How To Use Abash In A Sentence

  • Paraguay tea, which they call matte, as I mentioned before, is always drunk twice a day: this is brought upon a large silver salver, with four legs raised upon it, to receive a little cup made out of a small calabash or gourd, and tipped with silver. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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  • Sparing us all the obligatory arguments about Ford “defining the American West” with his sweeping, desolate camera shots and Wayne’s anabashedly American Americanness, there’s just no denying that Ford and Wayne — tag team partners on more than 20 films — are simply one of the most prolific duos in celluloid history. Top 10 Actor / Director Tandems In Movie History | Best Week Ever
  • Music has always had a tendency to glance back over its shoulder at the past, but the last few years has seen an unabashed spate of revivalism, from 60s garage rock posturing to the soi-disant Electro Clash phenomenon.
  • The highlight of President Bush’s European tour may well be his visit on Sunday to this tiny country, one of the few places left where he can bask in unabashed pro-American sentiment without a protester in sight. Someone Likes Him
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  • More homegrown products to enjoy include the legendary heroes of Lucha Libre: those uniquely Mexican wrestling creations who shifted their considerable weight from the lucha ring to the silver screen, and the accompanying lobby cards for their unabashedly shlocky movies are quite often classics. The lurid artistry of the Mexican lobby card
  • ‘Funnily enough, yes, I am,’ he answered, not at all abashed by my question.
  • Tabasheer , safflower and calamine can clear away lung heat, expel toxic heat, sedate mind, and calm fright. Savory rhododendron leaf can clear away heat, diminish swelling, and tonify kidney.
  • The painting raises another question: how can native Hawaiians preserve ancient traditions within the calabash of ideas and cultures that is contemporary Hawaii?
  • An unabashed populist and publicity seeker he is one of their key fundraisers and fixers.
  • Amazed and abashed she stole back to her chamber.
  • He stopped and crossed his eyes, his expression conveying abashment.
  • I've written before of an earlier generation of MPs who were unabashed propagandists for Stalin, and there is an inglorious tradition of Labour MPs who serve the propaganda interests of despotism.
  • But in that typically unabashed and upfront Californian way - though she was actually born in Phoenix, Arizona - she refuses to be coy about the band's bacchanalian excesses.
  • Critics say it is the product of unabashed and unjustifiable price gouging. Times, Sunday Times
  • Carne (who had taken most kindly to the fortune which made him an untrue Englishman) clapped his breast with both hands; not proudly, as a Frenchman does, nor yet with that abashment and contempt of demonstration which make a true Briton very clumsy in such doings; while Daniel Tugwell, being very solid, and by no means “emotional” — as people call it nowadays — was looking at him, to the utmost of his power Springhaven
  • When, in the middle of the the first season, callow account exec Pete Campbell walks past striving-to-be-a-copywriter secretary Peggy Olson's desk without acknowledging her, Peggy's incremental comprehension of her powerlessness with this guy she's had sex with is documented in her face's shift from anticipation to abashment to acceptance. Sheila Weller: Mad Hopes for the Mad Men Women
  • Tim appeared unabashed by all the media attention.
  • The calabash is the fruit from the national tree and it resembles a coconut from the outside, but smooth. Jounen Kweyol
  • Having done this, she gave the sand and water a rotatory motion, so as to make a part of the sand and water fly over the brim of the calabash. The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805
  • She receives wonderfully sympathetic support from a tight-knit cast of sidemen, and adds her own fiddle, organ and calabash textures. Times, Sunday Times
  • “Bonderro” is a corruption of the Lusitanianized imbundeiro, the calabash, or adansonia (digitata?): the other baobab is called nkondo, probably the Aliconda and Elicandy of Battel and old travellers, who describe the water-tanks hollowed in its huge trunk, and the cloth made from the bark fibre. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • Joy's an unabashed, flag-waving patriot who joined the Air Force to serve his country.
  • In her life and throughout her oeuvre, she unabashedly appropriated the prerogative of the fetishistic gaze associated with the masculine observer.
  • They unabashedly explain the techniques they use to tug at viewers' heartstrings.
  • The off-stage reserve gave way to unabashed youthful enthusiasm when they were playing, with Laura bouncing around most of the time like a human pogo stick.
  • Humane but unsentimental, unabashedly artsy but instantly approachable, this is a movie for just about everybody.
