Sentence examples for apparent embarrassment from inspiring English sources

Without any apparent embarrassment, he said that the sponsor wouldn't let him.

(A family friend vaguely recalled the rejection, but when Governor Bush was interviewed he said he knew nothing of this. Later, after checking with his parents, he went out of his way to confirm, without any apparent embarrassment, that he had indeed been rejected).

Some politicians show no apparent embarrassment about lying.

When reminded that his son's apparent embarrassment had been a public affair, he reached for his back pocket.

With no apparent embarrassment, Republicans have taken the strange position that law and order can only be preserved if we undermine our own laws.

Dismay at Kent's apparent absence and embarrassment because she was feeling just what people from her part of the country often felt in neighborhoods like this, though she would never have said what they said.

There was little apparent rage or embarrassment at the invertebrate manner in which his team crumpled, nor much in the way of compelling resolve to improve; rather an acknowledgement that succeeding in Test cricket is too much effort and not that big a deal.

They did not say as much but, with the exception of close friends and colleagues who knew what had happened, people either stared unabashedly or averted their gaze in apparent discomfort and embarrassment.

Without any apparent shred of embarrassment or self-reflection, elite pundits and wealthy office-holders have argued that Americans' sense of entitlement -- older Americans have been particularly targeted lately -- is unsustainable and that they can no longer expect the kind of public largesse to which they've become accustomed.

This suggests that the apparent experience of embarrassment following a public blunder serves a social function.

Earlier this year his finance minister, Shoichi Nakagawa, quit in embarrassment after apparent drunken behavior at a post Group of Seven meeting press briefing in Rome.