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Example sentences for: shame
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Only Thomas Friedman ( Washington Week in Review ) came to the studio prepared, cribbing from his next day's New York Times column: According to a popular one-liner in Jakarta, the ruling Suharto family, which owns toll roads, banks, and other businesses, "[has] everything--but a sense of shame."
She's right, for example, that sex education now is a bad compromise between puritanical shame and a cold, clinical detachment.
Their opportunism is a shame, because there's enough texture in Bringing Out the Dead for several movies.
A few stick up for the embattled author, arguing that though "the ideas expressed aren't complicated," Purdy "grapples with them with a seriousness that puts more seasoned--and ironic--commentators to shame" ( Publishers Weekly ). Walter Kirn, writing in Time , seems a bit gleeful at the fact that "the brainy nature boy has stormed the capital, panicking the languid sophisticates with an unfashionably passionate attack on the dangers of passionlessness," only to later concede that the book is "an arduous read that would test the syntactical skills of a tenured professor."
That would be a shame, since the technical solutions that Volokh dismisses carry the promise of avoiding his "spillover" problem altogether.