Sentence examples for embarrassing event from inspiring English sources

Running back the tape mentally, in this case meditating on how an embarrassing event might have turned out otherwise, is known to psychologists as counterfactual thinking.

But still, what Mr. Icahn is saying is that Dell could lose the vote on the acquisition, and then "I am coming after you to throw you out" — an embarrassing event at best.

Developmental psychologist Steve Ceci of Cornell University, explains one of them, a process known as motivated forgetting: "Think of some embarrassing event when you were a teenager," he says.

One day after Glen Sather obtained Jagr, a 31-year-old All-Star right wing, from the Washington Capitals for Anson Carter and significant financial considerations, Jagr's debut in a Rangers sweater turned into an embarrassing event.

"Higher" wanted to know who the hell had allowed such an embarrassing event to happen, and demanded that all US commanders report on the whereabouts of the Afghan soldiers in their area of operation.

Our expectation that truth will be revealed and silliness displayed is rewarded to some extent in the Classic Stage Company's production of Carl Sternheim's satirical 1911 play (its German title is "Die Hose"), which deals with the consequences of an embarrassing event: a woman's underpants fall down in public during a royal parade.

The episode is the latest in a sequence of embarrassing events for the university and its athletic department in the past month and a half.

China blocks online searches of politically sensitive terms, smothers embarrassing news events, blocks online messages from dissidents and simply deletes any microblog posts that it dislikes.

Meanwhile, back in Australia, a critical social media campaign against the Biennale, currently developing organically, has the potential to embarrass the event and highlight the often vexed question of corporate sponsorship of artistic and cultural events.

All a bit embarrassing ReprintsIn any event, could such suspicions be proved?

As embarrassing as the event was, it does not have much long-term impact on earnings.