Mr. Chiklis, 49, looked as abashed as a second-grader caught hurling chalk at the principal.

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Monroe, lost, needs a pal, and young Colin, abashed yet persistent, keeps showing up in her dressing room.

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Unfortunately, Joel is the autobiographical hero as abashed apologist, laying out and criticizing his experiences without exposing his core.

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In his Brooklyn office, he interviews a rather abashed and puzzled Robinson, who was playing in the Negro Leagues at the time.

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The friends, too young to be abashed by their own presumption, take on the slave-trade interests a good part of the upper class, which was making a fortune from it as a kind of consecrated adventure.

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When I told them I didn't have any butter because people had bought up all there was in the stores, one of our friends confessed, looking a little abashed, that she had six packs at home.

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But he was not abashed for long.

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