Word: shamings
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...Ferrell to expose this slab of flank might be deemed inappropriate at best, sadistic at worst. But because he does it without the requisite shame, it's funny, since the actor is usually playing guys who are cocooned in, and sustained by, an utterly unwarranted belief in themselves. Ferrell knows, as surely as his characters don't, that his body is nothing to boast about. So to display it as if it were worthy of a Muscle & Fitness cover is to tell us that they are as unself-conscious as they are self-unaware. Ferrell might be the fellow...
...Janina Sobota, a 60-year-old pensioner present at an anti-abortion rally, called the Tysiac case "a shame for Polish mothers." "A mother should protect her children, not to kill them," Sobota says. "There was no respect for life under communism," said Sobota, a mother of three. "Each time I was pregnant, the first words I heard from a doctor were: 'Pregnancy. Are we terminating?' We can't continue like that...
...players, Tiwari called on India's agriculture minister to resign, not forgetting, of course, that the relevant minister also sits on the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Leaving aside their special interests for a moment, Tiwari wrote that farm activists "termed this defeat as national shame...
...backed by a moronically bullying attitude (co-director Tucker was, by happenstance, the cameraman accompanying the raid on Yunis's house), that there is nothing approaching justice (or even simple sensitivity) in the way that the day-to-day business of war is conducted in Iraq; that the shame of this war's conduct will burn our memories for decades to come...
...Elsewhere folks were turning around traffic signs, so Russians do not reach Prague. Here they embraced them. It's a shame," says a 19-year-old kid sipping beer on a bench by a grocery store, who gave his name as Tomas...