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单词 self-abnegating
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The self-abnegating spectacle of “All” is completely in character with Mr. Cattelan’s well-known ambivalence about himself, his talent and his art, and his oft-cited fascination with failure. Art Review: Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim - Review 2011-11-03T22:20:09Z
But as always in Matisse, you can feel something brewing — a tension, a sense of feeling so heightened that you intuit it will take all of Matisse’s disinterested and self-abnegating intelligence to master. Baltimore loves Matisse. That’s one more reason to love Baltimore. 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z
And they shared a great deal in common: Both Rachel and Don lost their mothers in childbirth, and both understand the painful, self-abnegating process of assimilating into the American mainstream. 'Mad Men' recap: 'The life not lived' 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z
On the contrary, it sounds plucky, self-abnegating and a bit vulnerable. I deserve it because I want it the most. Come on, Sugar! 2010-12-21T19:00:00Z
As Kyra, the self-abnegating teacher of David Hare's "Skylight" in Stephen Daldry's sensationally acted production, Mulligan has a look that suggests her character has forsworn pleasure. Elisabeth Moss, Carey Mulligan share a sensibility on separate stages 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z
It is a layer cake so rich that the self-abnegating Albanian-born nun, whose work with India’s dying poor led to a Nobel Prize during her lifetime and canonization after, would surely never touch it. Review: Mother Teresa Sings, in Drag and With Doubts 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z
Her sins are the sins of loving too much and in too self-abnegating a fashion. Commentary: Richard Gilman, the complicated subject of a new memoir, helped raise the bar for theater criticism 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z
I wish the play would have more fully entertained alternative modes of altruism, giving Clare a glimpse of a less lonely and self-abnegating future. Review: A divine Jordan Hull plays a 13th century saint-meets-Brentwood teen in 'Poor Clare' 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z
On one side, there are flamethrowers who denounce what they consider to be a self-abnegating élite as an existential threat to the German nation. How a German Teen’s Death Has Become a Political Weapon 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z
In this case, the drifter is Josh, a persnickety, self-abnegating student living in Melbourne. The Home-Cooked Pleasures of “Please Like Me” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z
Folksy and eccentric, prone to talking to himself, this self-abnegating old-timer is the eternal sidekick, the hero's reliable right hand and nothing more. 'The Ballad of Lefty Brown' is a dark, brooding Old West tale with a smart modern touch 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z
To Cuddy, Carney’s post seemed so sweeping as to be vague, self-abnegating. When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z
Not for me, the lucky beneficiary of my mother’s quixotic and self-abnegating striving, but for my perpetually impoverished parents. Lessons from My Mother 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z
To wit, the ability to threaten with any specificity tends to be self-abnegating. Cyberattacks Are a Nuisance, Not Terrorism 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z
The altruistic command to “love thy enemy” is a self-abnegating and self-destructive injunction. Objecting to the ‘season of giving’ 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z
"Below the surface, much of Indian society, particularly in the countryside, thinks that Mr Modi's wife is the epitome of the ideal woman: ascetic, self-abnegating, unseen and unheard," she says. Canada passes US in middle-class wealth 2014-04-22T15:46:57Z
And it was Joseph’s self-abnegating sympathy with the purposes of this Supreme God that made him a transparent medium, so that in his presence the Egyptians felt themselves in the presence of God. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z
He discharged his duties in the most faithful and self-abnegating manner until his retirement in 1880, when he had become advanced in years. Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z
The father's ideality was in her a tender religious feeling; the mother's passionate impulse, a self-abnegating affection. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z
Need he, an artist, be more chivalrous—he put it baldly—more conventional and self-abnegating than other men? Love's Usuries
In this connection, we must mention a princely woman whose self-abnegating virtue rises well-nigh to the superhuman: Elizabeth of Thuringia. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10)
A surge of self-abnegating, celestial love, mingled with divine pity, filled the hunchback’s soul. Orphans of the Storm
The fascination of her self-abnegating thought held her, and she drifted on to more personal details. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country
Such delicate pathos and tender joy, such pure conception of life's realities, and such loftiness of self-abnegating love! Hetty's Strange History
Her face gave him as much credit as though he had done some fine self-abnegating deed. The Convert
She was one of that community of self-abnegating women, who, bound by holy vows, devote their lives to the care of the suffering, and are the most skilful, tender, and zealous nurses that France affords. Fairy Fingers A Novel
There might be some satisfaction in denying one's self a pleasure if one felt one were independent, and that what one did was self-abnegating and laudable. The Governess
A true and pure character, feeling its inferiority and anxious to advance, cannot long remain in the background; it has sufficient stamina to attain the height of self-abnegating greatness. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Joseph Tipps, having got leave of absence for an evening, was also there,—modest amiable, active and self-abnegating. The Iron Horse
He would be running from the evidences of a moneyless, self-abnegating youth, from the plain surfaces of efficiency and womanliness, not hedged about and enfolded, but pushed to the extremity of its use. The Lovely Lady
Had she been warned in a dream, she could have compassed no surer method of reducing his pride than this self-abnegating generosity. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
If woman is generally the object to whom this affection attaches, it is not because she is woman, but because she is purer, lovelier, more self-abnegating, a clearer mirror of divinity. The Friendships of Women
Thus the humble and self-abnegating Anselm, who had kept the commandments and loved his Maker, passed in glory to the Saints of Power. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Joseph is a pattern of self-abnegating submission, and an example of its rewards. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII
I have not the grand self-abnegating spirit necessary for such a work. Not Pretty, but Precious
He shook in a self-abnegating way, as one who shook for Tellson and Co. A Tale of Two Cities
This ideal appropriation of love, to engender self-abnegating valor and beneficent deeds, originated from the meeting of the two currents of martial history and the Christian religion in a prepared people and period. The Friendships of Women
She felt that the country needed a great central figure capable of inspiring confidence and banishing uncertainty, a strong, well-balanced, broad-minded, self-abnegating chief executive, and she proposed to furnish one. Court Life in China
The old fellow's voice was strangely balanced between pathos and a peculiar self-abnegating humour. The Slave of the Lamp
The Greek thinkers furnish the first instance of intellectual freedom, of the "self-detachment and self-abnegating vigor of criticism" which is most touchingly illustrated in the honest "know-nothingism" of Socrates. The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform
"So I up and saddled the bronc' and lit out for home," concluded the narrator with the air of one justly proud of his own self-abnegating virtue. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches
There was a slight touch of consciousness in his voice in spite of its sadness, which struck the young girl as a weak and even ungentlemanly note in his otherwise self-abnegating and undemonstrative attitude. A Sappho of Green Springs
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