Katherine Boo

There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abject conditions. Maybe there are some things at work in deciding who gets to be society's winners and who gets to be society's losers that don't have to do with merit.

American Journalist

Sanjeev Bhaskar

Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for 'Spamalot' and seeing all these much younger, much fitter people, who I was going to be on stage with, became a catalyst for cutting out the more unhealthy aspects of my life.

British Comedian

Tycho

I had big problems with stage fright in the past. I think, slowly, as I've gotten better at it, I've started to enjoy it. It's made me a more confident person in my normal life. I can open up and be myself in situations that used to be abject terror.

American Artist

Rex Tillerson

There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung.

American Businessman

Ben Carson

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

American Scientist

Berkeley Breathed

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

American Cartoonist

Muhammad Yunus

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

Economist

Baruch Spinoza

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Dutch Philosopher

Viola Davis

When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

American Actress

Geoffrey Canada

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

American Activist

Use 'abject' to describe situations that are extremely bad and upsetting.

Extreme Situations

'Abject' often carries an emotional charge that highlights the severity of a situation.

Emotional Weight

Be careful to not overuse 'abject' as it's strong; applicable to truly harsh conditions.

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Use 'abject' when someone is so humbled they lose self-respect.

Loss of Dignity

'Abject' implies total defeat or giving up, without any resistance.

Complete Surrender

It's used when someone is being exceptionally humble, often more than necessary.

Emphasize Humility

 Now, for many years, I thought this was a story of abject failure, but today I see it differently, because when I was attempting the world record, I was doing three things. I was getting outside my comfort zone, I was calling upon my resilience,

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 you'll eat all of the little twigs and then try and strip the brach off and you know that tree must be sitting there in abject terror focus is an elephant about to take a lil back hello my dear she's the mother of the very brave one that

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 I realized that I had been so immersed in the media coverage of Mexicans that they had become one thing in my mind, the abject immigrant. I had bought into the single story of Mexicans and I could not have been more ashamed of myself.

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 And I saw how splendor can illuminate even the most abject vulnerabilities. During these 10 years, I had witnessed and learned the terrifying joy of unbearable responsibility, and I had come to see how it conquers everything else.

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 to hire an astrologer to warn them when they're gonna have bad days ahead there's been mockery made of her as a result of that decision and the control that she sort of seized in the the abject and determined protection of her

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 family and some guy her dad once did business with and they'll vow that nothing not abject poverty not life-threatening illness not complete and utter misery will ever put the tiniest damper on their eternal love and

What you don't know...

 the world is looking at Africa in a completely contradictory way. On one side, it wants us to grow, to emerge from abject poverty, to build a middle class, to own cars and air conditioners and other modern amenities

The energy Africa needs...

 economy economics it's women like this who are critical in rural and rural African communities as they create space for international partners to come in and bring Africa out of abject poverty

Images of strength and...

 and some guy her dad once did business with, and they'll vow that nothing -- not abject poverty, not life-threatening illness, not complete and utter misery --

 one looking forward to see what I see I'm one looking backwards of my face and I'll be seeing looks at abject terror I'm climbing all covered with brine

Abject

Being at a very bad or low level, often in a way that causes sadness or fear.

Often appears as...

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Completely without pride or dignity.

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Extreme Situations

Emotional Weight

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