The rest is bravado, boasting, good and bad times with many women and hangers-on, enormous earnings (most of them blown), and wrenching self-criticism and self-abnegation.

NEWYORKER: Tyson

"A Tale of Music" draws on this history to tell a disturbing parable about an artist's willing self-abnegation in the service of the Great Leader.

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The hermits' fierce self-abnegation, their holy self-emptying seemed to her thrilling.

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Our approach places technological superiority in service to apologetic self-abnegation.

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The new path to American atonement is apologetic self-abnegation.

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