How To Use self-abasement In A Sentence
- The result was a lengthy and noisy competition in self-abasement and mutual re-assurance.
- The failing to do this is the greatest mistake of the present generation, for if girls be capable of nothing but morbid sentiment or what we term flirtation, they will naturally look to matrimony as their destiny and as a means of support -- a self-abasement from which no woman can fully recover, even under the most favorable circumstances. How to Train Girls.
- From clinical examinations, most NE children suffer from mental problems such as depression, self-abasement and difficulties in dealing with personal relations.
- To beg for votes, as if they were alms or broken victuals, is a form of mendicancy which is incompatible with common self-respect, and yet it is a self-abasement which thirty years ago custom imperatively demanded. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography
- Appeasement and compromise will turn enemies into friends, if groveling and self-abasement do not first drive friends into the enemy camp. Farewell to America's China Station
- The self-abasement, you'll have noticed, is rhetorical.
- Audacity often brought rewards; self-abasement seldom did. Red dust
- If Gervais has the biggest head in comedy, Merchant now establishes himself as the king of self-abasement. Stephen Merchant: Hello Ladies – review
- They incorrectly insist on self-abasement, worship of angels, and the centrality of visions.
- It was as if they wanted to punish me for not falling over in praise of the self-abasement they wanted me to portray as their muse, or something. Roseanne Archy
