Sentence examples for human shame from inspiring English sources

If you can look at this kind of raw human shame and perverse humiliation without cringing, you're probably a corrections officer or in the CIA.

In van Agtmael's images, nature doesn't just hold myriad histories and human shames but subsumes and outlives them.

Sometimes I think the story of Adam and Eve is a direct response to this ancient anxiety, that the sin of man is not the desire for God-like knowledge but rather our secret, unknowable all-too-human shame.

This is why the human feels shame and the animal does not; nakedness for the human is something altogether different.

They and their fellow beasts have their follies and foibles, but soon sink their differences to mount a collective enterprise displaying flair, pluck and determination that put the humans to shame.

And emperor penguins put human thermoregulation to shame.

It's a profound gesture of self-sacrifice that puts some human parents to shame.

Human decency and shame are absorbed into some monstrous automaton crashing, blind and drooling, through the bonds that hold a society together.

The brilliant stroke of the conclusion transforms the romantic cliches of the "blushing morn" and "blushing eve" to the uniquely human blush of shame.

Companies are designed to make money, but the people who run them are not immune to such human motivations as shame and pride.

Worse, lobbies such as the National Rifle Association tell members that by bearing arms they are a bulwark against tyranny: an appeal to narcissism, built on a belief that American democracy is a fragile sham.Mr Biden's faith in his opponents' human decency should shame both Mr Obama and Republican zealots.