23 appearances in all competitions, his teammates has come under heavy criticism over the last week or so with abject performances against Everton and Manchester City.

And I tell you honestly, I prayed to Jesus in complete sincerity and with abject submission.

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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.

instead of allowing children to be born into abject poverty and instead of allowing kids with down syndrome to be born into the homes of junkies and illiterates, we can abort the children OR every person who shows up at an anti abortion rally gets a free baby to take home and raise.

What happened to Julie — the gaslightingⁱ, the disinformation campaign, the abject nonsense of legal marriage vs spiritual marriage — with the full participation of key EV leaders, strongly states the converse.

Those who pray with Jesus share his abject sense of ultimate human helplessness and dependence.

He is, to be sure, abject; but he doesn't puff himself up with self - loathing, as the Pharisee puffs himself up with self - esteem.

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

Imagine with what groans of regret the original disciples kept recalling their abject failure to keep their pledge to remain faithful to Jesus no matter what (Mark 14:27 - 31).

Not surprising, it has taken the Church a long time to develop a critical and prophetic theology with which to confront the social evils and oppression which have condemned the majority of the human family to abject poverty and dehumanizing life.

This moving episode between Moses and the Word moreover has the quality of psychological and emotional authenticity; its vastly strengthened language of protest is an appropriate response to Moses» apparently abject failure in his preliminary meetings with Pharaoh and with Israel's representative foremen.

It is a form of obedience (as Paul notes in the frame of Romans with his phrase «the obedience of faith») but it is not any form of abject credulity — yet if we metaphorically learn how to be abject (falling at the feet of the Beloved) we will not be disappointed.

According to a key supply manager with one of Australia's biggest pharmacy chains, the release of Blackmores infant formula has been an «abject failure» with consumers.

I would not worry too much if I were you though, because I think that as long as Arsenal do not turn up with the sort of abject showing we saw against Crystal Palace or Watford then we should be alright, and I very much doubt that the players are ready to slack off at the minute.

I would put money on the eleven which won well on Thursday to beat the abject team which was fortunate to draw with Southhampton.The back three today were at best poor.

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.

As I mentioned earlier, Rosicky and Nasri were particularly abject and with Nicklas Bendtner and Robin van Persie out for a little while yet they will need to pull their finger out.

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.

But then the Manager alone can not be responsible held responsible for the absolute abject recklessness of a Keeper who is considered to be good with his passing.

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.

The Canaries have only won eight games in the league all season, and probably didn't expect to walk away with a 2 - 1 win at Old Trafford back in December, but United were abject that day.

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.

Everton continued their abject home form with an eighth league defeat at Goodison Park, as an FA Cup semi-final looms like a lone beacon of hope amidst a season to forget.

The parents were of course in an abject panic when they saw the train leave with their baby on it, but everything turned out OK in the end.

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.

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.

We were given the opportunity to adopt the AV system in a 2011 referendum, yet it was decisively rejected, with 68 % of voters opting for No on a 42 % turnout, in part the result of the abject failure of electoral reform advocates to craft a convincing case in favour of change.

Well, it is absolutely none of my business to desire to enquire as to when and why Mr. Banda fell out of friendship with Nana Akufo - Addo; what is definitely my business, as a critically thinking journalist, is to demand, as a matter of fairness and social justice, that Alhaji Banda provide specific and intimate examples of what he claims to be his old friend's abject lack of wisdom, or talent, in bringing people together or uniting the rank - and - file membership of the country's largest liberal - democratic and progressive political organization.

Insiders speak of abject chaos in the leader's office, with his chief spokesperson Seumas Milne singled out as being the major roadblock to any significant improvement.

Shortly afterwards, in spite of polling an abject 15.7 % in the European elections, and with four cabinet ministers departing, Labour chose to hug Mr Brown close.

«Gov. Cuomo's administration is embroiled in corruption at the highest levels, his signature economic development projects are abject failures, and he's at war with the Legislature after his attempted bribe (for a pay raise) didn't work,» Proud said.

The reason that so many of us have been critical in the past lies in the fact that (i) Brown still gets away with his own opinion of himself as chancellor (when he should have resigned because of abject failure) and (ii) the tories had no prompt and coherent strategy to deal with the recent economic disasters as they unfolded.

It, frankly, is a disaster across the board and it's pretty rare when you get parents, you get students, you get school boards, and you get government officials lining up with teachers unions and others to say, «we just need to admit this is a abject failure,»» said Republican Congressmen Chris Collins.

It, frankly, is a disaster across the board and it's pretty rare when you get parents, you get students, you get school boards, and you get government officials lining up with teachers unions and others to say, «we just need to admit this is a abject failure,»» said Rep. Chris Collins, a Republican from western New York.

Responding to the Autumn Statement, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said it placed on record the «abject failure of the last six wasted years» with growth and deficit targets slashed.

I still went with a group of friends, and in what felt like both abject humiliation and youthful defiance, brought a blow up parrot as my «date.»

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.