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"His hand trembles," Ruth was confessing, her face, for shame's sake, still buried.
Chapter 19 2010
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Yet Pakistan's elite have found that too high a price, as have scores of millions of other citizens who have become immune to shame's pinch.
Rob Asghar: A Double Game in Pakistan? More Like Double Shame Rob Asghar 2011
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He could not hope for a meal at Ruth's, for she was away to San Rafael on a two weeks 'visit; and for very shame's sake he could not go to his sister's.
Chapter 24 2010
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Yet Pakistan's elite have found that too high a price, as have scores of millions of other citizens who have become immune to shame's pinch.
Rob Asghar: A Double Game in Pakistan? More Like Double Shame Rob Asghar 2011
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Politicians and institutions can be shamed into changing bad behavior, and individuals can use the threat of shame's domesticated cousin embarrassment to alter their own behavior.
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He had found me after approaching my editor, and he used his profession as a mask, a shield to fend of shame's sting so he could play the role of savior — of father — that he convenienently skipped out on when it mattered the most.
The Door Kari Gremore 2010
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He had found me after approaching my editor, and he used his profession as a mask, a shield to fend of shame's sting so he could play the role of savior — of father — that he conveniently skipped out on when it mattered the most.
The Door 2010
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The very complaints about shame's absence testify to its new strength.
The Return Of Shame 2008
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But what is so dignified as the Cross, planted in the very centre of shame's garden?
St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles
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There was nothing left for him to do but to pay me, for shame's sake.
Armenian Literature Anonymous
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