He is also capable of equally disturbing acts of pure, self-abasing masochism. |
Proust was almost uniquely self-abasing, seeming to believe that the nature of friendship demanded that he turn into the most compliant and self-denying of figures. |
In the films the message is women want a ring at all self-abasing costs. |
It depicts success as abject self-abasing obedience followed by a triumphant fuck-you. |
Today's iteration of CSR is less self-abasing and more constructive. |
The American neocons only ever had contempt for this self-abasing style of diplomacy. |