Like the writer Sheila Heti and the filmmaker Lena Dunham, Ocean is deciding what it means to talk about friendship, drugs, love, and sex, and is setting the parameters for shame and regret in a world in which failure is simply a way of saying hello.
That it became an issue of national debate and cause for national shame is entirely due to the impeccable character of Stephen and the dogged determination of his parents, Doreen and Neville Lawrence, that justice should be done.
And for the record, I'm using the word gay interchangeably with homosexual for the sake of conversation, because it really is a shame for perfectly good word pertaining to happiness to get associated it with the cultural taboo.
It was a shame for Enzo to go out like that after all he's done.
"It was a real shame for me as I had a good start, " said Vettel.
"The fact that you were assaulted is no cause for embarrassment or shame, " the judge said.
"This week's events mark a week of shame for the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland, " he said.
"It's a shame for Mark he's not further up the grid, " he said.
Everything has gone through him, and it's just a shame for him that he wasn't there at the end.
The whole situation over the last few weeks, even months, seems to be such a terrible shame for cricket in Zimbabwe.
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"It's a real shame for the spectators but obviously the players have got to take their own safety into account, " he said.
Another resident said the demolition was a "day of shame for Bournemouth".
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"It is a big shame for him as he has been very competitive in that scrum-half position, " Ruddock told BBC Hereford and Worcester.
"It's a shame for the team, the club and especially for the player because he is a very important member of the squad, " Rijkaard said.
This is a shame for a number of reasons, but from a public policy perspective it directly impacts the effectiveness of law enforcement more generally.
That's a shame for investors, because around 90% of the market's long-term return can be linked directly to dividends--the basic yield and then the growth over time of that coupon.
Such sentiments are still the exception in Germany, where a sense of obligation to help fellow Europeans in distress is rooted in shame for the crimes of the Third Reich.
That would be a terrible shame for participants.
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Why ought our American troopers have to hang their heads in shame for performin a tough, thankless job that few among us would be willing do at all and none would be able to perform as well?
What is a shame for the London team is that any adulation and respect which stemmed from their fairy tale European Champions League triumph last season has disappeared because of the defensive way they have reacted to criticism since then.
And I think that it would be a real shame for the girls of this country, and the boys too, to see another election where we only talk about how the wives look and sort of not what else they bring to the table.
There was no shame for the Tigers in losing their opening game to India, and they salvaged some pride by following this with a victory, albeit unconvincing, over Ireland - but they capitulated here in front of a large but increasingly disconsolate home support.
Reich was admitted to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association in 1920, while he was still a graduate student, and already a radical idea was percolating in his head: that sexuality, fundamental to our being, and yet a source of shame for centuries, had the power to heal much of what ailed us, if only we would let it.
Even for the most hardcore in hip-hop, there was no shame in admitting love for the King of Pop.
That Ms Rousseff is so dependent on Lula's patronage is a shame, for Brazil needs a strong and independent leader.
That is a shame, for his main argument is an intelligent one.
The demolition of Sheffield's Don Valley athletics stadium would be a "huge shame" for the city, Olympic champion Jessica Ennis has said.
That is indeed a shame, for there is no doubt that President Obama, like all presidents before him, commands unique power in the eyes of the American citizenry.
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