When he was young, Auchincloss hesitated to write fiction, paralyzed not only by his mother but also by his sense that, unless one was a genius, writing novels was rather an embarrassing thing to do, especially for a man, who was supposed to be engaged in some more respectable and lucrative employment.
It's quite an embarrassing thing for a feminist to admit, but I've been married three times since I was a teenager, going from one straight to the next, and even when the first two unions went tits-up I still found them immensely interesting, in a ghoulish sort of way.
"In the past, when you tried to get yourself a deal and it was an embarrassing thing — the kind of thing you did if you couldn't afford to pay," she said.
Asked if she could demand to see if he had sores, she blushed and said, "No, according to our Zulu culture, it's such an embarrassing thing to see a man's private parts".
Maybe it was my favorite virtual reality experience of all, which is an embarrassing thing to say about a game where dominatrices with pneumatic Lara Croft bodies peg a male avatar who's strapped into a torture chair with a chain around his scrotum.
I think, in that people find sexuality a difficult thing to talk about, or an embarrassing thing to talk about, or it's very low on your list of priorities when you are undergoing chronic illness.
Awareness also served to facilitate communication about sexual matters within relationships, as Simon (age 53, patient, sarcoma, SH) commented: I think, in that people find sexuality a difficult thing to talk about, or an embarrassing thing to talk about, or it's very low on your list of priorities when you are undergoing chronic illness.
It's definitely a theme we've seen because it's an embarrassing thing, to say someone's doing things with other guys, rumors that aren't true".
"It's an embarrassing thing to even have to address it," Jets outside linebacker Aaron Maybin said.
"It's like the underbelly of Afrikaans; an embarrassing thing they want to hide away.
