Sentence examples for called embarrassment from inspiring English sources

Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser has observed what could be called embarrassment in a male rhesus monkey.

Even as Barlow began his digging, some senior State Department officials were worried that too much investigation would create what Barlow called "embarrassment for Pakistan and trigger the Solarz Amendment, which would cut off all aid".

That's called embarrassment, and can subsequently make it very hard to look that person in the eye.

All her great performances have been in contemporary work - The Lady In The Van, Three Tall Women in the theatre; on celluloid, Brodie and The Lonely Passion Of Judith Hearne are built around a tension which you could call embarrassment - the exposure of the self at its most defenceless.

I experimented a lot with audience reaction, falling on my own sword, and sinking my own ship what I like to call "embarrassment transfer," which is when someone is putting themselves out there in such an unhinged and embarrassing way that you yourself feel embarrassed by having witnessed it.

They were able to discern a distinct phenomenon called medical embarrassment which is specific to the medical encounter and is not indicative of trait embarrassment.

Simon Schama, the author of a distinguished history of the Netherlands called "The Embarrassment of Riches," is shot wearing an overcoat with an embarrassingly rich fur collar.

And the Gateshead artwork, by Eric Bainbridge, is an enormous furry leopardskin thing with a fluffy animal on top, called The Embarrassment of Jimmy the Nail.

Amid mounting criticism of his handling of the Libyan crisis, William Hague yesterday had to accept the blame for a bungled SAS mission that the opposition called an "embarrassment" that could have led to tragedy.

Sooner or later, Mr. Bush's campaign was bound to remind voters of what Mr. Gore himself has called an embarrassment, his visit to a Buddhist temple in California where campaign donors were in attendance.

This deception is particularly troubling because it was not just a reflexive and in many ways understandable human act of concealment to protect himself and his family from what he called the embarrassment of his own conduct when he was confronted with it in the deposition in the Jones case.