Shame can be helpful if it reminds you today of the person you want to be; if it leads you to an apology that will clear the air; if its purpose is clear and helps you grow in a direction that feels right and whole. Robert Beavers, aDallas family therapy researcher and...
shame (shām) n. 1. a. A painful emotion caused by the belief that one is, or is perceived by others to be, inferior or unworthy of affection or respect because of one's actions, thoughts, circumstances, or experiences: felt shame for having dropped out of school. b. Respect for pr...
Related to shamefaced:ashamed shame·faced (shām′fāst′) adj. 1.Indicative of shame; ashamed:a shamefaced explanation. 2.Extremely modest or shy; bashful. [By folk etymology from obsoleteshamefast,bashful, ashamed, from Middle English, from Old Englishsceamfæst:sceamu,shame+fæst,fixed...
She notes soberly that “in a society like Iraq’s, where a family’s reputation is measured by the perceived virtue of its women, [a] woman suspected of transgressing social codes suffers extreme consequences for bringing shame on her family….She may even be murdered by her family to ...
17.Our building even had a tiny lift with a female voice that said, “Ouverture des portes,” in perfect French. That is the only French phrase I mastered, and it’s a shame I don’t have much use for it. Parisians are di...
His eyes, glazed with emotion, defiant with tragic intensity, met theirs for a second, and trembled on the verge of recognition; but then, raising his hand, half-way to his face as if to avert, to brush off, in an agony of peevish shame, their normal gaze, as if he begge...
The price of shame羞辱的代价 Monica Lewinsky 本文是17年前的白宫性丑闻事件当事人、前白宫实习生莫妮卡·莱温斯基在TED大会上演讲 Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop, says Monica Lewinsky. In 1998, she says, “I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost...
The Voice of Scotland; Dying ShameAny civilised person had to be sickened by the shocking ITV documentary on the maltreatment of children in China's "dying room" orphanages.Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
paid, but the price measures the profit of those who prey on them. This invasion of others is a raw material, efficiently and ruthlessly mined, packaged and sold at a profit. A marketplace has emerged where public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry. How is the money ...
Even if I imagine a scheme of vengeance, what could I do better for my object than to let thee live,—than to give thee medicines against all harm and peril of life,—so that this burning shame may still blaze upon thy bosom?" As he spoke, he laid his long forefinger on the ...