I've known teachers who believed that embarrassing a student would push them to do better, but those methods have lasting effects that go beyond the classroom.
In the opening scenes, Romanian authorities are shown to be frantically engaged in shutting down a brothel, whose presence they believe would embarrass local high society at a time when a grand ball is set to take place.
But I believe it was embarrassing to the university, frankly, that they should decide to invite him and then treat him in this manner".
As dominant as Brown could be on the mound -- and former teammates in Texas and Baltimore were awed by his talent -- many couldn't stand playing with him, believing he was embarrassing them with his antics, that he was violating an unwritten code by openly demonstrating his unhappiness over their performance.
"I'm tired of working for candidates who make me think that I should be embarrassed to believe what I believe, Sam! … We cowered in the corner, and said, 'Please.
However, at a United Nations climate change conference in Germany, environment groups believe Australia has embarrassed itself by ducking questions.
They believed Pedro would embarrass Derek Jeter and Jason Giambi and, even if the season is less than two weeks old, guide Boston into first place.
When Time magazine put him on their cover on 8 November 1954, before "Take Five" had even sealed his fame, Brubeck was embarrassed, believing jazz's greatest composer, Duke Ellington, should have been far ahead of him in the queue, and that it was his race which had made him acceptable.
How do you express it in a country that believes self-promotion to be embarrassing?
For almost two years, many people were naively led to believe that the era of embarrassing, large-scale corruption is a thing of the past.
