Sentence examples for profound shame from inspiring English sources

Geldof said he looked down at the increasingly desperate situation with "profound shame".

He told the judge that Michael felt "profound shame and horror" after the accident.

It's a profound shame that the reputation of Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) seems to be waning.

It inspires profound shame, guilt, anger, recrimination and remorse, aimed in many directions for many reasons on both sides of a racial divide.

"I look at it with profound shame and a monstrous betrayal of who we are and what we wish to be," he said.

"The profound shame that xenophobia brings on this nation is the same kind of shame that apartheid brought on the people of this land.

One son has married the perfect, peacekeeping wife, one, harbouring profound sexual shame (arising from incestuous coprophilia, since you ask) has married a vulgarian.

Punters lap it up while the sport's naysayers think of the Cup more along the lines of a profound national shame.

The very line "a day of profound national shame" is delivered by a racing official in director Simon Wincer's 1983 drama tracing the career of Australia's legendary thoroughbred, Phar Lap, a national icon as beloved as jars of Vegemite or Sir Donald Bradman.

They are a source of profound embarrassment and shame.

They are extremely self-involved and have a highly inflated view of themselves, which masks profound vulnerability and shame.