Sentence examples for be somewhat embarrassing from inspiring English sources

And today, when the governor's office released a pile of e-mails, it turned out to be somewhat embarrassing.

In what has to be somewhat embarrassing for Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the most followed user on Google+, according to the Google+ Statistics counter.

It can be somewhat embarrassing to have to listen to a crude attempt at jokes from someone at a wedding, so it's good to do a little screening.

It may be somewhat embarrassing, but you do not want to allow yourself to become bloated or let the cramps become more serious and painful.

Sloan-Kettering has maintained that it is a private matter affecting Dr. Thompson, though the accusations have clearly been somewhat embarrassing for the prestigious Manhattan cancer center.

So it is somewhat embarrassing that as the European Union's Commissioner for Trade, he has presided over the imposition of punitive duties on a wave of Asian imports.

It's somewhat embarrassing that we didn't look outward sooner, that foreign wars got less TV air time than the war against wrinkles.

It's somewhat embarrassing to admit, therefore, that I'm finding it hard to do better than the profoundly unhelpful "I don't know – just not him".

In fact, the report is somewhat embarrassing for the party, which criticized the opposition Democratic Party for suggesting during parliamentary elections last month that taxes must rise.

He said: "This is welcome for Hammond as it would have been somewhat embarrassing if the first set of public finance figures after the November autumn statement had immediately put question marks over his new fiscal targets," he said.

"I don't think there will be animosity with the hot dog vendors, because we're offering a different product," she said, though she could not resist adding, "It was somewhat embarrassing for the parks department to offer only hot dogs and water".