But love that is self-abnegating, all-consuming, and totally erases any kind of independence looks a lot more like domestic violence than fabulous romance, and doormats aren't actually very interesting as protagonists. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The UK Nannystate is so accustomed to making everything “easier” for its citizenry, so in the habit of removing challenges from the lives of the English people, that it cannot understand the concept of purposely doing something difficult, challenging and self-abnegating. ❋ M_francis (2009)
Perhaps, like Diogenes, by abnegating what so many of us desire (fame, riches, recognition, social acceptance), Joaquin is prompting us to examine our values. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In other words, the maverick who offers himself up as a possible leader is either promising to be one of the most self-abnegating and self-disciplined people alive or he's warning you he's going to be a tyrant. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Perhaps, like Diogenes, by abnegating what so many of us desire fame, riches, recognition, social acceptance, Joaquin is prompting us to examine our values. ❋ Ph.D. Pavel Somov (2010)
I, Fenris Badwulf, self-abnegating and least self-aggrandizing servant of You, The People of Mitchieville, wrote this. posted by Fenris Badwulf at 3: 19 AM ❋ Unknown (2008)
The problem is not population, it's development and waste and all the evils of our western, nature-abnegating way of life. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Sometimes, investors and managers take heroic, self-abnegating efforts to stave off bankruptcy and make their debt payments. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I'm not that smart, he says in a typically self-abnegating tone, when asked about the big picture and hard answers to seemingly insurmountable problems. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Doubling over, walking pigeon-toed, coughing, frail, and self-abnegating (he said "I'm sorry" or "Excuse me" to Cavett about a dozen times), this Jimi Hendrix -- the same one I met and interviewed -- was in retrospect not long for this world, the seeming opposite of his image as the super-macho, highly sexual, guitar-burning "rock demigod." ❋ Unknown (2009)
Almost everyone has a utility function that includes status, with the odd abnegating Buddhist monk perhaps as an outlier. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Such a sad notion only applies if one subscribes to various self-abnegating notions such as feminism and sexism ❋ Editorial Anonymous (2009)
Last year was best of all: he played two of the richest roles of his career -- as the self-abnegating butler Stevens in "The Remains of the Day" and as the Oxford don C.S. Lewis in the current "Shadowlands." ❋ Unknown (2008)
But I'm most fascinated by his submissive and self-abnegating relationship with George W. Bush. ❋ Unknown (2008)
And, sir, if you have any hopes that next January 20th will not be celebrated as a day of soul-wrenching, heartfelt thanksgiving, because your faithless stewardship of this presidency will have finally come to a merciful end, this last piece of advice . . . when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead. ❋ Unknown (2008)
She is lured into the self-abnegating realm of Starling's neuro - science lab, which is guided by an extreme behaviorism that denies consciousness itself, and with it free will and morality. ❋ Unknown (2006)
We seem to have descended further and further into the abyss of campaign irrelevancy and untruth, as well as abnegating whatever notion the framers may have had about representational democracy. ❋ Unknown (2008)
