Shamefully

Despite its importance to Edinburgh’s festivals, the stage and concrete bowl for spectators have been shamefully neglected in recent decades.

During Eid, when we couldn’t afford to hire a taxi to visit our family friends, I would shamefully lower my gaze while boarding the bus in my flashy salwar kameez.

Growing up just outside NYC (New Jersey, shamefully), I have visited many of Manhattan's neighbourhoods — but am particularly drawn to SoHo.

Staggeringly and shamefully, that number maybe an undercount, because so many of our crimes go unreported or are reported days later.

A statement released through North Curve Celtic read: "As the Gaza genocide continues shamefully unabated we invite the Celtic support to join us in song to commemorate the 30,000 lives lost and the millions struggling on.

Based on his “logic,” he also could have questioned women having their own bank accounts or Black people being able to use drinking fountains — shamefully such fundamental rights were also not normalized in the relatively recent past.

I have a lot of regrets about my first collection, which I have a box of that collection of poems hidden shamefully in a closet somewhere under other boxes of lampshades and whatever.

The response from high-income countries so far has been shamefully inadequate.

These figures are a damning indictment of how the Nationalists have shamefully neglected our health service over the past 17 years.

This is all happening in the context of a shamefully overlooked humanitarian catastrophe.

In the newly democratic South Africa, the shamefully low level of electrification of black households was seen as an apartheid wrong that needed to be righted.

Not wanting to pull the trigger herself, Gemma shamefully goes around and makes it happen anyway.

The groups said Nigeria cannot and should not look on when one of its citizens is being so shamefully abused.

The show’s white cast of criminals and cultists was irresistibly, shamefully entertaining.

Will we wash our hands of any obligation to those who serve our nation, as we shamefully did when black soldiers helping to save our democracy returned from the world wars?

And yet Rooney keeps writing novels — and in those novels, her characters keep finding themselves drawn to books, shamefully and against their will.

But it’s also true that things can be “better” and still be shamefully, irredeemably bad.

It also highlights how shamefully public servants are treated once they return home – which is especially true of our veterans.

Over the last decade, these governments have doubled the qualifying period for unfair dismissal, passed the 2016 Trade Union Act to limit workers’ right to organise and join unions, and shamefully refused to ban zero-hours contracts.

Patients, angry over the decline in care, point the finger at GPs, while NHS managers and politicians have shamefully allowed doctors to become the scapegoats of political and managerial incompetence.