Word: shamed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...think that is going to be a shame," says Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan about the two different sites. "I would prefer it all to be in one space, but that would require a mammoth building...
...also made up a large fraction of the hearing's meager Tlingit audience. After the purification ceremonies and a speech by 92-year-old George Jim exhorting the Tlingits to "march together; that way we will not fall apart!" the defendants entered, dressed in reversed tunics, to indicate their shame, and traditional red head coverings...
...teenager's suicide, especially its less obvious indicators. The deepening silence of the patient Slaby calls Chad, for example, or the perpetual weeping of Sarah; John's eerie paintings, or Bret's getting himself kicked off the hockey team. Often, Slaby writes, depression is exacerbated when a youth feels shame over a subject that is taboo within the family: homosexuality, an unwanted pregnancy, the family's unacknowledged history of mental illness...
Equally disturbing were reports that efforts to contain the epidemic in Asia, a particular focus of last week's session, were being crippled by shame and denial, the same forces that hindered efforts in the U.S. and Europe 10 years ago. Experts fear that overcrowding and other factors in Asia could make the epidemic there even more devastating than it is in Africa...
...Shame is stuffed with such slack reasoning and prose. But bad writers deserve the same freedoms as good ones. If, as is to be hoped, Nasrin gets out of her troubles, she may even prove that persecution is a smart career move...