  • I think that was all probably kind of childish and stupid but by this basic standard (a poseur is one who postures) isn’t the whole New Republic thing (with the exception of the unabashedly lib pieces) pretty much a national journal of poseurdom? joe from Lowell Says: Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
  • NOT A LOT OF SYMPATHY FOR UMPS: Speaking of the umpires, this columnist is an unabashed admirer of many of them. Covering baseball for USATODAY.com.Torre's dilemma: Choosing No. 1 starter
  • Then he gave another whoop significant of the extreme of nervous abashedness and the incipient defiance of his masculine estate, there was a flourish of heels, followed by a swift glimmering slide of steel, and he was off trailing his sled. The Portion of Labor
  • The traditional kora, a stringed calabash instrument, symbolizes the singing poet tradition in the country.
  • An unabashed populist, Besson doesn't make movies for critics.
  • Some are large calabashes (a type of gourd) with leather drumheads and are played with the hands.
  • I dashed after her and caught up with her outside where she stood unabashed and unembarrassed staring around her.
  • In 1880, arc lights were mounted on huge towers in Wabash, Indiana, illuminating the entire city.
  • The girl was abashed by the laughter of her classmates.
  • More than once Governor Harrison had asked for authority to raise an army with which to "scour" the Wabash territory. The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond
  • Have you seen an article by Matt Labash in the November 24, 1997 issue of The Weekly Standard?
  • His unabashed Eurocentrism would gladden George Will's wizened heart, but he hasn't yet outed himself as a flaming Italophile. Boing Boing
  • He's an unabashed, old-fashioned romantic.
  • The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.
  • Such princes fear nothing, and are never abashed; they are on familiar terms with the audience, and interpellate the bystanders, which was a sure cause of merriment, but not of good order. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
  • They also have colorful gift shop filled with traditional arts and crafts, such as slate carvings, wood carvings, jipijapa baskets, calabash, Mopan Maya clothing, and jewelry. Archive 2006-11-01
  • Unabashedly physical, the surfaces of Bhavsar's canvases luxuriate in a granular abundance of color.
  • Australian TV executives were wary of such a project and its unabashed depiction of such swaggering women but Riley and Turner persevered and eventually won the day, delivering a classy, confident spoof of suburban sybarites.
  • The Mayumbe near the coast paint calabashes, decorating them with hunting scenes and colorful geometric designs.
  • He had brought with him a coconut calabash, tightly stoppered, of whale-oil that must have been landed on Lahaina beach thirty years before. SHIN-BONES
  • The winner would then take on incumbent Democrat Ed Rendell - an unabashed Eagles fan.
  • He unabashedly hits on women and has wanton sex with several women (not at the same time) - something Alex never would have done but always wanted to.
  • You can't even begin to imagine how many things I end up describing as a "thingo" or "dealy" a term I unabashedly stole from a Simpsons episode several years ago. Tomato & Fetta thingo
  • In fact, our unabashed dictionary describes a road as a strip of metalled surface connecting potholes.
  • A typical breakfast might consist of corn porridge eaten with a spoon made of a small, elongated calabash split in half.
  • Several series of images from this visit depict techniques, ranging from weaving and basketry to pottery making and calabash carving.
  • After about fifteen minutes of this, the dancing and drumming stopped and a clay calabash, twelve inches across, was filled with water and handed to the witch doctor, together with a small palm leaf.
  • Her cheeks growing red, she looked to Adam, and brushing aside her own abashment, revealed, ‘We've heard all about your recent adventures, and my, my, have you two ever been busy!’
  • The baobab (adansonia) is apparently of two kinds, the “Imbundeiro,” hung with long-stringed calabashes, which forms swarming-places for bees; and the “Aliconda” (Nkondo), whose gourd is almost sessile, and whose bark supplies fibre for cloth and ropes. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • Critics say it is the product of unabashed and unjustifiable price gouging. Times, Sunday Times
  • I will however admit to occasionally, when I feel particularly embarrassed for my unabashed public monologues, pretending to be singing instead, like "* mumble mumble* I really should complete my masterplan for world domination today Popular Posts Across MetaFilter
  • We wash the food down with a calabash full of palm wine - it's a natural drink made from the dew and the juices of the palm tree.
  • Artists cast sculptures in bronze and brass, produce glass and metal work, and make quality leatherwork and calabash carvings.
