Word: shamed
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...father thanked me for writing about his sister's death. His eyes collected the mist around us and made it tangible. Only then did I realize the connection between the death I witnessed and the life of my friend. My emotional self-assurance dissolved in a fog of shame...
...Footbinding indicated qualities of shame and domestic diligence...
...organizers of the party said there would be absolutely no drinking or smoking," said one student at the party. "It was a dance range. It's a shame it was broken...
...Oooo-ow, Mom!" Most of us know that despairing wail, the cry of offspring on whom a parent has inadvertently visited heartrending shame: when we have overdressed or underdressed for some public outing with the kids in tow or cracked a dumb joke or otherwise called unwarranted attention to ourselves...
Michelman spoke at length about her own pre-Roe abortion in 1970. "I know first-hand how absolutely essential Roe is to women's rights... Roe vs. Wade saved women from the shame, degradation and horror [of illegal abortions]," she said...