English vocabulary examples in context: abasement
Vocabulary in context: abasement -- Example 1.
The echo of the scream had not ceased to ring on the air when there came the reaction, and she sank on her knees on the floor in an agony of abasement.
Vocabulary in context: abasement -- Example 2.
I have no sense of proportion, I know; my words and gestures do not express my ideas--they are a humiliation and abasement of the ideas, and therefore, I have no right--and I am too sensitive.
Vocabulary in context: abasement -- Example 3.
The nuns even prefer, out of humility, this last expression, which contains an idea of torture and abasement.
Vocabulary in context: abasement -- Example 4.
The frightful leveller from below, shame, had passed over these brows; at that degree of abasement, the last transformations were suffered by all in their extremest depths, and ignorance, converted into dulness, was the equal of intelligence converted into despair.
Vocabulary in context: abasement -- Example 5.
There exists, at the extremity of all abasement and all misfortunes, a last misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict with the whole mass of fortunate facts and reigning rights; a fearful conflict, where, now cunning, now violent, unhealthy and ferocious at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks through vice, and with club-blows through crime.
Vocabulary in context: abasement -- Example 6.
I have nearly died of distress of soul at the sight of you and your poverty, as well as at the sight of myself and my abasement and helplessness.
Vocabulary in context: abasement -- Example 7.
For the first time since he had arrived at the age of reflection, he felt his heart vaguely contracted by a sense of his baseness, and of that which we nowadays call abasement.
Vocabulary in context: abasement -- Example 8.
'Of course,' he muttered to himself a minute later with a feeling of self-abasement, 'of course, all these infamies can never be wiped out or smoothed over ...'
Vocabulary in context: abasement -- Example 9.
'All is over for me,' she replied with shame and self-abasement.