  • Mrs. Dambar, abashed in the face of such energy, such creativity, was ready to go home. SORT OF RICH
  • To facilitate quick thickening of the cream the root of the munkudi plant is added to the calabash.
  • Zirin, the nation’s most unabashedly progressive sportswriter, writes as colorfully as any classic sportswriter from years gone by, and his passion for the games he covers shines through everything he writes. Sam Pizzigati: A Game-Day 'Program' for the NFL Lockout
  • grows even more touching with the response of the citizens of Wabash to his disability.
  • In fact, it does have a handful of outrageous moments, but surprisingly, it's overall one of the most unabashedly, old-fashioned Broadway musical comedies I've seen.
  • They were born to debate and disputation, abashed by no authority established over them, brash and as spirited as cats.
  • # -- Round their villages and pahs they dug up the soil and planted the sweet potato, and the taro, which is the root of a kind of arum lily; they also grew the gourd called calabash, from whose hard rind they made pots and bowls and dishes. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890
  • Women engrave designs into yellow calabash gourds.
  • Chadian craftsmen produce musical instruments of extremely high quality using materials such as wood, animal guts and horns, and calabashes.
  • At the funeral of Nanan Toto Kra, a Baoule Akan, Mossi men dance with calabash rattles.
  • Abashed, I stared at him speechless, trying to form words.
  • Resplendent in his uniform and medals, [Forest] Whitaker's Amin is a gloriously mad and grandiloquent figure, conceived by screenwriters Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock as a Day-Glo Shakespearean monster, with audacious hints of Othello and even Titus Andronicus, a monster for whom they have written boldly extended dialogue scenes of unabashed intelligence and theatricality," writes the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw. GreenCine Daily: Baftas. Nominations.
  • This is an opera unlike any other - an unabashed paean to music, to nature, and to the mystical path to joy seen in the figure of Francis (sung movingly by baritone Willard White).
  • So it was ordered, that after the pleadings of both sides was ended, they thought best to try and boult out the verity by witnesses, all presumptions and likelihood set apart, and to call in the servant, who onely was reported to know all the matter: by and by the servant came in, who nothing abashed, at the feare of so great a judgment, or at the presence of the The Golden Asse
  • “We are impounding their bikes and want to take them to court so they can explain why they think wearing a calabash is good enough for their safety,” he said. Nigerian vegetable helmets | clusterflock
  • Grab the chance to laugh with someone who's excited and unabashed.
  • Instead, he fled the country until, abashed by a public outcry and newspaper appeals to find him, he contacted his family and his father fetched him home.
  • I fancy, that, when he sat at the laird's table, (Sir Walter's,) and called the laird's lady by her baptismal name, and -- not abashed in any presence -- uttered his Gaelic gibes for the wonderment of London guests, -- that he thought far more of himself than the world has ever been inclined to think of him. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
  • Hopefully, the $60 billion war funding bill that the Senate "easily passed" yesterday will serve as some some solace from their unimaginable abashment, and they somehow find the strength to show their face at their Memorial Day picnics. Democrats Simply Cannot Find the Time to Pass Unemployment Benefit Extension, Because, You Know | Indecision Forever | Political Humor, 2010 Election, and Satire Blog | Comedy Central
  • As an unabashed keeper of the Feast of Christmas, I choose to rub shoulders with the forces of jollification, merriment, and solemnity.
  • The book is an unabashed paean to the actresses, and their roles, who account for so much of its interest.
  • Lafayette, Ind. -- Wabash National Corporation (NYSE: WNC) reported year-overyear operating improvements across several key financial and operating metrics. Headlines - Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick
  • Just one listen to the sweet dobro and accordion peeking through the unabashedly tender song and you realize that he is still as much of a romantic as ever.
  • The smell of the ‘lakh’ [Senegalese food prepared from roughly kneaded millet flour, which is cooked in water and eaten with curds] cooling in the calabashes pervades the air.
  • Artists cast sculptures in bronze and brass, produce glass and metal work, and make quality leatherwork and calabash carvings.
  • Note 56: To rent additional camels for the transport of Durrani state property the qafilabashi relied on a number of "tahsil thekadars," who functioned as brokers in Peshawar's animal labor market and received an anna or one sixteenth of a rupee on each camel they provided. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • The Nevada race represented perhaps the starkest showdown in the national battle between the Tea Party insurgency and the Obama/Dem vision, with Angle unabashedly arguing for dramatically scaled back or even non-existent government against Reid, the leading enabler of the Obama agenda. Harry Reid wins!
