abjection
Example Sentences
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What began as a promotional device for a progressive political cause turned into something else: a commodified emblem of Black abjection and white paternalism that would contribute to a growing trend in visual culture.
From New York Times
The films lean into ambiguity and uncertainty, resisting a binary vision of pure abjection or simple victory.
From New York Times
In the end, there’s something delightfully, fundamentally, and almost quaintly human about these scenes dedicated to our abjection.
From New York Times
In so doing, he is bringing to the front darker, more personal themes — control, abjection, death — that elude social-justice framings and that have concerned him all along.
From New York Times
The word of abjection – regardless of its sordid and tortuous past itinerary – had to be appeased with endless rivers of blood.
From Salon
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