As Trump sees it, Mueller is aggressively prosecuting Manafort — detailing his alleged tax evasion and bank fraud scheme and flashing snapshots of his extravagant wardrobe for the jury — to deliberately embarrass Trump and undermine his presidency.
Asked if the Russians were using this occasion to deliberately embarrass the Bush administration, Secretary Powell said, "I don't think it is necessarily a flex your muscles, mano a mano thing with the United States".
There is a superb cameo by Gary Lewis as a particularly intimidating schoolmaster – his presence brought Alistair Gray's Lanark into my mind – and a scene in which he deliberately embarrasses latecomers which is so toe-curlingly horrible I'd bet anything it's taken from Mullan's own experiences.
The spoiled child may use tantrums as a technique to get you to give them what they want, and if you refuse they may lash out angrily, and deliberately embarrass you in front of other people by crying on the floor or even calling you names.
Deliberately being embarrassing often works, but has the unfortunate side effect of embarrassing yourself.
She claimed she had lost out on other BBC Radio 4 projects – she previously presented Farming Today and Woman's Hour – and when she was offered the chance to present an edition of the station's Costing the Earth about pensioners she felt it had been done "deliberately to embarrass me... payback because it was believed I had leaked stories about the BBC and ageism".
It's quite possible, of course, that he timed that Dow record deliberately to embarrass the right wing Capitol Hill Daily, which sent out an email the same day calling for Obama's impeachment for, um, wrecking the stock market.
But those who got virtual therapy achieved the same gains without having to practice interactions in the real world, deliberately putting themselves in embarrassing situations or dreaded encounters.
"The hardliners are deliberately trying to embarrass the reformers," the official said, "The hardliners are arguing that engagement with the outside world only brings internal infection on human rights, endless pressures for trade concessions and the denial of China's right to sell arms where it pleases.
Within earshot of the soldiers, he told me that several were deliberately omitted because they embarrassed the regime.
