Sentence examples for awkward embarrassment from inspiring English sources

The mixture of tedium and awkward embarrassment is very familiar.

You can't help but wince, from both empathy and an awkward embarrassment; the stiff upper lip has no place here.

What was supposed to be a proud moment for this tiny island nation of nearly 800,000 people is turning out to be an awkward embarrassment.

The incident — a false alarm, as she described it onstage — had involved heart palpitations, a mounting panic and some awkward embarrassment.

5 51 p.m. | Updated ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Initiall reaction in Pakistan to India's execution of Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani citizen whose confessed role in the deadly 2008 attacks in Mumbai had become an awkward embarrassment, was studiously muted.

Watching the program with my sisters used to evoke a combination of excitement, more than a smidgen of jealousy, and a kind of awkward embarrassment in me — Jimmy Savile, even to a nine year old, was just very odd.

The potential for an awkward situation, embarrassment, and even sting of rejection is a real possibility.

The simplicity here is that this avoids awkward situations and embarrassment for both parties.

The awkward stages and embarrassments, the skeletons -- they are always there in the firmament, in the collected unspoken, and that shared understanding is grounding.

For Aziz Ansari, the worst romantic dates are not the disastrous ones, the evenings that end in awkward silence or acute embarrassment or childhood anecdotes so boring you decide to make a break for it from the bathroom window.

Heinz Kerry describes herself as shy, and in the early months of the campaign she often hid in the corner of a stage, blushed at an introduction, covered her face, or did an awkward little pirouette of embarrassment before grabbing a mike with both hands and ad-libbing for an hour.