Sentence examples for embarrassing character from inspiring English sources

In contrast, in the current campaign season we have the spectacle of figures whose substance consists of embarrassing character defects, fiery (yawn) rhetoric and patient waiting for a rival's implosion.

She simply lets herself be dominated by this dishevelled, oddball, embarrassing character who makes outlandish claims about himself (he even passes himself off as the German Ambassador to Romania) and who causes her ever-increasing difficulties and inconveniences.

"That ooh-la-la, conventional, embarrassing character," he complained in a 1965 interview with the Associated Press.

I could pull up embarrassing characters and skits all day.

And the director, unfailingly generous in his refusal to embarrass his characters, is equally generous in sharing his sensual enthusiasm with the audience.

There are moments in "Bleeding Edge," when Mr. Pynchon uses his hefty arsenal of talents to capture the churning anxiety of New York at the turn of the millennium with gorgeous sleight of hand, but there are also embarrassing sequences with characters nattering on and on about "false flag" capers, insinuating possible United States government or Mossad involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks.

One might feel embarrassed seeing a character in a lesser book laugh like that.

He was so embarrassed by the character that after every scene he apologized to the young actor he was required to torment, Sidney Poitier.

"It just shows you what kind of individuals these guys are, no sacrifice, no character, it's embarrassing.

A familiar idea plus embarrassing dialogue plus a main character no more developed than a stick figure adds up to more than it should in this thriller.

The dimension of "intentionality" represents the accidental versus intentional character of the embarrassing situation.