Her breezy shamelessness, and the more anguished shamelessness of her fellow Trump surrogates, shouldn't fool anyone.
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And while these artists' shamelessness as young women was outrageous, their shamelessness as old women is revolutionary.
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In that moment, she remembers the shamelessness of her childhood.
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Determination, resilience, and also an element of shamelessness is needed.
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For this president, shamelessness and personal loyalty are paramount virtues.
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"Your shamelessness knows no bounds," Waters wrote in that letter.
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This level of shamelessness isn't without precedent in American politics today.
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With two weeks to go, the midterms have reached peak shamelessness.
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It's no different now: Coed locker-room shamelessness is the rule.
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He is defined by shamelessness, and so there is no bottom.
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I have no proposal to alleviate this shamelessness epidemic, modest or otherwise.
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Trump in particular embodies the real but temporary political advantages of shamelessness.
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Shamelessness, however, appears to be a trait Trump shares with his children.
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Displaying a cheerful shamelessness, Mr Ibori is again active in Nigerian politics.
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At the core of this is McConnell's peculiar form of political shamelessness.
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Less guilty, because I'm not alone; there is a certain shamelessness in numbers.
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Because one of the big problems with the Democratic leadership is their shamelessness.
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Instead, as he wrote in a poem, he found arrogance, ignorance, shamelessness, lawlessness.
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The shamelessness of the whole episode still stuns as well as infuriates him.
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" Vox's Aaron Rupar wrote,"Shamelessness is a feature of Trumpism, not a bug.
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We laughed and talked about her beloved birds, awkward Bachelor Ben-times, and shamelessness.
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What distinguished Trump from the other Republicans was his shamelessness in making racist appeals.
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Yet back then, the group's shamelessness made them an obvious target, even an embarrassment.
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But the shamelessness that befuddles others is what I love about myself the most.
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They're also a test of where the limits of decency and shamelessness are drawn.
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McCain relishes a reputation for probity, honor, and integrity while Trump revels in shamelessness.
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Normal people just don't behave that way, and the sheer shamelessness eventually exhausts them.
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Shamelessness is now a superpower, as the twitterati say, and the audacious are rewarded.
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But the fact that she's in that position anyway speaks to a broader shamelessness.
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He sold his shamelessness as fearlessness and his charlatanism as charisma, and people believed.
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Their immediate problem is Donald Trump, and the culture of shamelessness he has instigated.
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And, as you said, his shamelessness: He doesn't care what people think of him.
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But even darker shadows than mendacity, shamelessness and fiscal populism now hang over Johnson's campaign.
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Their shamelessness is rooted in their denial of climate change being a human-affected process.
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Rather, it's Republicans, with their heroic capacity for shamelessness, who want to talk about Russia.
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The other, the one with the war chest and shamelessness, is still in the race.
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"I now understand what shamelessness is," said one user on Weibo, China's version of Twitter.
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In a harsh critique, Aaron added: The AHCA is stunning in its shamelessness and baldness.
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After all, two decisions under his leadership of the high court have enabled the lawmakers' shamelessness.
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Eating on the subway requires a blend of self-sufficiency and shamelessness that I truly respect.
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Donald Trump added his own signature dose of shamelessness to the Republicans' shameless crusade against Obamacare.
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I'm arguing against the shamelessness of what they just tried to do with the ethics office.
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McConnell held the spot open so that Trump could fill it, proving his power and shamelessness.
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"What happened in Congress underscores the shamelessness to which the parliamentary majority has fallen," Vizcarra added.
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I have always been overzealous, boldly occupying space with the confidence and shamelessness of a reality star.
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In my book I have compared him to Bernie Madoff in terms of his greed and shamelessness.
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You have to mine the deepest depths of shamelessness to understand the prevailing motives for these actions.
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It's a special kind of shamelessness as political strategy -- and it's worked for him in the past.
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Trump has discovered that shamelessness is its own reward, and his disciples have learned that lesson well.
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What's different from Watergate is not the nature of the misconduct, but the shamelessness of the defense.
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"Shamelessness is allowing anyone other than a biological female into a battered women's shelter," Carson wrote today.
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Since taking office, his signature values — showmanship, shamelessness, and corruption — have spread like kudzu in official Washington.
