Sentence examples for embarrassing excess from inspiring English sources

And, while I believe in using the balance sheet of the U.S. government to spur clean-tech research and start-ups, Solyndra was a case of embarrassing excess — precisely what happens when you rely too much on government push not consumer pull, spurred by price and regulatory signals.

Nina observed her kitchen, trying to shake off her embarrassing excess of excitement.

Yet Starr is in earnest, balancing precariously on the serious side of the bathetic; her labyrinthine installation seduces the viewer with the almost embarrassing excess of its imagery.

When it opened I heard it dismissed as "a tourist trap", a Disney-like anachronism, an embarrassing excess of the heritage industry in which nothing of artistic worth could be achieved.

These new restrictions are part of a broader effort at Scarsdale High School to control the binge drinking that some say is rampant in the suburbs and has led to death and injury, as well as embarrassing excess at schools throughout Westchester County in the academic year just drawing to a close.

It was spare, nervy music created in reaction to the embarrassing excesses of arena rock.

Mr. Johnson did something no one had done before: he got his rich contemporaries, from families with names like Trump, Newhouse, Bloomberg, Vanderbilt and Whitney, to let a camera into their closed world, embarrassing excesses and all.

In fact, we have taken enthusiastically to dry wines -- so much so that, except for Sauternes and port, we tend to look down on sweet wines as gauche, embarrassing, the excesses of misspent youth.

But he was dying of cancer, and the United States and other former cold war allies, embarrassed by his excesses and no ­longer needing him to fight the Communists, were happy to see him go.

We are a civil people, courteous to excess, who disdain displays of anger as childish and embarrassing.

Many children seek to be denuded because excess fuzz embarrasses them.