"inner shame" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a feeling of guilt or embarrassment that is felt internally rather than being exposed outwardly. For example, after getting caught cheating on an exam, the student felt an intense inner shame that no one else could see.
To their inner shame, Mets fans find themselves scanning Yankee schedules and Red Sox schedules.
Mr. Chen portrayed the emperor as a Shakespearean tyrant whose brutality covers inner shame.
Chen portrays the emperor as a Shakespearean tyrant whose brutality covered inner shame.
I wonder whether Gary has actually become a lightning rod for all of these men to release their inner shame about past pant-soiling experiences.
There was also an inner shame associated with disposal of embryos because many infertile couples, at one time considered their peers, are not so privileged to even make that decision: " Discarding is too "Mottainai" considering waste of all the hardships attaining it and inconsiderate to those patients who could not even reach that point of having embryos".
Here and in "IMS" (an acronym for "Inner Mounting Shame"), the lyrics sound like they're being negotiated, rather than expressed, while the music, for all its pleasing West Coast and Brit-psych affinities, lacks the risk and edge that made Sixties psychedelia such a thrill-ride.
The inner dialogue of shame and fear is very, very real -- and in those moments, I often wonder if other men with disabilities who have considered hiring/ or who have hired workers have gone through the same?
Characters "knew shame" — and inner shifts are signalled by simple, definitive phrases like, "And so he conquered his envy".
Her three sisters, who've all had the same procedure, tell her that what she's feeling is her joy, her inner beauty, her former shame set free to roam.
The goal of such an undertaking is to consecrate our inner lives, not to shame, avoid, or control them.
And interestingly, it doesn't particularly show homophobia as an outward force, but rather an inner one – Frankie's shame and secrecy comes from inside of himself, a personal rather than social battle he fails to fully confront.
