In both movies, Delpy brings to the deep-dish conversations about life and love a charge of apparent artlessness: she seems to be discovering her emotions as well as her ideas as she goes along, and when she's abashed by how much she feels she laughs at herself before giving in to emotion once more.
If Collingwood is abashed he does not show it.
Mr. Schwartz is abashed to be so self-centered.
WILLIAM R. DECOTA is abashed that he doesn't have a better La Guardia Airport nightmare story.
Boccaccio does this not because he is abashed by his material but because, as an artist of language, he would be ashamed to say "fuck" five times in one story.
As they visit one location after another, Mr. Wiener is abashed to discover that the past has vanished and that some of those he remembers don't remember him.
When his boss, Lt. Ana Ruiz (Diana Maria Riva), reminds Bailey that he once corrected the captain in front of the chief of police, Bailey is abashed but not apologetic, explaining, "It's just that there is no such thing as a statue of limitations".
He was self-conscious at first as a countryman — he is abashed as he catches himself crossing the barnyard with a paper napkin in his hand — but the demands of the work and his affinity for it soon dismissed such concerns and somehow put him in place as a writer.
He was self-conscious at first as a countryman he is abashed as he catches himself crossing the barnyard with a paper napkin in his hand but the demands of the work and his affinity for it soon dismissed such concerns and somehow put him in place as a writer.
"She ought to be abashed," Hattie said once.
Once or twice he touched her legs, not lewdly, but she reproached him and he was abashed; he retreated into gloom, wouldn't speak for hours.
