Mr. Cayne has historically not been well known for his self-abnegating qualities.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Bonus Season, and Even the Bosses Are Learning to Live Less Large] Reference

Indeed, Mill thinks that it would be much better if men tended to be more self-effacing and self-abnegating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference

Finally, Andrew Hacker characterizes my views as a call to a nineteenth-century code of self-abnegating duty.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Divorce Culture'] Reference

Such a sad notion only applies if one subscribes to various self-abnegating notions such as feminism and sexism.    From Wordnik.com.  [CSK: Redux] Reference

The mild-mannered, rational Goran has to twist himself into self-abnegating knots to try to reconcile the household.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Can't We Live Together?] Reference

Many are politic enough not to admit it; some are even self-abnegating enough to provide a convincing display of liking it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I hate Valentine's Day] Reference

Sometimes, investors and managers take heroic, self-abnegating efforts to stave off bankruptcy and make their debt payments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Default Nation] Reference

Thus the humble and self-abnegating Anselm, who had kept the commandments and loved his Maker, passed in glory to the Saints of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

John (Sandler), on the other hand, is a soulful, self-abnegating master chef who expresses himself forthrightly only in the kitchen.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPANGLISH: LANGUAGE OF LOVE] Reference

I ignored this, and reverted to automatic self-abnegating behavior off-stage, and naturally I was treated as I expected to be treated.    From Wordnik.com.  [who i am] Reference

Learn to break the habit of unnecessary possessions -- a monkey on everybody's back -- but avoid a self-abnegating, anti-joyous self-righteousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog Action Day: Environment] Reference

There might be some satisfaction in denying one's self a pleasure if one felt one were independent, and that what one did was self-abnegating and laudable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Governess] Reference

I, Fenris Badwulf, self-abnegating and least self-aggrandizing servant of You, The People of Mitchieville, wrote this. posted by Fenris Badwulf at 3: 19 AM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Speech? What's that?] Reference

The hope was that term limits would produce self-abnegating, public-minded individuals to replace the current self-absorbed, money-grubbing career politicians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

A true and pure character, feeling its inferiority and anxious to advance, cannot long remain in the background; it has sufficient stamina to attain the height of self-abnegating greatness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

She is lured into the self-abnegating realm of Starling's neuro - science lab, which is guided by an extreme behaviorism that denies consciousness itself, and with it free will and morality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cry Wolfe] Reference

Romeo uses the arch and frayed metaphor of the courtly love tradition, in which the man prostrates himself before the object of his desire; the male is importunate, self-abnegating, pleading.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

A ray of the divine love must also exist in the essence of the human soul, to enable it to perform the marvels of self-abnegating devotion, of which the most humble among us frequently seem capable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Prussia and Greek-Churched Russia -- but it is not dead: it lives in all the energy of self-abnegating suffering on the mountains of Causasus, the steppes of Asia, the frozen plains of Siberia, in the depths of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

In other words, the maverick who offers himself up as a possible leader is either promising to be one of the most self-abnegating and self-disciplined people alive or he's warning you he's going to be a tyrant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maverickiness and presumption] Reference

The response to self-existent love is self-abnegating love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II.] Reference

We are not all self-abnegating ascetics and austerity freaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

He shook in a self-abnegating way, as one who shook for Tellson and Co.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tale of Two Cities] Reference

The old fellow's voice was strangely balanced between pathos and a peculiar self-abnegating humour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slave of the Lamp] Reference

Joseph Tipps, having got leave of absence for an evening, was also there, -- modest amiable, active and self-abnegating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iron Horse] Reference

The abolitionists even had perhaps the first self-abnegating Nader-esque career human rights campaigner: Thomas Clarkson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

Calcutta in 1948 into a global beacon of self-abnegating care, delivered the kind of message the world had come to expect from her.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

Had she been warned in a dream, she could have compassed no surer method of reducing his pride than this self-abnegating generosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee] Reference

To the bravery and powers of endurance of a man, she united the generosity, the quick tenderness, and the self-abnegating love of the woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [My beloved South,] Reference

Journalism's self-abnegating decision to rename itself the "Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications" LOL.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

My hope was to get assigned an adobe hut somewhere in central Africa and begin my second career as a gruel ladler in abject, self-abnegating style.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

I'm not that smart, he says in a typically self-abnegating tone, when asked about the big picture and hard answers to seemingly insurmountable problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

I love self-abnegating comments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Rich Lawyers Boosting Traffic Jams and Calling It Charity] Reference

"I have not the grand self-abnegating spirit necessary for such a work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not Pretty, but Precious] Reference

A driver was also heroically self-abnegating.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

(10) more philanthropic than men (IV 11), and (11) more self-sacrificing and self-abnegating than men (II 10).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference

He was imposing, serious, and grave, but -- as always -- self-abnegating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference