How To Use Abashed In A Sentence

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
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.

An unabashed populist and publicity seeker he is one of their key fundraisers and fixers.
Amazed and abashed she stole back to her chamber.
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
Tim appeared unabashed by all the media attention.
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
An unabashed populist, Besson doesn't make movies for critics.
I dashed after her and caught up with her outside where she stood unabashed and unembarrassed staring around her.
The girl was abashed by the laughter of her classmates.
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.
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
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 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.
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
Mrs. Dambar, abashed in the face of such energy, such creativity, was ready to go home. SORT OF RICH
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
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.
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
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
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.
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 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!
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.
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
The tone of its letter isn't quite as mealy-mouthed and abashed as I'd hoped. Alfred Gingold: 'Chase Home Weasel' Backs off
Bernstein was unabashed about using a full-sized orchestra in this repertoire.
‘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.
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.
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
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
The unabashedly poetic film depicts the turmoil experienced by a group of adolescents over the course of a summer in a dilapidated Southern town.
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?
When the child died a few days after, the prophet was abashed, and quite unable to account for this summary confutation.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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.
Depictions of unrelated people in multifarious clothes in a divergence of locations linked by the common element of unabashed sensuality. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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.
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.
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
Each mouthful is so poignant, however, that our appetite, if not assuaged, is at least abashed.
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.
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.
They sat around and listened with abashed smiles as Carlo Marx read them his apocalyptic, mad poetry.
For the most part, however, this collection is unabashedly geared toward Reagan fans.
Furthermore, even the most innocuous posts about Israel attract trolls who frequently engage in unabashed Jew-baiting. Global Voices in English » Lebanon: Academics and Bloggers Call for Israel Boycott
Judar, at whose sight the parent was put to shame and confusion, fearing lest he should be wroth with her; and she bowed her face earthwards abashed before her son. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Au Pied de Cochon is an unabashed celebration of carnivorousness.
They interviewed Madison -- and Madison talked to them gravely, quietly, a little self-deprecatingly, a little abashed at the thought of personal exploitage. The Miracle Man
This book was unabashed nihilist claptrap.
I did not know what to say, for I was abashed by the thought.
His unabashed pinky-extended criticism almost always gives an enjoyable read.
Gradually, the adoration turns into unabashed devotion, as people try to clamber onto the stage.
He saw that she was not abashed and glared even more.
I'm sure, I'm greatly obliged to you, gentlemen, and I hask a thousand pardons for troublin 'you," she concluded in a somewhat severe tone, that left them abashed and culpable; and vanished as mysteriously as she had appeared. Complete March Family Trilogy
She watched unabashedly, pinching her nipples before delving her fingers between those mouthwateringly beautiful folds. Ecstasy in Darkness
Martins's two short ballets, both to John Adams music, are unabashed make-work.
Delightful haven to pigeon-hearted malefactors -- inconsistent criminals, who fear the puny look of mortal man, and, unabashed, stalk beneath the eternal and the killing frown of God. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
Katherine was slightly abashed at his forwardness and lingered outside of the house, not really wanting to go in.
Leaving behind reproductive matters entirely, the site also indulged in unabashed sexual advocacy, offering a 411 on oral sex. Are You There God? It's Me, Monica
stood in the doorway diffident and abashed
The man who is bigger, who can outyell and outstare us, who can hit us without our hitting him, and who can keep us from moving, does originally extort a crestfallen, abashed physique and mind. Human Traits and their Social Significance
And on this evening success stood at his back, patting him on the shoulder and telling him that he was making good, so that he could afford to laugh and make laughter and remain unabashed. Chapter 27
felt abashed at the extravagant praise
Papers were unabashed party cheerleaders, rooting openly for their candidates and leading the way in smearing the candidate of the opposing party. The Complete History of Dirty Politics: A Q&A on Anything for a Vote - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
The fascinations of freedom beguile the ardent and noble aspirations of the English democracy, and Britannia, with her antiquated and wrinkled visage, shrinks abashed from the majestic presence of Freedom's immortal and fadeless bloom! The Right of American Slavery
I felt a bit abashed, edging past her with my shoes as high above my head as I could carry them. THE MANANA MAN
But she grinned and looked abashed, and muttered something about her grandchildren.
The lyrics are unabashedly syrupy and therefore, cheesy.
Champagne typical in its brilliance of color, meticulous rendering of detail, compact composition, and unabashed abundance.
This unabashedly meaningless affair wholeheartedly subscribes to the more-is-better recipe for cinematic second instalments.
He broke an unwritten rule for Aberdeen players in being unabashed about his fanaticism for Celtic during his Dumbarton upbringing.
It's an unabashed, well-written love story. Globe and Mail
By lowering the axe on social spending and slashing the taxes on corporations and the rich, the Liberals are realigning social policy to unabashedly serve the private, egoistic needs of big business.