  • On Lovers' Lane nearby, some young men and women were flirting, while in the corner under a calabash tree some older men sat debating as to whether or not pawpaw leaves were the best bait for catching angel fish.
  • The sheer audacity of this album, its unabashed confidence and sense of drama is jaw dropping.
  • An unabashed exploitation flick, this is visceral in its thrills and efficient in its storytelling. Times, Sunday Times
  • He promptly relaxed in the comfort of the cushioned chair and put his feet unabashedly on the footstool, pleased to be given this privilege.
  • Although the Kalenjin are not well known for their handicrafts, women do make and locally sell decorated calabashes from gourds.
  • We certainly hope so - we own it, and are unabashedly biased in its favor.
  • Magdelene is cheerfully lecherous and unabashedly lazy (as Huff puts it in the Afterword) which means that she's not going to hustle around saving people like a superhero.
  • IWC Schaffhausen has produced only a hand full of women's watches but the brand's unabashedly masculine output has been seen on female wrists lately, including those of Cate Blanchett and Elle Macpherson. An Icon That Withstands the Test of Time
  • Note 35: The countersigned receipts associated with the monopoly drew the fruit carrying kuchis to the attention of the Durrani state official responsible for the transmission of state property, especially that purchased with subsidy money, from Peshawar to Kabul, the qafilabashi (see Chapter 5). Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • One day, while carrying him about, I picked up a large gourd called a calabash, and, having cleared out the inside, I pressed into it the juice of grapes. Favorite Fairy Tales
  • Around them at the different tables there were groups of faces and figures fascinating in their strangeness, with that distinction which abashes our American level in the presence of European inequality. Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete
  • The tone of its letter isn't quite as mealy-mouthed and abashed as I'd hoped. Alfred Gingold: 'Chase Home Weasel' Backs off
  • Despite the fact that wooden milk pails are increasingly replaced by plastic and aluminium containers, calabashes still play an important role in the lives of the Kavango.
  • They are aromatic and impart to the fruit the odor and flavor of nutmeg; hence they are also known as calabash nutmegs. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
  • Bernstein was unabashed about using a full-sized orchestra in this repertoire.
  • In the early part of the 1800s, the area was extensively planted with maize, potatoes, kumara, taro, calabashes, melons and pumpkins.
  • ‘I just know I forgot to turn the water off,’ she whispered, abashed.
  • On the contrary, the raw and prolix language of his novels is unabashedly unpoetic and polemical.
  • # -- Round their villages and pahs they dug up the soil and planted the sweet potato, and the taro, which is the root of a kind of arum lily; they also grew the gourd called calabash, from whose hard rind they made pots and bowls and dishes. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890
  • She instantly looked abashed and bowed her head.
  • He didn't seem the least abashed that water was running down his chin and onto his clothes and that the people who were passing by were giving him weird looks.
  • Up the street from my house in Jerusalem, is the house George Habash supposedly lived in as a boy.
  • In honour of my fellow Yellowknifer Janet Pacey and her unabashed love of ptarmigans I finally got off my haunches (which is defined as “the fleshy hindquarter of an animal” – definitely suitable) and got some ptarmigan shots. Ptarmigan Town » Dave Brosha Photography
  • A calabash basin consists of a basin that sits above a toilet cistern.
  • Her £450, mirror-trimmed "monokini" was designed by Melissa Odabash, the American designer, based in London, who knows how to turn a swimsuit into the hottest thing since Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • Katherine was slightly abashed at his forwardness and lingered outside of the house, not really wanting to go in.
  • It was a scene of unabashed joy. Times, Sunday Times
  • But he is not only a fine actor and an even finer dancer he is also uncommonly and unabashedly sexy.
  • Hilles may have a spare, muscular style of writing, but he is unabashed when it comes to expressing his affection for Luke.
  • Obama unabashedly explained how he became "churched" in a 2007 speech: "It's around that time [while working as an organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) of the Calumet Community Religious Conference (CCRC) in Chicago] that some pastors I was working with came around and asked if I was a member of Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • There were occasions when the pride of the British tar was not abashed at being called a dockyard loafer, but these were rare. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century
  • This was nothing compared with the unabashed pro-Americanism of their declaration.
