Divorce has lost much of its stigma, or shame.
It is difficult to get enough people to play volleyball with me. It's a shame.
The tribes here are very strong. It would bring great shame on you to arrest your cousin.
To this day I can feel myself almost swooning with shame as I stood, a very small, round-faced boy in short corduroy knickers, before the two women.
While many gifts are modest — oranges, chocolate or liquor — failure to bring them home could be a source of shame, and especially painful for parents who work away from home most of the year.
Her face mantled with shame.
My poet's vanity dies in shame before thy sight.
It is a shame to hitch up your trousers before the public.
"So I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen."
"Hysterical" was how one man described to me the mood in his home, adding that the hysteria was followed by humiliation and shame.
It matters a lot that the Anglo-Saxon world has a different memory of that same war: it is a tragic event, but not a cause for shame, nor a reminder of impotence.
His sunken cheeks slowly reddened and burned with miserable shame.
Have you with your white beard no shame? You caress my hair and inside myself I laugh.
Cor. 4:14 it is not to shame you that I write these things but to admonish you as my beloved children.
Her remarks made him writhe with shame.
What a shame such a shapely sash should such shabby stitches show?
It's a shame our particular moat, the ashram of Pray, is so exhausting, because in the Love section Bardem proves himself a worthy castle.
Her words made him writhe with shame.
He had no taste for shame, tack or pretension, and his credo as a professional soldier was unified and concise.
So shame on Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and all those who spew platitudes about integrity, justice and accountability while allowing war criminals and torturers to walk freely upon the earth.
Presumption: when we think we already know it all. "he who answers before listening-that is his folly and his shame" (Proverbs 18:13 NIV).
Pundits are coining phrases such as "austerity chic" and "luxury shame".
Losing her eyelash cause her to blush for shame.
That’s a shame because stories like Kafka’s contain truths we’d do well to heed.
I am a proud old man but no one can make me feel shame or embarrassment for using my cloth bags and thereby helping, in my oh-so-small way, to keep the environment cleaner.
The story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done.
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