Both girls fixed their eyes on the ground, abashed.
It's Hollywood, " Bryant said with unabashed glee. " It's a movie script.
They are also the friendliest and most unabashedly contrite with ‘Aww, shucks!’
To be “at home” in the World of Interiors, one rapidly gathers, is to bask in the privacy of your own space, serene and unabashed, while the rest of the world goes kaboom all around you. Home Alone
This is most certainly "a Cronenberg film" in that he is unabashedly presents a topic that most people overlook in their daily lives.
There, he restated his belief that the panel marked the origin of French painting and amplified his earlier praises of what he saw as the artist's unabashedly clear-sighted reproduction of the hapless king's blunt features.
They sashay along the red carpet, botox-smooth and silicone-enhanced, so blatantly vain and unabashedly full of themselves, spinning for scores of photographers.
Packs of dogs roam the streets of South America - collarless and brazen, unabashedly unneutered.
He glosses over inequities at home, simply arguing that ‘a society that is inegalitarian is one thing, but one that is unabashedly so is quite another.’
When Jo saw who it was, she looked slightly abashed.
Governments are incorrigible optimists; they believe unabashed self-promotion will yield electoral dividends.
His tones of salutation, at these moments, were soft, his manner respectful, even graceful; and while there was nothing of the abashedness of the inferior, there was also no offensive familiarity, in the occasional conversations held by him with the different individuals, or groups, who surrounded and accosted him. The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Complete
Music is, by implication, a solitary and almost monastic pursuit, one unabashedly privileged over friendship or love.
But he is not only a fine actor and an even finer dancer he is also uncommonly and unabashedly sexy.
Journalism depends on uncredentialed losers, outsiders, dilettantes, frustrated lawyers, unabashed alcoholics - and, yes, creative psychopaths - to keep its blood red.
The young lady looked abashed and stepped back consciously into the shadows.
But even his ideological enemies sneakingly admire his unabashed aggression, a quality rare in a city of trimmers and dissemblers.
I've called the set of all these functions or powers of the brain the "teleome" a name that emphasizes the unabashed teleology that's required to truly make sense of the brain, and is simultaneously designed to razz the "-ome" buzzwords like 'genome' and 'connectome'. Mark Changizi, Ph.D.: Artificial Brains: Not in This Century
They are resilient, honorable, loyal and unabashedly in love with their fighters, often serving as devoted father figures.
We certainly hope so - we own it, and are unabashedly biased in its favor.
Giambrone confirms that the team sought ceramics that ‘looked good’ to their eyes - eyes, like those of the audience to whom they pitched, that were unabashedly inexpert.
Janina a "comedienne" she had made him feel abashed with her simplicity and enthusiasm. Komediantka. English
The socio-cultural import and dramatic nature of such war imagery was not lost on Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow, who unabashedly tweeted in support: The first serious infowar is now engaged. Randall Amster: The Blog of War: WikiLeaks Exposes Business-as-Usual, and a New Battle Ensues
He looked abashed, uncomfortable.
Its body fascism is unabashed. Times, Sunday Times
She is to be seen standing on her tub shouting with the best; and as little abashed by the unwomanliness of her ‘environment’ as are her more mischievous compeers on the political stump.
The hyper colors reveal text that is unabashed in language and meaning.
Anyway, I think it's time I stop apologizing and instead start fessing up, with like, really unabashed, reckless, so-not-indie abandon.
He seems unabashed that Britain's monarch should have been involved in the handover. Times, Sunday Times
Critics say it is the product of unabashed and unjustifiable price gouging. Times, Sunday Times
The younger woman's unabashed romps arouse Sarah's curiosity, unleashing sexual dreams in her.
It's got a reputation is being a genre for meatheads, but a lot of bands are unabashed geeks. Author-friends, Meet Helen Walden
Many traditional leaders are unabashedly sovereigntists.
Their unabashed love affair may further contribute to the other parent feeling shut out. The Guide to Lesbian and Gay Parenting
I am not talking about too much authentic, unabashed, festive, bodacious self-expression - goodness knows there's too little of that going around.
The innkeepers, two unabashed gourmands by the name of Tony and Jerry, treat their guests to elaborate breakfasts and teas each day, and we quickly fell under the sway of their kitchen.
For that matter, why would the Soviets have picked someone as unabashedly antiestablishment as Jane to be a mole? A Covert Affair
a tinseled charm and unabashed sentimentality
Belinda in short plaid frocks and long pigtails, and had moreover visualised her as a freckled little girl with thin legs and snub nose, was abashed. The Clue of the Twisted Candle
It is less a macho comedy than what you might call a bromantic melodrama, an unabashed weepie with enough beer, sports, fistfights and cars to reassure the snuffling he-men in the audience that their tears are Not ... well, you know. NYT > Home Page
He seems unabashed by his recent defeat.
He now had carte blanche to pursue any major story in town and to inject his strong opinions unabashedly into his writings.
The depreciatory or vilificatory fashionable novel delights in exposing the peccadilloes, or imagined peccadilloes, (for it is all the same,) of young or old people of fashion: a gourmand peer, a titled demirep, a "desperate dandy," a black-leg, and a few such other respectable characters, are dialogued through the customary number of chapters, and conducted to the usual catastrophe: virtue is triumphant, vice abashed, towards the latter end of the last volume; and some low-born hero and heroine, introduced to exhibit, by contrast, the vices of the aristocracy, suddenly, and without any effort of their own, acquire large fortunes, perhaps titles, which it would have been just as easy to have given them at first—go to church in an orthodox manner, and set up a virtuous aristocracy of their own. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
He is a model of moral rectitude, unabashed pragmatism, voluminous machismo and carnal fortification.
The first track opens with a sound that resonates throughout the album, a sound that conjures feelings of grandeur and regalia in one breath, but falls away whimsically and abashed in the next.
He seems unabashed by his recent defeat.
To her credit, the blond looked slightly abashed.
When she caught him, she simply smiled up at him, unabashed by his staring and unembarrassed.
Who needs it?" called the unabashed Fran, looking over the banisters. Fran

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