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When it comes to shamelessness, little beats Johnson's U-turns (or EU-turns) on the subject of Brexit.
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" Julián Castro, a Democratic presidential candidate, tweeted that McConnell's "shamelessness at stealing a Supreme Court seat is appalling.
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Its comic sensibility feels familiar, down to the cadence of the dialogue and the shamelessness of the nudity.
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So EU officials are demonstrating once again not only their contempt for democracy, but their shamelessness as extortionists.
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There's knowing sexualization, and then there's outright shamelessness, and it's debatable where Xtreme 3 falls on that scale.
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"They've always been brutal, they've always killed people, but this was too much brutality and shamelessness," he said.
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In his 15-plus months as president, Trump has added a second bit of shamelessness to his approach.
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But it's irresistible in its intelligence — and in the shamelessness it depicts with such clear yet understanding eyes.
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Yet Trump's sheer brazenness and shamelessness would make it hard to get very far with this sort of gossip.
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It's a gesture of defiance and shamelessness, and of a new kind of compassionate chic: Chinot got to work.
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Trump, whose most prominent character trait is shamelessness, suffers little damage among his core supporters for his daily trespasses.
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It speaks to an increased public shamelessness in contemporary South Africa that he named it "Steyn City," after himself.
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And on television, producers are pioneering a new frontier of shamelessness, shaking ever more content out of dormant properties.
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Mike Bloomberg and his presidential campaign respect the fundamental equation governing the modern internet: Shamelessness and conflict equal attention.
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As I grew older, I began to lose the shamelessness that the women in my family had instilled in me.
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A. I think sharing (or shamelessness, depending on your viewpoint) may be part of the job description for everyone involved.
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But Oxycontin was never really advertised directly to patients—I guess there are some limits to the shamelessness of Purdue.
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Their shamelessness and indifference to law and morality are naturally galling to you and other decent folks in the gym.
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Yet it is precisely this aura — call it ruthlessness, or shamelessness — that has found purchase among conservatives, particularly young ones.
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A defining feature of Facebook's approach to product development is its ruthlessness, which often manifests as a kind of shamelessness.
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But Trump's falsehoods about his Republican approval rating do say something about the ease and shamelessness with which he lies.
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It's a microcosm of the same Trumpworld shamelessness that has suddenly converted Donald Trump Jr. into an outspoken opponent of nepotism.
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"He sold his shamelessness as fearlessness and his charlatanism as charisma, and people believed," writes Stephens of the 2016 presidential campaign.
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The impetuous pace of the film is at one with its moral shamelessness, and, without thinking, we sign up for both.
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Shamelessness has a way of inspiring a following, and Omar is in the process of cornering the market on the left.
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The president's greatest threat may not be from high-minded civic idealists, but a grifter whose shamelessness may exceed his own.
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The indecency, dishonesty, volatile temperament, and shamelessness Bharara is so peeved by certainly contribute to America seeming more unhinged by the month.
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"Not everyone lied with the same skill, shamelessness and insistence, obviously, and few succeeded in inventing a whole new identity," Cercas writes.
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When Indian women held their own version of the SlutWalk — the Besharmi Morcha, or the March of Shamelessness — we cheered them on.
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President Donald Trump's latest attack on the New York Times wasn't just a standard illustration of his shamelessness — it was also self-defeating.
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His designs on Independence Day call to mind those sorts of leaders: their vanities, shamelessness and equation of national interest with self-interest.
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At the heart of these tactics is a genuine shamelessness that fits perfectly not just with politics but also the internet at large.
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Carson threw the charge back at her today in his response: "Shamelessness is a career politician of 30 years laying blame," he wrote.
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Graham hasn't just embraced the president, he's embraced Trump's total shamelessness — his absolute failure to hold himself accountable to any worthwhile standard of character.
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Perhaps nothing better illustrates the sheer shamelessness of the Trump family than their efforts to make "corruption" a central issue in the 2020 campaign.
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Yet Trump seems poised to transform presidential paranoia into something new, thanks to two of his most distinguishing qualities: his shamelessness and his cynicism.
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It took a swindler of Donald Trump's shamelessness, and the unexpected consolidation of power in Republican hands, to expose the limits of this spin.
