Word: shameless
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...years have been kind to the famed Novello profile and his eyes still flash the same old exciting theatrical fire. His fans never seem to tire of his shameless romanticism. "I suppose," Novello once remarked, "it has given them some focus in life...
Americans have shown a willingness to take most of their information about communism and Russia from a curious and shameless lot of renegades. Krebs ("Valtin"), Kravehenko, and Budenz have followed each other, in renouncing the cause loudly in the tencent press. But it seems strange that a mere turnabout should qualify these men as respected experts; if, before, they were conspiratorial and totalitarian minded enemies of America and democracy, why are they now suddenly eligible for cocktail parties and the better publishing houses...
...Manhattan admen have a corner on the national advertising that goes to college magazines. To Harvardmen Madison Sayles and W. B. Bradbury the most depressing thing about their business is not the tired jokes they encounter among their ads. It is the visits of shameless radio gag writers who buy up old copies as a source of swipeable humor...
...Hampden accompanied it in the '20s-as a reminder that high romance once lived in the world, or at any rate in the theater. Brightly tricked out, Cyrano is always welcome, for it offers playgoers the satisfaction of witnessing a "classic" and at the same time reveling in shameless sentiment, noble gestures and high theatrical hokum...
...patronized. We want to be left alone, you understand! We want to live our own way and we want no foreign teachers and no foreign money and no foreign habits and no smiles of condescension and no pat on the shoulder and no arrogance and no shameless women with wiggling buttocks in our holy places. We want not their honey and we want not their sting, you understand...