Sentence examples for embarrassing book from inspiring English sources

Paying a lawyer to block the release of an embarrassing book would likely be permitted under that standard, Ryan said.

-- and he concludes this embarrassing book with a dreamy vision that equates the United States with a lava-spewing mountain.

In non-fiction Baker has produced what James Wood thought could be a "new criticism" with his passionate 1991 tribute and response to John Updike, U&I, which Wood also, admiringly, called "an embarrassing book: reading it is like watching an adolescent telephoning his first date".

As a result, there are a ton of embarrassing books with famous names attached to them.

Ferdinand also says he is happy to talk to David Moyes, despite describing the former Manchester United manager as "embarrassing" in his book.

Yes, there are bad fantasy books, and yes the covers of all the books tend to be uniformly terrible (I wish I could change that, as it is embarrassing to read the books on trains), but there are bad books in all categories, and it is time that the genre was treated with the respect that its best works deserve.

He has promised not to ask embarrassing questions at my book signings, and I have promised him room service.

Still, it's embarrassing to see the Book Review pander to it so shamelessly: a cover and two full inside pages on the angst of upscale, highly educated suburban mothers!

Luckily for me, the exposé came out on the very day that President Nixon resigned, and so it got buried in the back pages, along with the embarrassing fact that my book, "Sailing With the General," contained large swatches (unattributed) of Tolstoy's "War and Peace".

Conventional self-help books are embarrassing.

Most sex scenes in films and books are embarrassing, because they're very rarely done well.