Sentence examples for seemed ashamed from inspiring English sources

Some said their own families seemed ashamed of them.

Dong seemed ashamed, and insisted that her name and that of her company stay out of this story.

Lair Torrent, a family and couples therapist based in New York, said his single clients often seemed ashamed to bring up financial concerns about the people they dated.

The Perrier award, meanwhile, prompted a personal crisis: for several years, Kitson seemed ashamed of having won it and afraid of the mainstream success that it, and Phoenix Nights, promised.

But as stressful as I knew the debt was for them, my parents never seemed ashamed of it.

Now they seem ashamed of what he stands for.

Nobody even seems ashamed to be caught lying.

Romney seems ashamed of touting financial performance as an essential factor in economic growth, choosing instead to come across as a one-man hiring hall.

When Caithleen buys a bra, the shopgirl has a "pale, first communion voice" and "pale, pure, rosary-bead hands"; her very fingers seem ashamed to be holding "the flimsy black sinful garment".

The best that can be said for Bush's sudden call for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage is that, on some level, he seems ashamed of it.

Rather than seeming ashamed or upset by what she had done, however, she claimed that the babies would be given new names anyway, that the anonymity "question" would be debated for "forever", and apologised, in the classic formulation, "for any offence caused", as if offence were the issue, and none was proven anyway.