self-abnegation
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On the contrary, sometimes it unfolds out of the public eye; self-abnegation can be a reliable marker of character.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
Here, Dominik thoroughly undoes that project in a film that not only re-objectifies Monroe but revels in her victimization and self-abnegation.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2022
The close third-person narration of the novel gives readers intimate access to Marianne’s pain and self-abnegation, but some of this gets lost in adaptation.
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2020
But her self-abnegation, far from enabling her work, frustrates the fulfillment of her artistic potential, turning her books into lifeless “intellectual exercises.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2019
True love "is a condition of wishing well to all men, such as commonly characterizes children but is produced in grown men only by self-abnegation."
From Anarchism by Paul Eltzbacher
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