Sentence examples for Abashed from inspiring English sources

Abashed, he pulled into his driveway, only to find himself fenced in: Emil Andressen, his real-estate agent, had pulled in behind him in a silver Lexus, transporting a couple of potential buyers.

Moreover, they do not seem seriously abashed by the outcome of the war in Iraq.

One might have expected some humility on their part, as most of them received hefty donations from the Houston company, just last year ranked seventh in the Fortune 500, but few seem abashed by this.

Sitting in Mr Blair's shoes, ordinary mortals might have felt just a little abashed at the failure to unearth a single weapon of mass destruction in Iraq after more than two months of searching.

The small, bald, wiry man, dressed in a dhoti and leaning on a staff, peered through his spectacles at the 17-year-old schoolboy, who was too abashed to speak.

He continued to have a grudging respect for some Polish communists, including his liberator Cyrankiewicz, but he was flattered rather than abashed when his accounts of the evils of Soviet communism persuaded his students to dub him "McCarthyski .As an academic, Mr Karski wrote a lot on the treatment of Poland during and after the war.

"In Governor Palin's case, the more often she has repeated the story, the more abashed the press has seemed about pointing out its falsity," says Mr Fallows.

The interviewer is increasingly abashed.

But he was not abashed for long.

The Count, abashed, is forced to beg his wife's forgiveness.

If Collingwood is abashed he does not show it.