Returning to the above anecdote, embarrassment is also experienced vicariously.
What strikes me about the case is that it tends to prove that politicians of a certain stripe and character can rise above the embarrassment, as did two past Tory philanders, Alan Clark and Steven Norris.
The rule is you don't want to hurt anybody but you do want to cause great discomfort and, above all, embarrassment.
But this is above all an embarrassment to an event that has too rarely felt like a main event.
But things that were once external and subject to the social rules of caution and embarrassment — above all, our interactions with other people — are now easily internalized, made to feel like mere workings of the id left on its own.
When drawing becomes an onus, a competition awarded marks and stars and, above all, an embarrassment rather than a natural and happy form of expression, then why do it?
We look at what everyone else is doing and think that unless we're doing similarly we failed (see fear of failure below and embarrassment above).
The Blokes (including ex-Faces organist Ian McLagen) are not above the occasional world-fusion embarrassment, but there are moments - when Bragg extols the virtues of Marmite soldiers "washed down with a cappuccino" - when this vision of our new England seems as moving as Jerusalem.
Announcement above referred to may precipitate embarrassment in the UN where evident desire is not to be confronted with necessity of a vote on passage, rather to find you have found it militarily necessary to do so".
The embarrassment category identified above as chief complaint (n = 9) manifested for Ss both at the dentist office when showing their mouths to dental personnel and having to admit to long periods of neglect and anxiety, as well as in general embarrassment or shame about dental neglect with inhibited smiling or dysfunctions in other social situations.
