Sentence examples for by embarrassment from inspiring English sources

Last week, I was in Britain, for family reasons, and found myself in a country drunk on the mild ale of postwar British patriotism: a gentle but irritating intoxication, in which everyone's pride is qualified by embarrassment, and everyone is oddly proud to be embarrassed.

At least, none caused by embarrassment.

And, invariably, that person is overcome by embarrassment.

— before being overcome by embarrassment and forgetting the whole thing?

Each rite is accompanied by embarrassment, mistake and mayhem.

Like Cottrell, they were driven in part by embarrassment.

The election also meant significant change — five new members — on the nine-member city council, a body that has in the past seemed plagued by embarrassments and strife.

The silence is explained by the embarrassment of defendants, Dr Jones argues.

He is as mortified as she has been angered by the embarrassment he has caused her.

The Arizona Democrats say they were motivated by the embarrassment of 2000.

In the case of Judi Dench, one is confronted by an embarrassment of riches.