Sentence examples for degree of embarrassment from inspiring English sources

There's a degree of embarrassment in him, so his inertness is what makes him unique".

It may not have made much difference, but some degree of embarrassment would have been meted out.

For decades, governments have promoted arms sales, but there was always some degree of embarrassment … The coalition are much more blatant – quite shameless".

But graciousness on the part of Minnesota -- it certainly wasn't because of a revitalized Knicks team -- kept Coach Don Chaney's club from experiencing that degree of embarrassment.

"If I'd launched something as basic as this without using SSL I'd have expected a fair degree of embarrassment at the minimum," Morrell says.

Such was the case last Friday, when the release of the government's modelling of emissions cuts was put online without any fanfare, and with a fair degree of embarrassment.

Scotland's other participants in European competition this season – St Johnstone, Motherwell and Hibernian – were eliminated to varying degrees of embarrassment in the qualifying rounds.

Several Republicans and Democrats said they felt varying degrees of embarrassment for Texas as they watched its longest-serving governor stumble so badly, as when he uttered "Oops" during a debate after failing to recall the name of one of the three federal agencies he would have eliminated if elected president.

This was a different level of embarrassment.

The incidents have an archetypal familiarity - exploring varying degrees of social embarrassment from thwarted teenage crush to a mid-meal nose bleed and a fated marriage proposal - yet what could have been a slight comedy of manners becomes deliciously poignant.

So it is with a degree of triumph and embarrassment that I can report that this unlikely synthesis was achieved while lounging in a hot tub, gin and tonic in hand, on the top deck of a cruise ship somewhere in the Pacific.