Sentence examples for embarrassed air from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Fernandez, at 44 a youthful technocrat whose soft blue eyes belie an inner sang-froid, chuckles about the moniker with an almost embarrassed air.

Directed by Chris Smith, the show has the embarrassed air of someone who has just been served a choice steak and misplaced his dentures (1 30).

And his final mumbling declaration of non-sexual love for his manager, played by Gregor Fisher, interspersed with embarrassed air guitar arm-movements, is the funniest and sweetest thing I've seen on screen all year.

The women as well as the men hold conversations consisting almost entirely of variations on the F-word, with non-profane language appearing only rarely, and with a slightly embarrassed air, as if it didn't know what it was doing there.

Mr. Young, who is balding and trim, handled the brushoff with his signature sigh of acceptance and a vaguely embarrassed air, a pose that has earned him a following of media luminaries who treat him as a kind of hangdog mascot.

The little blue harbor always had an air of embarrassed congestion when the fleet was in..

Think tanks and non-governmental organizations sometimes have an air of embarrassed uncertainty about what their real function is.

Though embarrassed by the interior ministry's aired intention to build Jewish houses in East Jerusalem, he did nothing to countermand it or to scold the minister.

I am especially embarrassed to catch myself putting on airs, and I admit it happens from time to time.

Saudi Arabia, which is increasingly embarrassed by public concern over America's use of air bases in the kingdom for launching its attacks, condemned the air strikes, reiterating its support for Iraqi sovereignty.

He hears folks mention, "Air Coryell," and it makes him both proud and embarrassed.