Word: sheepishness
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...tropical vegetation and weather reports that predicted unseasonable cold for more than 300 consecutive days, thousands of tourists and retirees are up in arms after discovering that while they understood themselves to be in Florida, they were actually 3,000 miles north, in Greenland. Governor Jeb Bush's sheepish response--that Florida is just about full up, and that the rerouted human overflow will find the icebound island to be a spectacular vacation and sportsman's paradise if people remember to dress properly--has so far failed to mollify the complainants. A group of elderly condominium buyers are filing...
...habits are hard to change, even for the best informed. Another doctor on the ward, Nguyen Duy Tuyen, also specializes in head injuries and spends most of his time treating motorcyclists. Does he wear a helmet himself when riding a motorbike? "No," he confesses with a sheepish smile...
...course I felt a little bit sheepish when I told my friend in April that I would spend the majority of my time this summer sleeping in. And considering all the really cool things that everyone else seems to be doing, who wouldn?...
...professors were familiar already with Light’s book, but I summarized the importance he places on really getting to know faculty well. Doing this made me feel a bit sheepish. After all, there I was several years later, having clearly not followed this advice...
...press conference, “See, I happen to believe that we’ll find out the truth on the weapons…They could be hidden like the 50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm [in Libya].” Of course, as a sheepish White House spokesperson Scott McClellan revealed later, there were actually 23.6 tons of mustard gas, and they were not buried in a turkey farm. Former top U.S. weapons inspector David Kay, once a vehement believer that Iraq had WMDs, has admitted that he and most of the international community were wrong...