Sentence examples for embarrassing explanation from inspiring English sources
But the simplest if most embarrassing explanation is that some public and private analysts who testified before Congress and were widely quoted overestimated the world's dependence on computer technology.
Worse, as any alum knows, its provenance requires a tortured and somewhat embarrassing explanation: "Well, les Diables Bleus were a French infantry battalion during the First World War…" Being named for anything related to the French military is not a good thing.
Others have to write embarrassing public explanations when they fail to reach them.
But opposition senator Luigi Vimercati called the explanation "embarrassing" and said he would demand a parliamentary inquiry.
Allan Jacobsen is "embarrassed" hearing explanations for Scotland's poor results as he prepares for the final Six Nations showdown with Italy.
Again, the explanation is embarrassing for the government.
He pointed to our exact failings and demanded explanations — very specific explanations — for how we planned to avoid embarrassing ourselves in the future.
His colleagues and all Americans are owed a fuller explanation of why he believes a politician's desire to hide embarrassing information for no legitimate reason of national security should trump the public's right to know.
One explanation is that the Weiner scandal was especially sordid: drawn out, compounded daily with new revelations, covered up with embarrassing lies that made us want to look away.
