The Orientalist Edward Balfour, though he described the Hazaras as "unblushing beggars and thieves," went on to write, "Some of the clans have a military repute; they would make good soldiers, and might have risen to distinction, but they are disunited".
But the cold light Manet casts on the cool, creamy skin of his nude and her unwavering and unblushing outward gaze, transform the scene.
In contrast, in my brief exposure to the British upper classes I've found anti-semitism commonplace and frequently unblushing.
In several books and papers, Nussbaum quotes a sentence by the sociologist Erving Goffman, who wrote, "In an important sense there is only one complete unblushing male in America: a young, married, white, urban, northern, heterosexual, Protestant father of college education, fully employed, of good complexion, weight, and height, and a recent record in sports".
The day after Mr. Blair gave the speech of his life in the House of Commons and managed to contain the Labor rebellion, The Independent, a relentless enemy of his war stance, published an editorial with unblushing language suggesting that Mr. Blair's lonely struggle, which seemed to be leaving him isolated and adrift, may have instead worn down his detractors and earned him begrudging respect.
The spectacle appalled such observers as John Quincy Adams, with the former president sorrowing that Texas joined the union tainted by two crimes, slavery and "robbery of Mexico .More than a century of unblushing, institutionalised racism followed, involving everything from segregated schools to guestworker schemes that left Mexicans at the mercy of exploitative bosses.
No one has been able to authenticate the quote, and John G. Nicolay, a private secretary to Lincoln and co-author with John Hay of a formidable ten-volume Lincoln biography, called it a bald, unblushing forgery.
The committee's co-founder, Vernon Robinson, makes an unblushing, race-based pitch.
George, shortsighted as well as sceptical, saw more.These are slightly strained paradoxes, but behind them is something soberingly familiar: "institutional racism", of course, but also the fragility of the law in the face of unblushing authority.
As I write, I am zapping between the TV channels, watching the "talking heads" of the political elite analyse a result announced, with unblushing certitude, at the very moment that the voting booths closed in Paris (a couple of hours after us folks in the sticks).
Here I'd like to examine a narrower aspect of the contest: the unblushing use of race and ethnicity as political tools.A low point came during a debate on June 6th when Mr Rangel mocked his 59-year old rival ("this young fellow"), asking what he had done "besides saying he's a Dominican".
