Brown has not even thought of that comparison, shame and double shame upon him.
Speaking of the athletes' village, the withdrawal of Rafael Nadal is a double shame.
And double shame on her for devaluing motherhood and perpetuating the myth of the asexual mother in opposition to some idealized Venus.
Double shame for allowing others to believe that the proper response to a bird-eating hawk is to stand by and watch.
Across the Middle East and north Africa, sex is bound up in taboo and double standards, shame and silence (by no means a uniquely Arab situation, as I've learned from readers from around the world).
If Democrats let the right play this double game, shame on them.
Although Pamuk sees "the east-west divide" as, certainly for him, an illusion ("I can, without any guilt, wander between the two worlds, and in both I am at home"), it colours his fiction, and shapes his characters' anxieties about tradition and modernity, authenticity and imitation (copies and doubles recur), shame and the seeds of nationalist pride.
Drugs like Pregnyl are considered neither repugnant nor desperate but technological feats, so why the double standard shaming those who extract methamphetamine from their urine?
The white community, the conventional wisdom goes, is more accepting of its sexual minorities, leading to fewer double lives, less shame and less unsafe sex.
That double assessment — pride and shame, compassion and alienation — is the stereoscopic vision of "A House for Mr. Biswas," and, in a sense, of all Naipaul's fiction, and it is why he is a writer who has a conservative vision but radical eyesight.
