Sentence examples for embarrassing attitudes from inspiring English sources

Of his own return back to the Famous Five books he'd once loved, Rudd writes: I found the magic lacking, while the simple vocabulary and the old-fashioned and often embarrassing attitudes obtruded woefully … We adults are left with empty words, whereas our children, like millions of others, are transported.

You just have to have the, "I don't care, I'm not embarrassed, whatever" attitude.

"This is a short-sighted, embarrassing and deeply disappointing attitude from the United States," said Friedbert Pfluger, a local politician who lobbied hard for an American presence.

Ed Burke, typically a labor proponent, said he was "starting to get embarrassed at the attitude of some leaders of organized labor".

Frankly, some European countries' attitude to the Internet is becoming embarrassing.

Nevertheless, as well as embarrassing the government, it raises tough questions about the attitude of young Englishmen to drink, casual violence, and foreigners.

Nonetheless, bosoms are seen as cheap, embarrassing, even – gasp! – unfashionable, and are treated with an attitude close to distaste by many in the women's fashion business.

Orthodox progresista politicians were embarrassed by their extremist attitudes but could not neglect their potential role as urban revolutionaries.

Idris, the sensitive doctor, is embarrassed by their Americanised attitudes and the power that money bestows on them.

This large cast sticks faithfully to 17th-century dress, weaponry and manners, and yet the characters are strikingly modern, but then so is much of Behn's racy language, and her attitudes still embarrass people who are shy of plain speech.

My late father always used to say there was nothing wrong with the offensive, embarrassing and uncomfortable breeze of truth apart from the halitosis of social attitude.