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But the shamelessness of this administration, the dishonesty, the total indifference to facts, is something I haven't seen before — at least not this blatant.
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A few vulnerable Republican politicians might break from Trump, argues Michelle Goldberg, but cynicism, fear and shamelessness will probably keep the others in line.
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Either way, it might be a portent of things to come, as filmmakers try to frame the legacies of leaders who succeed through shamelessness.
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"Let the world know what forced confession through torture is, what shamelessness without limit is," Ms. Chen said in a statement issued on Thursday.
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I think what I appreciate most about Blair is her shamelessness about hiding from the world and doing nothing, and the implication that it's okay.
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Since this response implies self-indulgent shamelessness in enjoying being manipulated, it is not only objectionable on aesthetic grounds, but on moral ones as well.
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She digs into Albert's abrasiveness, manipulativeness and shamelessness and indulges, with relish, her talent for accents (Albert pretends to be J.T.'s British handler "Speedie").
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Trump gets a gold medal in the Shamelessness Olympics for claiming that Ivanka Trump is a shining example of how not to be corrupt pic.twitter.
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Shamelessness was an early Trump hallmark, expressed as he promoted himself as a man about town and a mogul even before he built his first project.
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A series of long-standing procedural and political and discursive norms really have failed the essential challenge that Trumpian politics and Trump's own bulletproof shamelessness present.
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You can set your watch to what happens to Stella's best friend (Moises Arias), also a patient, and the last act is a supernova of shamelessness.
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Republicans are only a short step away from such shamelessness when they try to deflect from the president's racism by accusing his foes of anti-Semitism.
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It's a strategy of shamelessness that tries to normalize bad behavior and dubious decisions -- and makes it almost impossible for a conventional democratic governing system to respond.
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Her shamelessness is one of the things that sets her apart from mere mortals: Her ability to ignore and transcend the rules that govern most of our lives.
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Candidates now construct their own face masks by virtue of whatever quotient of shamelessness they can abide in themselves — which would seem to be a lot and increasing.
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They revel in the shamelessness of a man whose fortune means he's beholden to no one -- and who doesn't look like he cares whether he wins or lose.
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"Trump has a superpower, which is utter shamelessness that is hard for sane humans to replicate," said Tim Miller, who served as a campaign adviser to former Gov.
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They lost whatever right they had to play that role when they got behind Trump, not only acquiescing in the culture of shamelessness but also savoring its fruits.
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"Shamelessness is allowing more than 55,000 Americans to live on the very streets they represent," Carson added, referring to the homeless population of Los Angeles city and county.
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Peak Skrill had so much shamelessness, purity, and soul—he was like ZZ Top except channeling the unhinged id of the internet's underbelly instead of a Texas dive bar.
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A year later a local newspaper published articles accusing officials from Qatar's museums authority (QM) of abusing their power and of frequent "drinking and shamelessness", a charge QM denies.
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But one of Trump's signature characteristics is an absolute shamelessness that frees him from any sense of obligation to even pay lip service to normal values or avoid hypocrisy.
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The shamelessness of the 90s taunted us over our own existence, and over our precious little foresight for a future after war and happy capitalism throughout the 20th century.
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So Godwin's Law holds true, but the shamelessness of social media also means we're seeing the Nazi comparisons come out much quicker than we may have in the past.
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Patel's boundary-pushing besharam maps onto the same besharam diaspora kids know all too well—both cases of shamelessness born from the need to reconcile with their multifaceted identities.
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"That idea of 'Do the right thing' is the opposite of the culture of shamelessness, cynicism, greed and moral obtuseness underlying the unending scandals engulfing Albany," Mr. Kaehny said.
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" If women "stand and ask their rights," she added, "men think it is shamelessness and think that they do not have authority on women, and there the problem starts.
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To understand the sociopathic shamelessness of Giuliani seeking Artemenko's help with Trump's current domestic political problems, you have to understand how the Russia scandal and the Ukraine scandal intersect.
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It was shamelessness that let McConnell scotch the Obama administration's effort to release a bipartisan statement revealing Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 election and warning them to stop.
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Vox has covered some of those shady maneuvers (see here, here, and here), but a new story out of West Virginia might take the cake for sheer chutzpah and shamelessness.
