Sentence examples for On embarrassment from inspiring English sources

For decades it has been an inconvenience bordering on embarrassment.

It has to rely on embarrassment power instead.

For many participants this theme is an irrelevance that borders on embarrassment.

The Dutchman's appointment followed Britain's performance in the 2008 Beijing Games – a triumph for the cyclists and rowers, but verging on embarrassment for the athletes.

Maybe he'd write: "Something there is that doesn't love a presentation". The mail brings tales of projectors running amok, balky disks, microphones bent on embarrassment, all manner of plans gone for naught.

Representative Roy Blunt of Missouri, the Republican majority whip, said the televised images of the beheading had a palpable effect both on public opinion and the mood among lawmakers after days in which the focus had been on embarrassment and anger over prisoner abuse.

And as the show goes on, that embarrassment grows.

His decision to run for a second term, breaking the undertaking that he would keep to on, provoked embarrassment among UN member countries friendly to him.

Is that a hint of embarrassment on his face?

One expert on political embarrassment, Bill Clinton, said on CNN last week that he had "no idea" why Romney hadn't released more of his tax returns.

For an apology to succeed, it has to focus on the hurt feelings of the people receiving it, not on the embarrassment of the person who delivers it.