  • She gawked unabashedly at the passing scenery, then stared wide-eyed as the car came to a halt in the shadow of the huge home.
  • unabashedly, he asked for more
  • In the grey light before dawn I woke and saw a line of women pass silently in single file with calabashes on their heads going to collect water from the muddy hollows of a dying river.
  • Never fear, there was a Makarram Khan,13 until I shot him on my last furlough; he will give thee a shabash* (* Hurrah, bravo.) from hell, for he was a stout rider in his time. Fiancée
  • The unabashedly poetic film depicts the turmoil experienced by a group of adolescents over the course of a summer in a dilapidated Southern town.
  • They also make calabashes (decorated gourds used as utensils).
  • Toshinori Inoue, head of tourism in Abashiri, says the melting drift ice is an obvious indicator of global warming.
  • When the band stopped playing, and Ellen, who as valedictorian came last as the crown and capsheaf of it all, stepped forward from the semicircle of white-clad girls and seriously abashed boys, there was The Portion of Labor
  • It is refreshingly unabashed in its sexuality and eroticism.
  • I heard friends burbling with unabashed, redole(sc)ent joy at seeing the first Pulp comeback show at Spain's Primavera festival in May (which I was meant to have attended), and then witnessed it myself in London in July - the band absolutely owning the stage, the audience and the venue (it's surely no surprise their 1998 live DVD, also filmed in London, was titled The Park Is Mine) at Wireless. Charlie Ivens: Where now for Resurrected Left-Pop Iconoclasts Pulp?
  • Competing trade documents prompted tangible social interaction between state functionaries such as the Peshawar qafilabashi and the Jamrud darogha, and between each of those officials and the nomads, as documents from 1896 indicate. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • Boys aged 13 wore calabash sheaths; aged 15, sheaths were of civet or wild cat fur, which they could decorate with the tail from the pelt at 17.
  • When the child died a few days after, the prophet was abashed, and quite unable to account for this summary confutation.
  • Lorelei looked down onto her hands in abashment.
  • The media are agog over the latest accusation that Republican presidential candidate and unabashed and shameless co-opter of all that is 9/11 Rudy Giuliani may have hidden costs for security details guarding him whilst "trysting the night away" with his then putative paramour and now wife, Judy Nathan, at her Hamptons love shack. Lionel: What Rudy/Judy Really Did That Was Wrong
  • It is the new element, the higher something which abashes the unabashed, and makes John, who caused Henry's nose to bleed, tremble when little The Uncalled A Novel
  • Then the judge was much abashed, and commanded to take quick lime and vinegar meddled together, and made it to avale into his throat, and after did do put out his eyes. The Golden Legend, vol. 4
  • Unfortunately, the 1,236-word obit never once uses the "t" word that would best sum up Habash's life -- "terrorist. CAMERA Snapshots
  • A former boxer and self-taught architect, his brash style and unabashed criticisms of Japanese society over the past three decades have made him an influential maverick in his home country. Building Anew Out of Tsunami's Rubble
  • On the contrary, the raw and prolix language of his novels is unabashedly unpoetic and polemical.
  • Unabashedly physical, the surfaces of his canvases luxuriate in a granular abundance of color.
  • Even this one, which will stay fresh for as long as a calabash of fish in the sun. BLOOD IS DIRT
  • A couple of spades, a trowel and a calabash were their only tools, but our adventurer was a knowing man, and "knowledge is power. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
  • Dishes are served traditionally in the dried calabash - the fruit of the island's national plant.
  • It goes for an unabashedly arcade feel, eschewing the grit and authenticity of DiRT 3 in favour of a smoother, floatier handling model that won't have you troubling the brakes too often. This week's new games
  • Vangelis hardly answered: he seemed abashed by their vigour, and reluctant to remember. COUP D'ETAT
  • This was pretty much the public face of Amy Winehouse that society obsessed over: the zoned out, stoned out girl with streaked mascara eyes, long stumbly bumbly legs, wild hair, an unabashed undoctored nose, and a mouth that was loud and defiant and unrepentant. Charles Shaw: Chasing Amy: Prohibition & the Infantilization Of Addiction
  • Planted between chromatic saxophone swells, honeydew tongues of piano and eddying synth pulses, the childish coo of Caroline Lufkin discloses a fey, unabashed sentimentalism that is hard to dislike.