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Mayors had no choice other than to play along, though the shamelessness with which many (I'm looking at you, Bill de Blasio) groveled before Amazon went far beyond what was necessary.
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I'm betting that she realizes it and won't run in the end, for that reason and another: She lacks Trump's shamelessness, which enabled him to transcend his unpreparedness for the office.
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What the Bloomberg campaign seems to have bought into is that, when you lean into the potent combination of content creation and shamelessness, any reaction it provokes is a good reaction.
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The ex-mayor has embraced President Donald Trump's approach to politics—a toxic mix of avarice, shamelessness, and conspiratorial smears—more thoroughly than almost any other figure in American public life.
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I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday celebrating the end of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference amounted to a stunning display of shamelessness.
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What the comic captures is the mix of political shamelessness, unerring showmanship, media dynamics, social media dynamics, and public despair that led many to prefer Trump's postmodern cynicism to politics as usual.
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The most dangerous thing about the release of the Nunes memo is not the memo itself, but Republicans' shamelessness in using national security processes to deceive the people they're supposed to serve.
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We've all been reminded recently that this is not really a society governed by laws, but by power; and even power — such as, say, congressional oversight — can be easily overpowered by shamelessness.
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With his monumental talents as a manipulator, cheat, and liar, Cohn became the quintessential fixer whose shamelessness, malevolence, and hypocrisy are matched only by the improbable rise of his protégé, Donald Trump.
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While some conservatives might normally find the tone of Trump's self-expression disgusting, in other words, it's coming across now as refreshing, and titillating in its shamelessness in the face of establishment disapproval.
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It's also the latest example of Trump's total shamelessness and complete willingness to do whatever he believes is in his interest, no matter the optics and no matter the insult to ethical behavior.
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It was shamelessness, for instance, that let McConnell refuse to hold a hearing on Merrick Garland and then, grinning, admit that he'd fill a Supreme Court seat if one came up in 2020.
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But the postmodern solution is even more powerful: It is the simple shamelessness that allows us to recognize a lie as a lie but still treat it as if it were a reality.
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And Omar's quick apology, which came after her words were denounced by Democratic leaders, shows how she and her party have yet to reach the heights of shamelessness currently on display in Trump Inc.
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In the letter, Carson accused Waters of exuding "shamelessness" for criticizing Trump over reports about the administration's potential plans to crack down on homelessness in California, according to a copy obtained by The Hill.
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In this case, the shamelessness resides in the idea that Gonzales, a close observer of American politics, needs to see Trump and Clinton debate one another before he can determine who ought to win.
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The result was a confirmation process, and now almost certainly a justice, tainted by dishonesty, shamelessness, self-pity, indifference to women's fears and calculated divisiveness — the hallmarks, in other words, of Mr. Trump's politics.
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He is now a little less damaged ahead of his re-election campaign, a testament to how belligerence, shamelessness and partisanship can undermine any attempt to hold a president or his allies accountable for wrongdoing.
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Isn't this conversation between Diaz and Boston Review associate editor Avni Majithia-Sejpal, in which he analyzes Donald Trump's sexual shamelessness and comments on the public exposure of patriarchy, what a convert to feminism sounds like?
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Delaney's sunny shamelessness makes even the dirtiest parts of his act feel somehow wholesome, and suddenly masturbating in rehab with two broken arms is a triumph of hearty determination, an ode to a can-do spirit.
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West's shamelessness is one of his great gifts: it's the quality that allowed him to make "Runaway," to blaspheme by naming himself Yeezus, and to spend an afternoon passing around the aux cord at Madison Square Garden.
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Last season's Rockets were loathed for the shamelessness of their strategy—weighing analytically prudent threes and layups and free-throws above everything else, up to and including basic dignity and just kind of agreed-upon basketball etiquette.
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In the electoral reckoning, civility had been trumped by hostility, respect by chauvinism, tolerance by bigotry, truth by fabrication and deceit, privacy by exposure, modesty by exhibitionism, achievement by fame, shame by shamelessness, and bridges by walls.
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Whether it's denying the presence of Russian troops in Crimea or falsely claiming millions of people voted illegally during the 2016 election, both leaders demonstrate a kind of shamelessness when it comes to telling and retelling big lies.
