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To be embarrassed was to suffer a betrayal, and to betray one's self.
The only time she seemed embarrassed was when the phone rang again — her boyfriend, a Massachusetts surgeon, was calling — and his ringtone was "Sexual Healing".
So desperately embarrassed was he of his country at the moment, he was contemplating a foreign-policy suggestion of Donald Trump's — or, at least, he thought it was Trump's.
Again, it is far from clear from the interview whether Te'o was perpetuating a fraud or accurately, if awkwardly, relating the details of what had been an exclusively online relationship, one he was perhaps embarrassed was nothing more than that given all the attention it had received.
Knowing the staff in the local hospital and being embarrassed was also suggested to be a reason for by-passing the service.
So even "Dangling Man," an awkwardly written book about which Bellow later said, "I can't read a page of it without feeling embarrassed," was received as a sign that the novel might after all be up to its historic task.
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