Your shamelessnessis balanced with gold for you at every step.
Even when my shamelessness makes them not know where to look.
Eva's face was all inflamed and convulsed with sobs, but she did not dream of covering it--she was full of the holy shamelessness of grief and joy.
But we must contrive a harmonious blending of the two, that shall remove the shamelessness of pertinacity, and the weakness of excessive modesty; seeing its cure is difficult, and the correction of such excesses not without danger.
He was curious about this, because he could not conceive any shamelessness too outrageous for Barnes to reveal.
Josephina, accustomed now to being naked, posed with unconscious abandon, with that feminine shamelessness which hesitates only at the first step.
To such an extent were they filled with greed and shamelessness that one man asked from Caesar himself the property of Attia, Caesar's mother, who had died at the time and had been honored by a public burial.
It is impossible for a person brought up in so great licentiousness and shamelessness to avoid defiling his entire life: and so from his private concerns he brought his lewdness and greed to bear upon public matters.
As for myself, if I had even the will, I could not have summoned the shamelessness to offer any opposition to the measure.
So far as I have seen of foreign life, Tom, shamelessness is the grand characteristic, and I grieve to say that one picks up the indecency much easier than the irregular verbs.
Wherefore a Christian ought to have nothing to do with the madness of the circus, with the shamelessness of the theatre, with the cruelty of the amphitheatre, with the atrocity of the arena, with the luxury of the ludus.
In the case of this gem there is also a most manifest proof of the shamelessness of the magi, because they say its wearer is not visible if he takes an infusion of the plant heliotrope and in addition utters certain charms.
Even where provision is made for this lust, secrecy also is provided; and while lust found it easy to remove the prohibitions of law, shamelessness found it impossible to lay aside the veil of retirement.
The one thing he seemed in earnest about was sensual pleasure, and he took his pleasure with a cynical shamelessness which roused the disgust even of his shameless courtiers.
To graces such as these the rakes of the Restoration added a shamelessness and a brutality which passes belief.
I said this the other day when I was shocked at the shamelessnessof my son-in-law, who was furious at my going to Madrid to find the child.
Whence come you back so at night-time, you that wear shamelessness as a garment?
For the man who gives willingly, even though he gives a great thing, rejoices in his gift and is glad in heart; but whoever gives way to shamelessness and takes something himself, even though it be a small thing, it freezes his heart.
But if in wishing to serve her thou cast away these things, what wilt thou profit her then, when perfected in shamelessness and faithlessness?
Thus, too, the works of reverence save the reverent man, and those of shamelessness destroy him.
The emperor, then absent in Ostia, was informed of the shamelessness of his wife.
The court became a scene of cabals and crimes, disgraced by the wanton shamelessness of the empress and the venality of courtiers.
This story is ordinarily told as though the old man did not see the unfavorable significance of his words; but it is probable that, he uttered them wittingly and with, a sneer--in the cynicism and shamelessness of old age.
The very worst corruption(102) which we meet with in the idol worship and demon worship of Greeks and Romans was the shamelessness which pandered to all lusts of the flesh under cover of religion.
See, O emperor, into what a depth of shamelessness and inhumanity you have thrust yourself.
These words he had the callous shamelessnessto utter in the very presence and hearing of the ambassadors[n] whom you had summoned from the Hellenic states, in pursuance of the advice which he himself had given you, before he had sold himself.
Even impertinence will not save our essays upon ourselves from being tedious--nor will shamelessness in the flaunting of our vices.
Its buoyant and resilient energy, full of the unconquerable irreverence and glorious shamelessness of youth, takes life fairly by the throat and mocks it and defies it to its face.
But, thought Des Esseintes, this sickly shamelessness often obstructed the inventive sallies of the casuist.
Antoine Macquart lived on his wife and children with as much shamelessness and impudence.
