shamefulness

The shamefulness of his words hit me like a club.

It's as if each critic showed us the limits of his shamefulness, how far he's prepared to go.

Retirement has not entirely shed its taint of shamefulness.

For a moment Cato felt pity for the general, until the shamefulness of that emotion embarrassed him.

Otherwise, she had behaved quietly and with that absence of shamefulness or shyness characteristic of other serf girls.

Joe, the married man, lectures June, who speaks slightingly of an effeminate classmate, about the shamefulness of living in the closet.

He turned on to his right side, then he turned on to his left, wracked with the shamefulness of the memory.

In America, there's a certain Puritan sense of holding down the soulfulness and spontaneity of emotional equipment; there's a certain shamefulness."

Denying the shamefulness of having to shuffle and deal the cards is reason enough to banish a person from playing the game ever again (Greg Harden Rule).

Haec-Vir accuses the mannish woman of baseness, unnaturalness, shamefulness, and foolishness: he grounds his argument in traditional assumptions about social order and gender decorum.

With considerable shamefulness, this column had to concede that the meaningfulness of his foolishness did, in fact, lend this column a weightiness that was not without valuableness.

The next morning, a battalion of lawyers and university officials stormed Sheldon's lab, seized every photo of a nude woman, convicted the images of shamefulness and sentenced them to burning.

And the fact that many of them are still kept in the degrading conditions of concentration camps by the Allies gives sufficient evidence of the shamefulness and hopelessness of the situation.

Trent Lott, in underlining the shamefulness of such cynical calibrations, has presented Mr. Bush with a splendid opportunity to move more quickly toward a broader, more inclusive Republican Party.

I am saved the pain of being burnt alive, and thus, perhaps, saved from a death of despair, but the shamefulness is the same, and it is that I think of."

She saw the shamefulness of his position, felt the fettered wickedness in him which would blaze out into evil rage in the long run, so that he was like a persistent, strong creature tethered.

I'm sure there've been lots of Paul McMullans in the past, yet this year has seen the name suddenly changed into a byword for arrogance, ignorance, skin-crawling shamefulness and an astonishing failure to understand anything.

Although Ebbert is most notable for his dealings with agricultural issues, he also tussled with Prohibitionists of the time, culminating in his impassioned writings on the shamefulness of dirty politics and political mudslinging.

But, now, he would die ere he would allow that fear to surface, to show its shamefulness to this affable young officer and his troopers, all of whom had immediately and naturally accepted him as a warrior like themselves.

A whiff of shamefulness probably began attaching itself to certain kinds of fiction - and to mysteries and thrillers especially - at the end of the 19th century, with the rise of the "penny dreadful," or cheaply printed serial.

I'm running this show," the Ensign chuckled, and slapped Doremus, not very painfully, merely with a shamefulness as great as Doremus's when he realized that he had been so cowardly as to appeal to Shad and Francis.

Says Mr. Safire of the current fiscal shamefulness ("Hail to Ginglock," column, Oct. 8), "the conflict is between politicians who want to do more for the people versus those who want people to be able to do more for themselves.

But it was not the shamefulness of the episode so much as the positive action that Charles took that gained notice today in newspapers that are more accustomed to commenting on the affairs, divorces and parental lapses in a family generally treated in the press as a dysfunctional one.

Second, while I agree there is a shamefulness in the Sudanese conflict, there is also measurable shame in another related conflict, the one inside the United Nations between the two agencies most directly responsible for relief and development, the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Program.