Certainly, experience with utility publication of information about heavy water or power use has tended to generate a shame (or PR) driven push for greater efficiency.
The result is a quasi "don't ask, don't tell" culture generating fear, shame, and secrecy instead of the love and security that should be the right of any couple.
Whether it was the media buzz that the party managed to generate, the public shaming of Washington's state administrators, or the consciousness-raising effects of vocal house and dark techno on the undercover police officers assigned to sneak into the party, something worked, and the Board went dormant.
True, Spinoza allows that certain passions, e.g., pity, fear, lust, despondency, and shame, can generate socially useful effects, but in general, "insofar as men are subject to passions, they cannot be said to agree in nature" (IVP32) and thus can be evil for each other (IV P30d).
Some sexual stories generate feelings such as shame, guilt and anxiety.
An awkward laugh escaped my lips, releasing some of the nervous tension generated by my shame.
You really don't see a lot of what is going on, which is a bit of a shame as they can generate a fantastic atmosphere.
German is famous for its ability to generate new abstract nouns: fremdschämen (exterior shame); t orschlusspanik (closing-gate panic); trappenwitz (staircase wit).
It's indeed a shame that Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy failed to generate excitement among Academy voters.
But with the concept of "tax, not shame," a shocking $20 million severance package would generate $10 million for the government.
