How To Use self-abnegation In A Sentence
- He begins by noting what should be obvious: Given the centrality of freedom of expression "to an academic community, a university's suing a student for libel constitutes a curious act of self-abnegation, rather like the United Way taking a position against charitable giving, or the National Cattlemen's Beef Association urging that all Americans embrace a vegan diet. Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: When Academic Administrators Lose Their Moral Compass
- This self-abnegation from letters of the 1970s should be taken as sincere. The Times Literary Supplement
- Women responded especially strongly to this soulful portrait of grief, self-abnegation and recovery. Times, Sunday Times
- She has therefore an opportunity for exercising in behalf of her dog that beautiful self-abnegation which is said to be a part of woman's nature, impelling her always to prefer that her laurels should be worn by somebody else. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays
- By surrendering your personal will to the whim of the die you are practicing precisely that self-abnegation prescribed in the scriptures. THE DICE MAN
- And so he recedes, through phases of Bob Dylan – esque self-abnegation, while his band pushes forward with its bliss-filled racket. Sing to the Lord a New Song
- In these enthusiasts we shall find striking examples of one of the morbid forces of human nature; yet in candor let us do honor to what was genuine in them, -- that principle of self-abnegation which is the life of true religion, and which is vital no less to the highest forms of heroism. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
- Selflessness also lies at the core of what is essential in a general, for both moral and physical courage derive from self-abnegation.
- Shulamith Firestone deems motherhood “a condition of terminal psychological and social decay, total self-abnegation and physical deterioration.” On Being a Bad Mother
- Basically, after years of self-abnegation, Britain now has an old fashioned tax-and-spend government.