  • The calabash was the _ipu_ here mentioned, the same as the Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
  • Unabashedly aromatic with garlic, olive oil, rosemary, and sage, it perfumes the entire kitchen with a warm and welcome mid-winter rush of fresh herbs.
  • I've watched and loved the unabashedly girly dramedy Gilmore Girls from its very first episode, which's an accomplishment considering it's been on the WB for four years now.
  • Nawin looked directly into the man's incarnadined, sun burnt face and his furrows of coarse wrinkling skin, and the old man, though abashed, grinned and nodded once as if grateful that the younger man not only acknowledged his existence but saw his worth in it. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
  • Emily and Anne, unbeknown to them both under heavy scrutiny, were unabashedly shocked. ON A WICKED DAWN
  • Over several seasons, the hems mutated from slinky calf-length and ankle-length tanks and tubular skirts to voluminous, unabashedly romantic pavement sweepers, looks that Nevena Borissova, a partner in Curve, a vanguard boutique in SoHo, describes as "floaty, let's-go-get-high-at-Coachella stuff. The Seattle Times
  • Nowhere was his unique mix of intelligence and unabashed geekiness on display more than when he talked about the superhero.
  • He had a sick daughter and a wife who'd had to take to the streets selling live chickens from a calabash. BLOOD IS DIRT
  • The unabashed display of political partisanship certainly added some spice to an otherwise lackluster campaign.
  • Unabashed in its assertion of heart amidst perpetually complex and highly-integrated displays of structured defectiveness that are ingeniously and rhythmically played out through relatable everyday situations, this multi-dimensional testament to the complexity, ridiculousness and awkward clumsiness of multi-tiered family relations strikes a sentimental chord on just the right frequency. Hulu.com: The Top 10 TV Comedies of 2011
  • I feel like if I once turned loose people would begin to call Senator Beveridge the Grand Young Sphinx of the Wabash.
  • The sun had an angry look, and a few light, fleecy "nigger-heads" in that quarter seemed abashed and frightened and soon disappeared. Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
  • Peul musicians play handcrafted flutes, drums, and string instruments, and they use calabashes to beat out rhythms.
  • Clearing his throat, the man sent her a truly abashed expression.
  • And still he seems so delicate, so crushable in his unabashed good-goodness. Why we must savour the rare English delicacy that is Jack Wilshere
  • They were pictured chatting about the benefits of organic food in a food hall resplendent with purple calabash tomatoes, butternut chutney and smoked salmon from the Shetland Islands packaged in wrappers adorned with hearts.
  • I haven't read those books, and note only that they show the comics world's unabashed happiness with adaptations and spin-offs of other people's work, an enterprise that the world of literary fiction tends to look down on (unless, of course, it's an exercise in postmodernism). No Escape
  • For having terrified him by what he had said before; first cutting him off and delivering him to Satan, and then reminding him of that day which is coming; he abashes him again by saying, "Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ?" thenceforth speaking as to children of noble birth. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
  • The chalk-like substance - also known as calabash clay, nzu, poto, calabar stone, mabele, argile or la craie - can be sold as large pellets or in blocks that resemble clay or mud. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • In Jean Renoir's magnificent, near morbid class structure comedy The Rules of the Game, we learn that the most insular of communities, the supposedly noble aristocracy, is filled with liars, cheats, and unabashed adulterers.
  • As sentimental as it sounds, the BHQF's most valuable offering is a community that admits, unabashedly, its love for art, and recommits itself to art daily despite all of the competition, all of the insecurity, all of the perversion, and without needing to prove its right to be there. Selby Drummond: Artists Anonymous: The Irresistible Earnestness of the Bruce High Quality Foundation
  • Nothing surprises or abashes him, he bows profoundly to Sir Harry and Lady Parkes when he encounters them, but is obviously “quite at home” in a Legation, and only allowed one of the orderlies to show him how to put on a Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
  • ‘How is Ms Sinclair?’ she asked with a steely undernote that should have abashed him. The Rich Man's Royal Mistress
  • Just here I rise to remark: For effective purposes one must not be unduly sensitive or overmodest in writing autobiography -- for, being the events and memoirs of his life, written by himself, the ever-present pronoun "I" dances in such lively attendance and in such profusion on the pages that whatever pride he may have in the events they chronicle is somewhat abashed at its repetition. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century
  • When their curiosity was satisfied, they then appeared to consider our condition, and having obtained the old king's permission, they brought us a calabash full of cush-cush, that is Guinea corn boiled into a thick paste. The Privateer's-Man One hundred Years Ago
  • In Makarou they played calabashes ringed with cowrie shells, creating a wonderful sound to accompany this joyous, fast-paced dance.
