Sentence examples for embarrassing conclusion from inspiring English sources

The players' reliance on foreign income led to an embarrassing conclusion to last year's National Pro Fastpitch championship series, which was disrupted by rain and then canceled without crowning a champion.

PLOT Dow Jones's share price against the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the past seven years, and you come to a conclusion embarrassing to the company's management and annoying to its shareholders: that, in a brand-worshipping age, the company whose name is most closely associated with the bull market has failed to share in it.

The practice of conceptual analysis, this reasoning goes, aspires to provide real philosophical illumination; however if all analytic truths must share the obviousness of the proverbial unmarried male status of bachelors then no purported piece of conceptual analysis could fail to be either false or trivial, a conclusion highly embarrassing to much modern philosophy (Smith 1994, 37 39).

I put that to Johnny Grimond, editor of The Economist's style guide: "Probably when we've resorted to er or um, it's not so much an indication of indecision," he replied with authority, "but when one is led inexorably to a conclusion that is embarrassing or awkward or obvious".

Promotion represents a successful conclusion to a season that had risked ending in embarrassing failure after the club blew a big early lead at the top of the table and eventually finished the regular season in third place.

Inarritu admitted last month that he had changed the film's conclusion halfway through shooting because he decided it was an "embarrassing piece of s**t" but now, further details of his initial vision have emerged.

BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders said the government was likely to be "embarrassed" by another IFS conclusion, that the changes in benefits announced in the Budget would significantly raise the number of households and individuals in the UK facing very high marginal tax rates on their earnings.

Probably embarrassing.

Bit embarrassing.

Or embarrassing.

Nothing embarrassing.