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The only good that came of McConnell's ruthless and unprecedented decision to orphan Court nominee Merrick Garland last year—to nullify Obama's appointment power by abdicating the Senate's advice and consent responsibility—was that its shamelessness was revelatory.
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The appropriation of 9/11-evoking imagery in big-budget action slaughterhouses like Batman v Superman has become something of a punchline in its shamelessness, but the pervasiveness of that imagery remains fairly constant when a film's budget allows.
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This meant Reyes was available to anyone at the league minimum, and that—or that plus desperation, plus sentimentality, plus a crucial dose of shamelessness—was enough to entice the Mets into taking a shot at their former star.
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She shares, in other words, Trump's desperation for the spotlight and his shamelessness in reaching for it, and her shrugging, "I'm not a saint girl" response to Anderson Cooper's questions about her interesting past had a very Trumpish feel.
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Shame and shamelessness flood through her depictions of an overweight, naked woman standing alone in a cavernous studio, surrounded by her art, or in her close-ups of a starving creature cramming her maw with fistfuls of thick, scarred paint.
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That shamelessness was on full display at another point when his speech was interrupted by protesters holding a banner that read, "immigrants built America," right after Trump started to talk about how many people were murdered in Chicago last year.
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Wayne is hip-hop's very own original drug-munching, expletive-cackling, thumb-sucking, language-fucking, free-associating genius idiot savant egomaniac, Chainz a suave, cheerful ladies' man and/or sexist whose greatest charm is his own candid shamelessness complete with sheepish grin.
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About show-biz shamelessness (or not being ashamed, as I was ashamed of my sissy ways), about the great power that came with throwing, so to speak, your dick on the table and daring the Other to make a move, grab it.
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Quite lacking the sinuous guile of Wilson or the shamelessness of Blair, Cameron hoped he wouldn't be held to his referendum promise, or that, if he was, he would win a vote for Remain—a widely shared view, it must be said.
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Corruption has been evident in Mr. Trump's private and public life, in how he has treated his wives, in his business dealings and scams, in his pathological lying and cruelty, in his bullying and shamelessness, in his conspiracy-mongering and appeals to the darkest impulses of Americans.
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The shamelessness and volume of Mr. Trump's lies — The Washington Post calculated last month that he was averaging more than 6.5 false or misleading claims a day — are flooding the country in misinformation, and his lies are endlessly repeated and amplified by the right-wing media machine.
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There is no time like the present to lean into the shamelessness of motherhood, and so I grabbed my kid, and put on some yoga pants that had never seen the inside of a yoga studio but have seen so very much Netflix, and was on my way.
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But when I look at the field right now, I get the case that Bloomberg would be the strongest candidate against Trump, not because of issue by issue, but because of this shamelessness and this willing to kind of fight hard and dirty, Charlie, that you were talking about.
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But when I look at the field right now, I get the case that Bloomberg would be the strongest candidate against Trump, not because of issue by issue, but because of this shamelessness and this willing to kind of fight hard and dirty, Charlie, that you were talking about.
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When the MSNBC host Chris Hayes, discussing Sam Seder's brief firing, tweeted that "the entire culture and our politics are now dominated by people who have weaponized bad faith and shamelessness," one response came from Donald Trump Jr., who provided what felt like an algebraic proof of Hayes's point.
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Y.), who in a letter Tuesday asked Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben CarsonBenjamin (Ben) Solomon CarsonNY attorney general to investigate alleged Long Island housing discrimination Ben Carson accuses Maxine Waters of 'shamelessness,' hypocrisy on homelessness Trump launches effort to boost support among black voters MORE to investigate the allegations.
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" Greenblatt goes for the jugular with this particular parallel: "Drawing on an indifference to the truth, shamelessness and hyperinflated self-confidence, the loudmouthed demagogue is entering into a fantasyland — 'When I am king, as king I will be' — and he invites his listeners to enter the same magical space with him.
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Six months into his term, Trump's policy achievements are few and thin, but he has coarsened our politics, shown the power of shamelessness, undermined our faith in each other and ourselves, modeled behavior we would punish children for exhibiting, and implicated all of us in the running fiasco of his presidency.
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I think the scarier question is: Is his shamelessness something that's inherent to Donald Trump, or are other Republicans and other politicians in general, even Democrats, going to look at that and say, "Okay, well if he's shameless and he got away with all of that, can I be the same way"?
