Sentence examples for embarrassing exercise from inspiring English sources

It has been an embarrassing exercise in terms of electioneering".

When I first heard about "The Soloist," I thought that the movie, though based on a true story, could only be an embarrassing exercise in high-mindedness.

That six months have passed without firm resolution only makes Deflategate seem more and more like an embarrassing exercise in mass sports hysteria.

… The New York Observer: … Meanwhile, the backlash begins: a fellow chef, Eddie Huang, lets loose with a front-page complaint about Mr. Samuelsson's planting a fancy celebrity haunt, Red Rooster, in Harlem: "an embarrassing exercise in condescension, much like the book".

Regulators in the United States have called on companies to slash bonuses this year and, in at least one case, to figure out ways to get back bonuses and severance payments already given to executives — a difficult and potentially embarrassing exercise.

First, know that the title should be taken literally: on the show, which starts Saturday on CBS, contestants wear earpieces to receive instructions telling them to perform various embarrassing exercises in public places.

Try exercising alone to get in shape so you won't be embarrassed to exercise with others.

Instead, the hope is that boards, occasionally, might be embarrassed into exercising a little discipline.

In the same vein, he advises clients to practise "shame-attacking exercises", publicly embarrassing themselves to make them less neurotic about what others think.

If the whole sorry exercise had been genuinely embarrassing to watch then goodness knows what it must have been like to play.

The pretrial hearings for K.S.M. and the other alleged 9/11 conspirators have, at times, been like bizarre exercises in legal improv — embarrassing to watch.