Common elements in absurdist fiction include satire, dark humour, incongruity, the abasement of reason, and controversy regarding the philosophical condition of being nothing.
The phrase is not a great claim; neither, however, is it an example of abasement before the shrine of antiquity.
Any failure in this central business involved a monstrous abasement, and against that our poor souls sought blindly for the most extravagant consolations.
We should suffer certain moral abasement.
You persist, then, in continuing to employ these terms of servility and abasement.
We certainly do not want to see an abasement of the wages.
This abasement is but the prelude to a further, more glorious transfiguration.
They talk about the personal abasement that flows from sexual immorality.
