abjection

And he loathes what he perceives as homosexual abjection.

What mattered more was always the creativity and abjection with which the contestants approached his personal challenge: Prove your loyalty through self-betrayal.

“It’s this whole ‘leaning into abjection’ thing we see in ‘Girls’ and ‘Fleabag’” — the television shows created by Lena Dunham and Phoebe Waller-Bridges.

In their seeming abjection and haphazardness they exhibited affinities with postwar Japanese photography.

They are in costume to play the role of pure abjection, expressing the painter’s inner state more than any genuine state of poverty in the real world.