Sentence examples for provoke shame from inspiring English sources

It was felt that experiencing problems with alcohol would provoke shame, a reluctance to discuss problems with colleagues, especially managers, and an avoidance of any support or services within the workplace.

Why did I get this one?'" (Site A, FG #8) This participant struggled not only with the practical implications of her disease, but with questions of meaning and fate, asking 'Why me?' and, by extension, 'Why this [horrid] disease?' Participants spoke in vivid terms about how dealing with their symptoms in social situations can provoke shame.

In addition to provoking shame about a nearly universal activity, abstinence-only sex education is ineffective and dangerous.

We know the impact of the Cost of Living Crisis on adults: debt, hunger and going-without causes them stress and ill-health, and provokes shame and humiliation.

Villas-Boas said that the City loss ought to have provoked shame in the players, which went down badly in the dressing room.

I thought of the range of feelings the ambush had provoked: shame at having retreated, fear of what might happen, and that confusing, dreadful excitement that can come from violence.

The therapist can help the client make links between their beliefs and pertinent early life experiences in a compassionate and understanding way and this minimises the possibility of provoking shame or a defensive reaction.

For some women, bringing up the child was considered a mother's responsibility, and even if this provoked social shame, some women perceived this option as being in the best interest of the child.

The outsiders they will all come and sing songs to provoke me, to shame me".

Of course, we of the non-barbaric sort do hope that all this attention paid to Rick Perry's willingness to execute anyone on death row – no matter how obviously screwed over by an imperfect and often unjust judicial system – could somehow provoke enough national shame that we actually do away with the death penalty.

Anything that threatens him with social shame provokes an irrational severity.