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The roster is shredded by injuries, and the team's ever-mysterious payroll remains shredded by the disastrous anti-acumen and self-dealing shamelessness of the team's owners, which means that the Mets' lineup has lately been a collection of banjo-hitting baseball refugees and professionals grimacing through grinding joints and various impacted strains and sprains.
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The chairwoman and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben CarsonBenjamin (Ben) Solomon CarsonAffordable housing crisis demands urgent, sustained action Democrats target housing shortage as advocates warn of crisis Harris, Waters release 0 billion affordable housing bill MORE have waged a particularly vicious battle, trading accusations of "hypocrisy" and "shamelessness" in a series of letters.
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Despite having been demonstrably wrong about so much, such is their brass-necked shamelessness that they'll happily cook up and push the next conspiracy—Trump is being covertly drugged by White House insiders, say—to an audience only too willing to lap up the snake oil, even—maybe especially—when "the mainstream" have proven that it's nonsense.
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The fact that they are speaks volumes about the ineffectiveness of congressional leadership, particularly in the Senate, as well as the shamelessness of a handful of members of Congress who had no qualms about supporting repeal when it was guaranteed a veto, but who take to their fainting couches over an actual legitimate effort to do so.
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Shamelessness has always been this band's specialty, as they long ago crafted a distinct sound from glitzy fluorescent keyboards underpinning otherwise conventional crunchy rhythm guitar, plus punchy melodies whining their way into your head like Auto-Tuned worms through an apple, plus vocals so steeped in pathos that their overkill functions less like self-aggrandizement and more like a sly wink.
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What he has done instead, and will continue to do, is bring his few blunt tools—unflagging shamelessness and aggression, a knack for pushing on bruises and shoving others into traffic, and a wild and blank antipathy for other people—to bear against a literal virus, and hope that it results in compelling enough television to keep him in power.
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Lost from official accounts of Quiet is the detail that Josh had recruited subjects on a promise of $100,000 for anyone who could survive to the end of New Year's Day … meaning any or all of 60 struggling and somewhat desperate artists—including a generous number of performance artists, for whom shamelessness and immunity to attrition were not just matters of pride, they were job descriptions.
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There's a perfect alignment between the reputation he wants, the reputation he has, and the reputation he deserves in a way that's unequalled among American politicians and that allows him to conduct himself with an even greater degree of shamelessness than Donald Trump himself since unlike the all-id Trump, McConnell isn't out of control he's just willing to be utterly ruthless in pursuit of his political objectives.
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This sequel to the 2012 Disney hit "Wreck-It Ralph" — which was set in the virtual world of arcade games, and whose affable lug of a hero was an 8-bit video game villain trying to break free from a lifetime of mindless destruction — sends its protagonists out into the broader internet, where they discover all the pandering, cruelty, addictive behavior and viral shamelessness that we've come to associate with online culture.
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Here is perhaps his most famous poem, "For the Anniversary of My Death": Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me And the silence will set out Tireless traveler Like the beam of a lightless star Then I will no longer Find myself in life as in a strange garment Surprised at the earth And the love of one woman And the shamelessness of men As today writing after three days of rain Hearing the wren sing and the falling cease And bowing not knowing to what The poem's power is clinched by its title and opening line; almost anything could follow that bracing conceit.
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Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben CarsonBenjamin (Ben) Solomon CarsonNY attorney general to investigate alleged Long Island housing discrimination Ben Carson accuses Maxine Waters of 'shamelessness,' hypocrisy on homelessness Trump launches effort to boost support among black voters MORE sent a scathing letter to House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine WatersMaxine Moore WatersOn The Money: House passes monthlong stopgap | Broader spending talks stall | Judge orders Democrats to give notice if they request Trump's NY tax returns | Progressives ramp up attacks on private equity Federal regulators clear BB&T-SunTrust merger, creating sixth-largest US bank Progressive Democrats ramp up attacks on private equity MORE (D-Calif.) over her criticism of President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive takeaways from the Democratic debate As Buttigieg rises, Biden is still the target Leading Democrats largely pull punches at debate MORE's approach to combating homelessness, accusing the congresswoman of being hypocritical about the issue.
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