Examples of shame

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Her story is involved with cultural disapprovals and shames, yet it must become a sustaining fiction.
Shame on those days, which injured me for life!
She would have thought a woman would have died of shame.
The pattern seems to be inversely correlated with female domestic labour and sense of honour or shame as well.
The most difficult subtask appeared to be the contextual recognition of complex emotions, like surprise and shame.
Probably many offenders excluded themselves, for reasons of conscience, or for fear of the shame of public rejection.
Moreover, whilst these trial reports took some of the shame out of divorce, the writings of sentimental novelists served to put it back in.
Earlier theoreticians of antecedent responsibility emphasized guilt, shame, and fear resulting from human destructiveness.
Dead people are dead people; they cannot feel any pain, or any shame either.
We take pride in our culture as one that protects autonomy, yet we feel shame that so few people offer their organs for transplantation.
None of that apparatus exists to control the enforcement of shame.
I did feel it was a shame not to have more on the linguistic arguments.
Is this because of fear, shame or simply because of domination?
One supposes one should have done as well as one's peers; and if one has not, one feels shame or chagrin for that failing.
The at times almost somnambulistic certainty with which so many theorists of trauma now emphasize the importance of shame is a striking recent development.
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