Word: shameful
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Although he says he feels it’s a shame that enclaves of Boston are segregated by ethnicity, Stone points out that this circumstance benefits diners in that they can choose what area to explore simply by deciding what they want...
...public sphere, not just the private sector. Bush’s plan, and the smaller Senate version, does neither. It is the same story as the 2001 tax cut. But as Bush himself said in a Sept. 17 speech in Nashville: “Fool me once, shame on—shame on you. Fool me—Fool me, can’t get fooled again...
What we also realized about these red-letter days is that frequently we were telling the story of individual people, those who, to use Stephen Spender's phrase, "left the vivid air signed with their honor." (Or with their shame. History is not just a gallery of heroes.) Here's Jesse Owens waving to Hitler after crushing the Fuhrer's idea of Aryan superiority. Here's Tim Berners-Lee posting a message to colleagues about his idea to create the World Wide Web. We wanted to picture them as they went about their business, on a day when it just...
...Americans in recent years have made it clear we don't want to elect politicians who are smarter than we are. Rather than pin our national hopes to politicians at ease with nuance, most of us seem to crave average thinkers with average ideas. And that's a shame, because all of us should feel encouraged and comforted, rather than threatened, by the presence of great thinkers in Washington. As Moynihan proved over the course of nearly forty years in government, great minds are well-used in the messy and essential arena of public service...
...most popular thing to say today, but Michael Moore had not only every right but every legitimate qualification to make an antiwar speech - "Shame on you, Mr. Bush! Shame on you!" - at the 2003 Oscars. The standard reason to discount political speeches from Hollywood celebs, after all, is that we don't give a crap about their political thoughts: their job is to stand up, look pretty, collect their $25 million and give US and People something to write about...