| 11. | Hoffman has always reserved a special intensity for parts that require a grimy self-abasement.
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| 12. | The Quran requires their " abasement and poverty " in the form of the poll tax jizya.
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| 13. | He has no thoughts of pride but with self-abasement knows the Way to the end.
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| 14. | Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms has an uplifting entry on " abasement ."
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| 15. | She wins her Prince Charming through a groveling self-abasement that may or may not signify her moral superiority.
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| 16. | Rieff quotes a friend, " they are going to give self-abasement a bad name ."
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| 17. | And that will be his punishment, not the release of the noose or of public abasement in prison ."
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| 18. | I considered performing acts of contrition and self-abasement on the lawn outside the office, next to the fountain.
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| 19. | The decline began with glue-sniffing and led to a labyrinth of abasement, malicious mischief and teen-age ecstasy.
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| 20. | Isn't it bad enough to stand there with your tush hanging out, without the added first-name abasement?
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