How to Use abnegation in a Sentence

abnegation

noun

• Faye’s absence reads like the self-abnegation of a soul trying to atone for something.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 15 June 2018
• In his telling, Klara’s self-abnegation feels both ennobling and tragic.
  — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2021
• Chris Ware has a deadpan self-abnegation that is, by all accounts, genuine.
  — Jason Lutes, The New York Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2019
• In Austen’s work, romantic union is seen not as the pragmatic abnegation of the self, but rather as the hopeful realization of it.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 17 July 2017
• Those works stand at the extreme of a consecrated self-abnegation that governs all her art.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• For others, a drink is a way to rebel against a culture in which good parenting is synonymous with self-abnegation.
  — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 1 Nov. 2017
• The recent debt-ceiling crisis was a complete abnegation of fact.
  — Pete Brook, WIRED, 2 Sep. 2011
• In an unusual act of self-abnegation, politicians ceded power to the technocrats as the only way to stop themselves from printing money.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 12 July 2019
• Her thinking is already programmed for self-sacrifice; the self-abnegation of religion is only a quick step behind.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2021
• Greatness, in the context of the administration’s economic ideology, is built on a ground laid thick with self-abnegation.
  — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 25 May 2017
• It’s what music and media corporations and academicians fought for: black and female self-abnegation.
  — Armond White, National Review, 14 Aug. 2020
• Rather than forge a signature style, Goya practiced a temperamental abnegation of anything usual.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
• The imitation of moral precepts—as opposed to Chinese-style imitation of technology—required a degree of self-abnegation.
  — The Economist, 9 Jan. 2020
• Congressional self-abnegation fits hand-in-glove with the rise of presidential governance, or the misapprehension by the public that the president, rather than the Congress, is the centerpiece of republican government.
  — Jay Cost, National Review, 11 Sep. 2017
• The individual photographs tell us virtually nothing, just as journalistic pictures are often empty of independent meaning, but the succession of images, page-by-page, is a steady beat of abnegation and self-abuse in the name of art.
  — Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 May 2018
• The systematic vilification of facts and expertise, the violent abnegation of diverse thought, the constant blasts of paranoia-stoking crime reports and patriotic soundbites on an inescapable news network—could this be more now?
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 19 May 2018
• To belong to one tribe, people accept an outsize and sometimes irrational portion of responsibility for their own safety and that of others through self-abnegation and personal fastidiousness.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2020
• That abnegation is an illness that has reached pandemic-level proportions under the panopticon of white-supremacist patriarchy, which seeds division among women through social pressure.
  — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2021
• In the 20th century, aristocratic restraint became middle-class self-abnegation.
  — Nikil Saval, New York Times, 10 May 2017
• The trend manages to cram a tremendous number of tedious affectations into tight quarters: design fetishism, ostentatious minimalism, costly self-abnegation.
  — Willy Staley, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018

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