In one, they wade together on a beach; in the other, they eye each other abashedly.
She laughed, a bit abashedly: "I've changed my mind," she said.
"I keep my journals locked in a safe in my bathroom," he said abashedly, as if this had been the afternoon's sole display of eccentricity.
WENDELL STEAVENSON: Ok I am abashedly (is this a real word?) posting this kind enquiry from B because several people have asked what else I am up to and what about the novel etc.
The federal Tory minister got up and, looking somewhat abashedly at Ignatieff, said that the Conservatives did, too, care about culture, that everyone did in Canada, that this was true "on the center-left and center-right and all points in between".
Yet, I sat below an image of a lovely, tree-lined country road, that, if not Italian, could credibly have been, and my server did suggest wine, if abashedly.
Both children abashedly go home to their parents in Tennessee (which is where Mr. Wilson lives, teaching fiction at the University of the South and helping to run the Sewanee Writers' Conference).
"This tale grew in the telling," wrote Tolkien, accurately and perhaps abashedly, in his foreword to "The Lord of the Rings".
Yet here she is, author of what she somewhat abashedly calls a "dog-oir".
("Crazy, huh?") But she lives in a world where life feels tentative every single day, where women must brace for the fact that men come home lovingly, abashedly, unhinged or not at all.
The waiter abashedly retreats with the mints.
