I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.
It's a shame that it didn't work out with Mick. I was hopelessly in love with him.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.
I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.
There is no shame in wanting to age naturally or wanting to 'age gracefully' with a little help from products or procedures.
Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was struck by what I had forgotten of the book: in a manner of pages, we encounter shame, history, ruin, conflicting stories, and wounds badly healed; in short, the South.
If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
Trump has no sense of shame.
I feel non-stop Brit shame!
We have a non-traditional family, and if it makes people uncomfortable, it's a shame that they are not more open.
That's one of the problems as a Christian, is that we have to deal with our failures and the shame of it all.
There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that's a shame.
