Chagrin
Sheepish discomfort after a minor wrong move or social misstep.
11 passages tagged with this primary in the Penwright corpus.
Study and magazine
Entry resolves to the emotion-tagged sequence when published (ASN-933); until then you may land on a placeholder or the main player.
No published passage–image pairings for this emotion yet. The passage list below still reflects how the corpus names this feeling in text.
Part of a cluster
Chagrin sits inside the cluster below. Each card explains why these emotions cluster — and what specifically distinguishes Chagrinfrom its siblings here.
Often arrives with
Secondary emotions tagged alongside this primary in the same passages (co-occurrence in loom_passage_tags).
Research
How Vela holds this emotion as a research object — historiographic, ethnographic, and empirical. The full thread sits sibling to the desire program and the Christianity-sex-shame thread.
- Public introduction — What We Mean When We Name a Feeling. The program essay: what naming does, what disappears when a name disappears, and why the work matters for editorial honesty.
- Literature map — claims keyed to coordinates across historiography of emotion, the basic-vs-constructionist debate, cross-cultural ethnography, and the empirical psychology of named emotions.
- Bibliography — ~110 entries grouped by section, with verified DOIs and stable URLs where available.
- External research runs — index of the 36-run deep-research bring-back that underlies the map and bibliography.
- Vela research surface — index of all research threads (desire, Christianity-sex-shame, text-aesthetic, emotion, Boudoir Studios, museum diversity, artist studies).
Passages
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11 tagged passages
- GCSH-RC-081From Going Clear (2013)
And yet many of Hubbard’s associates testify to his keen eyesight. Without glasses, Hubbard would have been legally blind; perhaps that’s what he was referring to when he said he had cured himself of blindness after the…
- BDT-RC-188From Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (1901)
It was known, especially the draper Benthien, that he not only got all his fine and new-fashioned clothes – and he owned an unusually large number of them: Pardessus, skirts, hats, waistcoats, trousers and ties – but al…
- FVQJ-RC-114From The Four Vision Quests of Jesus (2015)
Even if people do not know her complete story, they have a name recognition trigger for who she is: the Indian princess who saved Captain John Smith from execution at the hands of her own father, the great chief Powhata…
- DGB-RC-872From The Decameron (1353)
Nero’s dying words, ‘Qualis artifex pereo’ (‘What an artist dies with me!’), correspond exactly, in the view of Croce and others, 64 with the dying sentiments of Ciappelletto. But as Getto points out, Ciappelletto’s off…
- JSPP-RC-258From The Journals of Sylvia Plath (1982)
Rum and lemon juice, and the cool elegant plopping of the water.… Jain monks in India; seeable only in 3-month rainy season as they have a vow to move on every night otherwise. Elaborate metaphorical pleas for money and…
- CIOU-RC-208From Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (2014)
Upon their return, the directors, Ron and John, each told me that research inspired the production in ways they never expected. It was the beginning of a sea change: Today, directors and writers at Disney can’t imagine …
- BSO-RC-032From Boys & Sex (2020)
Absent other sources, it’s clear that teenagers turn to porn, at least in part, for sex education, even as they claim to know that its content is about as authentic as pro wrestling. Girls in particular consult sexually…
- BCSS-RC-049From Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (2016)
Eden Park was a colored neighborhood adjacent to several black townships on the East Rand. Half-colored and half-black, she figured, like us. We’d be camouflaged there. It didn’t work out that way; we never fit in at al…
- LTAH-RC-057From Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity (2024)
There is a fascinating crossover between Hellenism and Judaism in a popular Greek commonplace, so common in fact that no one could quite decide who said it first: leading candidates were Plato or the earlier philosopher…
- AK-RC-637From Anna Karenina (1877)
“That it may be, but still it ought to be treated a little more respectfully. Snetkov, now.... We may be of use, or we may not, but we’re the growth of a thousand years. If we’re laying out a garden, planning one before…
- DGB-RC-227From The Decameron (1353)
And on the second morning he was to order Messer Ruggieri to return to the King. The servant kept watch, and as soon as Messer Ruggieri left the city, attached himself to his entourage in as natural a manner as possible…