7 sentences with 'shame'
Example sentences and phrases with the word shame and other words derived from it.
• « He went back to his car and returned home with his eyes flooded with tears of anger and shame. »
• « A bourgeois man was expected to meet high standards of honesty and business ethics. What these concepts shared was a fear of shame - the literature of the period describing this social class is full of references to the failure of a bourgeois to meet these standards and being exposed to great public humiliation. »
• « What had changed, however, was that the impulse to tie morality to a code of shame was secularised in the Victorian era to apply to everything, especially in economics. In short, there was a moral connection between virtue and economic success. »
• « As a result, many saw a new war as an opportunity to settle scores, to prove once and for all that they were citizens of a great power, and to shame their opponents into conceding defeat. »
• « Freud then identified another area of the unconscious as the "Superego": the social pressure to conform, the confrontation with external authority, and the overwhelming sense of shame and inadequacy that can, and usually does, result from facing all the pressures of life in human society. »