Sentence examples for embarrassing awards from inspiring English sources

I'm really glad that it got this kind of bump this year, and I'm hoping that this is only the beginning to making it more mainstream again and not just some other slightly embarrassing awards show.

After embarrassing himself at an awards ceremony for his contributions to a saccharine Infinity Airlines ad, he checks into a rehab.

Ryan Howard (B.J. Novak) is embarrassed when Michael awards him "Hottest in the Office".

Peter Fleming, clearly a modest man, is likely to be embarrassed with the awarding of an honour, but if ever there was justification this is it.

The award may prove embarrassing for Mr Diamond's critics in America's Congress, who have so far refused to nod through his nomination for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board, after expressing concerns about his competence.

3M claims an email Boulter sent in the middle of the night after the meeting in Dubai on 17 June shows that Boulter threatened to seek Fox's help to have what he described as the "rather embarrassing situation" of a knighthood awarded to 3M's British-born chief executive Sir George Buckley discussed by the cabinet.

Obama was embarrassed by the award and recognized it for what it was: a rebuke to the Bush Administration.

"Winnie would be embarrassed by the award," said Donald Giffin, the longtime aide-de-camp to Arnold Palmer known as Doc, "but she would be delighted that Barbara's getting it".

He succeeded in embarrassing the Academy Awards when he was unknowingly awarded an Oscar for best screenplay in 1956 for "The Brave One," which he wrote as "Robert Rich".

McCarthy argues that the Nobel Peace Prize is singularly egregious, but many prizes, especially those awarded by committee, have at least one embarrassing past recipient.

Colour: It was a toss-up between midnight blue and brown; luckily he didn't go for the latter as the award presenter David Beckham did – that could've been embarrassing.