abashment

He blushed again, though this time perhaps not entirely because of abashment.

But a moment later he seemed to see and recognize her abashment, though he could not have known its cause.

He had mastered himself and met Covenant's look as if they shared reasons for abashment.

Her abashment would be cheering if it weren't so compulsive.

Max made a face of boyish abashment (He can still do that?

On her countenance there was visible neither abashment nor pride.

Surely, though, his abashment was only an act.

Forcing down his confusion and abashment, he achieved a semblance of dignity.

Linden felt a sharp emanation of abashment from Covenant.

They wore comically identical looks of abashment.

Yet her abashment held her still.

Dana floated with ease, her abashment about her exposed legs and undies was less now.

Now she did not care about abashment , the material was constricting her movements, so she would have to work them off.

He returned my stare with no sign of abashment, a slight smile on that wide MacKenzie mouth.

As Ms. Danson realizes in abashment, he has "a child for every year that I knew him."

Despite his accomplishments over 30 years of film making, Mr. Scorsese retains an odd sense of abashment.

Although staged footage has been included since the early history of Mondo cinema, these scenes are nonetheless targets for critical abashment.

In the gangster farce Mickey Blue Eyes , Grant takes adorable abashment to delirious new heights.

She leaned toward the Tellarite, dropping her air of abashment and wrinkling her own nose, adding a sniff as she scowled at him.

His red-rimmed eyes and weary demeanor held a cast of abashment: he was a Giant and had not expected Fail's endurance to be greater than his.

Still holding the crash helmet he had given Troi as a gag going-away present, Riker felt a mixture of amusement, abashment, and confusion.

Writing in The New York Times, Ben Brantley called the show "a blissful piece of theater of abashment."

The fact that any performance - and life itself - is a minefield of potential embarrassments provides both the form and content of this blissful piece of theater of abashment.

Mr. Mellor bears the burden of the show's jokes, the funny ones as well as all of those that make us cringe, delivering them with a disarming sense of abashment.

Introduced to New York audiences several seasons ago in "Present Laughter," he is an amusing farceur with expressive eyebrows and a Dudley Moore-ish look of perpetual abashment.