Word: sheepishly
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...their most famous neighbors, Bill and Hillary Clinton. Well-wishers swarm them after the parade on Memorial Day: dozens of people jostling on the neat lawn by Chappaqua's train station, shaking hands, taking pictures, posing enthusiastic questions about world affairs. "We're not really royal-watchers," says a sheepish Chappaqua resident, Mike Bass, once he's done snapping photos. But, sure, it is exciting, he says. "How many former Presidents are there? And how many are still alive, and how many are still walking around...
They are not like, say, Harvard’s conservatives, those demure Mansfieldians who aspire to a pre-1960’s gentlemanly code of conduct. Nor do they resemble Harvard’s liberals, who would attend a Gatsby party ironically, with sheepish restraint, lightheaded from all the seersucker...
...know I'm gonna get my freedom, it's all right, whoa, it's all right!" A shout from Andrew Young blocked King at the door--"Don't let him out of here!"--and hands pulled him into a sudden chorus of Happy Birthday. King wore a sheepish, captured look, recorded by one home-movie camera, when pioneer television host Xernona Clayton came forward to toast his turning...
...stable, already be proving myself." While he doesn't speak more than a few words of Japanese, Gorgadze has clearly mastered the essential Japanese virtues of tact, deference and fatalistic perseverance. When asked whether he is outraged by the rule, whether he feels it is unjust, he offers a sheepish smile and says simply, "I try not to think about fair or unfair. For now, the rule is what the rule is, and there is nothing I can do about...
...person class. She wasn’t exactly holding my attention, and my drowsiness betrayed my boredom. Finally, annoyed, she asked me across the entire class if she was keeping me up. It was a trick question—was either answer good? I turned red and muttered a sheepish no. It’s a moment I haven’t heard...