I'd bluntly propositioned her after abasing myself in front of the World Bank consultant.
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Bess becomes convinced that by abasing herself to the point of death she will cure him.
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Republicans will, led by the pro-Trump intelligentsia that has spent the past 18 months abasing itself so it could normalize him.
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Before the company, she reiterated the ballet's gesture of amorous veneration, making her arms a halo that she drew over his head, shoulders, torso, and legs, abasing herself at his feet.
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How easily she could picture Oliver abasing himself before this girl by talking about that little out-of-the-way shop, how he'd known the owner for thirty years since his days as a foreign correspondent.
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Readily abasing herself in the name of love, she pops up unannounced at Hugo's studio, sends him lengthy text messages on the nature of desire, and circles the same block twice so that she will bump into him—Oh, hello!
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But I think our hope of becoming better people — whether in respect of religion, friendship or justice, or in any number of different ways — rests on the possibility that there is a more straightforward and less self-abasing way to try to believe.
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The lyrics in Mitski's songs often project a paradoxical attitude that I associate with a specific type of millennial-feminist art— Sally Rooney novels come to mind—in which female strength takes the form of defiantly displaying a full range of roiling emotions, including self-abasing or submissive ones.
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President Trump reserves some of his worst behavior for foreign trips, such as abasing himself before President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Helsinki a year ago, skipping a ceremony in France last fall to honor American soldiers killed in World War I (too rainy, the White House said) and insulting the mayor of London earlier this month.
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A storm rages outside, branches smashing through the windows and skylight, a sound of owls and eagles pressing in on them. Feathers swirl in the room and trace owl patterns on the walls and ceiling. Roger is desperate, abasing himself before Gwyn, but to no avail. "It is always owls, over and over and over," says Huw.
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"Un nou trădător de neam", in Românul (Arad), Nr. 65/1914, pp. 5–6 During a Diet session on June 14, Onciul clashed with the nationalist deputy Țurcan, hitting him with a clot of blotting paper.Gafița (2006), p. 120 As Onciul put it at the time: > the squires' gazettes and the priests have this practice of wailing and > grumbling against the Empire and of abasing [the Empire] in Romania's eyes.
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The poem's biting satire obviously overtly attacks Dr. Swift and his writings. It also actively accuses Swift of misogyny and sexism. Swift's poem was highly invasive as it chronicles the unwanted entry of a man into a lady's dressing room where he sees the woman no longer as an elevated goddess, but as a normal human being with normal bodily functions. In his poem he attacks womankind, abasing them as vile and disgusting creatures.
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The 2014 Asian Games opening ceremony was criticised by local media for featuring more celebrities and K-pop stars than sports figures, failing to display the legacy of the event or Incheon city's culture and abasing the sports stars' presence at the event. Despite executive director Jang Jin's promise that the main characters ― Jang Dong-gun and Kim Soo-hyun would have the roles of storytellers, their presence was overshadowed by the performances of boy band JYJ and singer Psy.
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People said that the "tell-too-much autobio reveals that beneath the weird makeup, noisy music and parent-enraging act beats the heart of...a boring guy from Ohio." Retrospective reviews were more positive. Greg Burk of LA Weekly said that the book stood as "the most self- abasing and funny piece of rock mythology ever written." Emily Barker of NME deemed The Long Hard Road Out of Hell one of the "juciest" rock star memoirs of all time and praised it for being revealing.
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He died on 24 June 1634, aged 57, in London and was buried in the Middle Temple Church. Tombs at that time often started with the formulaic "Memoriae Sacrum" ("Sacred to the memory") followed by the name of the tomb's occupant and an account of their achievements even though such words are hubristic and a contradiction to the Christian virtues of modesty. According to Anthony à Wood John Marston's tomb stone bore the legend "Oblivioni Sacrum" ("Sacred to Oblivion"), which was probably composed by Marston, and, according to Joshua Scodel, the short "epitaph is thus both self-abasing and witty in its novel inversion of tradition".
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