Sentence examples for as embarrassments from inspiring English sources

People are so enthusiastic about embracing these opportunities that it may be categorically inaccurate to think of them as embarrassments.

Both men have succeeded in remaining in power for three decades with French support but are increasingly regarded as embarrassments.

Those in suites your correspondent has visited on business are being treated as embarrassments, but the press is not always present.

In the 60s and 70s, releasing a track that was under 60 seconds long was a revolutionary act - a means of encapsulating a theory eloquently and abruptly - though the Beatles posthumously saw them as embarrassments.

As embarrassments go, it was a small one for Boeing Chairman W. James McNerney Jr., as much a blow to pride as profit: the aircraft maker has decided to discontinue its in-flight broadband communication service, known by the designer moniker Connexion by Boeing.

A celebrated director of commercials, Scott has had major box-office successes ("Top Gun" and "Beverly Hills Cop II") as well as embarrassments ("The Hunger" and "Days of Thunder"), but a sensitivity to the written word and a grace with actors have never been his trademarks.

Silence should be read as embarrassment.

Findings from these studies indicate several barriers which may deter older women from screening, such as embarrassment and logistical issues.

As well as embarrassment, the red card incident has provoked a spate of innovation and humour.

But such apologies are meaningless, measures not so much of regret as embarrassment.

"Secret," in this sense, means roughly the same things as "embarrassment".