Sentence examples for a trifle embarrassed from inspiring English sources

At first, he looked just a trifle embarrassed by all the fuss.

Tom comes in at this moment, and Peter is a trifle embarrassed when his friend views the scene.

In fact, observing this movie, I am not sure what they want; Michael Bay, whose passion for geopolitical history tends to be exceeded by his interest in fireballs, gives the enemy a dramatic shrift so short that even the most red-blooded American viewers may feel a trifle embarrassed.

AMERICA'S Treasury still seems a trifle embarrassed about owning big stakes in the country's largest banks.

Can't you see that we are poets?" "But of course I can!" He felt a trifle embarrassed not to have seen it immediately.

When asked, however, Ms Turanyi was a trifle embarrassed to admit that she had voted Democratic.In this section Signed, sealed, delivered Confetti and hot dates Scenes from a wake Happy days for Democrats No time for a novice Palin for 2012!

Todd Martens, of the Los Angeles Timess Pop & Hiss music blog, called "This Is It" a "trifle" and while the track "certainly won't embarrass Jackson's legacy or break the hearts of fans eager to hear Jackson's voice again" it does "bring the fallen pop icon a little back down to earth".

That seems fitting enough, but we also get panel discussions in TV studios, video feeds, and a genuine British news anchor declaiming iambic pentameters as if from an autocue — all a trifle forced, as if Fiennes were concerned that we might be embarrassed, or bored, by the spectacle of the bare play.