Word: sheepishly
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...opportunities for humiliation. Should she tell her former classmates she's gay? That she performed with an all-female troop called the Five Lesbian Brothers? Should she introduce her lover as "the roommate?" Poignancy begins to enter the picture here as we witness the refreshing triumph of the once sheepish, small-town schoolgirl, released from the purgatory of junior high, who now, as an aggressive, honorary New Yorker can face an audience of classmates and proclaim: "I'm a lesbian! I'm a lesbian! I'M A LESBIAN...
...sheepish student moved up in the line and adjusted his baseball hat before presenting his copy of Playboy's October issue to Kelli M. Keller '97. She opened it to her picture, and with a fat felt-tipped pen scrawled. "To Wilson, with love," across the shiny page...
...Sorry," she said with a sheepish grimace as she made her way back to her seat and regarded the critics sitting in stunned silence. A star simply does not have to fetch her own salt...
When the TF, somewhat taken aback, asked him why he was planning to do this, he looked sheepish and mumbled something about masochism. The other students in the room laughed, "Final clubs," one said...
Today, as we listen to the Russian ambassador's sheepish explanation of why his country would build such a device, the circumstances sound strangely familiar, "In the end we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. At the same time, our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. The Doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we had been spending on defense in a single year...