  • Their unabashed experimentalism lifts Demon Days far beyond the ‘urban’ label it will probably be stamped with.
  • Many nations have unabashedly followed the American model of development.
  • She stared at him with unabashed curiosity.
  • I had enough gin in me to play along in unabashed, abandoned delight.
  • The goombay beat time, and the dancers rattled or tinkled the woody seed-cases of the sand-box tree set on long handles and with each of their lobes painted a separate vivid color; rattles of basketwork; and calabashes filled with pebbles and shells. The Flower of the Chapdelaines
  • Depictions of unrelated people in multifarious clothes in a divergence of locations linked by the common element of unabashed sensuality. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
  • When their curiosity was satisfied, they then appeared to consider our condition, and having obtained the old king's permission, they brought us a calabash full of cush-cush, that is, The Privateersman
  • No matter where they paid their fees, the nomads received a pass for their expenditure from the Peshawar qafilabashi that was necessary for them to be formally received by the darogha or British official stationed at Jamrud, the eastern "gate" of the Khaibar Pass. 57 The nomads 'textual, fiscal, and physical engagement of the Peshawar qafilabashi was ostensibly confined to the animals used to convey Durrani state property to Kabul. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • Unabashed royalism fits in with that. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the new morality, the eroticism of Chinese lyrics was unabashed, polymorphous, and just plain sexy.
  • But also, from its incipience around 1968, liberation theology has been surrounded by controversy because of its often-unabashed association with Marxist analysis.
  • The baobab (adansonia) is apparently of two kinds, the "Imbundeiro," hung with long - stringed calabashes, which forms swarming-places for bees; and the "Aliconda" (Nkondo), whose gourd is almost sessile, and whose bark supplies fibre for cloth and ropes. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
  • In his recent exhibition of paintings and sculptures, he presents himself as an unabashed maximalist.
  • They sat around and listened with abashed smiles as Carlo Marx read them his apocalyptic, mad poetry.
  • For as he that only punishes a sin and does nothing to point out its most extreme lawlessness, produces no such great effect by his chastisement: so again, he who only abashes and fails to terrify by his mode of punishing, does not very keenly hit men of hardened minds. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
  • But on the fiends He fastened bonds of torment, and thrust them down into the depths of darkness, bitterly abashed, where darkly Satan rules, a woeful wretch, and with him the foul fiends, forspent with pain. Codex Junius 11
  • Supporters of the play may think that now 'there are none' to stand up and respond, but this too is a sign of deep and abiding ignorance - the same ignorance that allows them to unabashedly use the name 'Lakota' and stick 'tomahawks' in the helmets of their team. Agatha Christie Banned in Ohio
  • Bonderro" is a corruption of the Lusitanianized imbundeiro, the calabash, or adansonia (digitata?): the other baobab is called nkondo, probably the Aliconda and Elicandy of Battel and old travellers, who describe the water-tanks hollowed in its huge trunk, and the cloth made from the bark fibre. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
  • Each mouthful is so poignant, however, that our appetite, if not assuaged, is at least abashed.
  • Another popular instrument is the seigureh, which consists of stones in a rope-bound calabash.
  • Walking down the dark hall, groping the walls, was Northeast Philly in all its unabashed intimacy.
  • Passivity, in the face of such a bold, unabashed show of power from above, appears to be the order of the day.
  • She presented a slide show of unabashed science-class geekiness.
  • Round the outside of some of these rings was a slow fire, which just singes the tops of the bits of rubber vine as they project over the collar or ring, and causes the milky juice to run out of the lower end into the calabash, giving out as it does so a strong ammoniacal smell. Travels in West Africa
  • He is known for swinging unabashed through his corporate environment, baffling corridor lurkers with bright smiles and a radiant happiness with life.
  • She smiled at him and later looked away, abashed, at his unwavering stare.
  • The punky couple gave me a disdainful look, and I could only slink out abashed.

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