Sentence examples for embarrassing acceptance from inspiring English sources
Instead, Osborne will make the best of a bad job with growth boosting infrastructure measures balanced by cuts in current spending, coupled with an embarrassing acceptance that it will take longer than expected to turn the public finances round.
The common knowledge includes all the other goofy stuff that happens at the Dolby Theatre: the wardrobe disasters; the unfunny jokes; the weird dance routines; the embarrassing acceptance speeches; the unexpected appearance of Michelle Obama on a large screen above Jack Nicholson's head.
Acceptances were brisk, and not all that embarrassing.
(I'll take the cool fist jab over the embarrassing sweaty kiss Al Gore planted on poor Tipper during the his acceptance speech at the 2000 convention).
I only hope that if she wins she doesn't reprise the acceptance speech ("You like me… you like me!") that made the 1985 event so embarrassing.
Nevertheless: embarrassing.
