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Examples of abjection in a Sentence
sees the corporate scandal as yet another sign of the general abjection of our society
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But Reeves didn’t embrace abjection the way his wife did.
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Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
Her Roberta is prepared to drown in her own abjection, but Abbott’s Danny keeps throwing himself to her as a lifeline.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
His arc is also, unfortunately — despite some punishingly long sequences in which Safdie channels the character’s abjection — the murkiest.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
What began as a promotional device for a progressive political cause turned into something else: a commodified emblem of Black abjection and white paternalism that would contribute to a growing trend in visual culture.
—New York Times, 10 Mar. 2022
What mattered more was always the creativity and abjection with which the contestants approached his personal challenge: Prove your loyalty through self-betrayal.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
The abjection my mother endured was organized and funded by the city—from the police officers, to the judges, to the reporters who circled our house, hungry to add to their narratives.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 23 Dec. 2022
Conflating agency with activity imposes a kind of autonomy and freedom in the choices made by the enslaved that obfuscates the conditions of subjection and abjection in slavery.
—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
Thanks to the cult of plain honesty, abjection, and sincere appearance, however, they were not portrayed as doing so persuasively, powerfully, beautifully.
—Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022
Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
Her Roberta is prepared to drown in her own abjection, but Abbott’s Danny keeps throwing himself to her as a lifeline.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
His arc is also, unfortunately — despite some punishingly long sequences in which Safdie channels the character’s abjection — the murkiest.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
What began as a promotional device for a progressive political cause turned into something else: a commodified emblem of Black abjection and white paternalism that would contribute to a growing trend in visual culture.
—New York Times, 10 Mar. 2022
What mattered more was always the creativity and abjection with which the contestants approached his personal challenge: Prove your loyalty through self-betrayal.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
The abjection my mother endured was organized and funded by the city—from the police officers, to the judges, to the reporters who circled our house, hungry to add to their narratives.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 23 Dec. 2022
Conflating agency with activity imposes a kind of autonomy and freedom in the choices made by the enslaved that obfuscates the conditions of subjection and abjection in slavery.
—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
Thanks to the cult of plain honesty, abjection, and sincere appearance, however, they were not portrayed as doing so persuasively, powerfully, beautifully.
—Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022
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“Abjection.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abjection. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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