Word: shames
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...shame we can't have our fun and be taken seriously too, but given the either-or choice let's tone down the fun. It was a tough decision, I'll admit...
...Duck, the playgoer finds himself immersed in a world of coarse, rapacious robber barons who believe the disgrace in any swindle lies in getting caught. The most pitiable figure imaginable to them is someone who has fallen from luxury. Thus the privation of the ruined Ekdal family and the shame they feel at taking handouts from their former business partners, the Werles, permeate every emotional connection in the play. The Werles' first-act party takes place in shadow behind a mirrored wall, which later turns out also to have concealed the grim garret where the Ekdals live. When the action...
...That was one of the best college ballgames I've ever seen," B.C. Coach Eddie Pellagrini said. "It's a shame for anyone to lose that ballgame...
...enough to have him as our Attorney General, but to have him given a medal by a branch of Harvard University named for John F. Kennedy!-"have you no shame, Sir?" George Wald Higgins Professor of Biology Emiritus
...OTHER DAY, spurred by a fear that I had heard something moving around inside, I cleaned out my desk. Among the many things I found were my application essays (which I read with a shame not unlike that of Harrison Williams watching himself on the Abscam tapes), a half-eaten crispito, and an official guide to life at Harvard...