Sentence examples for seems ashamed from inspiring English sources

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Nobody even seems ashamed to be caught lying.

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.

He seems ashamed.

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Some said their own families seemed ashamed of them.

Now they seem ashamed of what he stands for.

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.

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 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.

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.

All the Detroit automakers seem ashamed that the vehicles are so utilitarian, that they are driven by "soccer moms".

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