Usually, I exercise the franchise in a state of embarrassing, heart-swelling affection for the imperfect republic, my under-informed fellow-citizens, confused poll workers, even the dubious names on the ballot.
But the idea of a grownup needing a minder — and the minder needing her adult child — isn't very humorous, and the movie's try for "heart" is embarrassing.
The "blue bean" had astonishing powers - accelerating muscle build-up and boosting recovery times - but its subsequent side effects were catastrophic: infertility among women, embarrassing hair growth, breast cancer, heart problems and testicular cancer.
Of course, Joey writes all his love songs, crying about his broken heart, which I think is embarrassing.
To O'Reilly, these images have his heart all aflutter, because they are "embarrassing".
If you, too, find it embarrassing to talk with your kids about sex, take heart: the authors of many of these books appear to be just as terrible at it as the rest of us.
These pops haven't met a bronzed animal with gaping jaws or stuffed bear they didn't like, embarrassing their families and posing their ways into our hearts.
Sometimes he says terrible things that no one else would say that absolutely strike home to one's heart, and sometimes he says things that are embarrassing.
Peter Cook, the late satirist, is affectionately mocked for his "deeply embarrassing" attempts to impersonate Elvis Presley and to quote passages of Shakespeare by heart.
On all reality shows, adults have the right to embarrass themselves to their heart's content; but adults do not have the moral or ethical right to exploit innocent children who have no choice but to witness their parent's chaos.
Scolding in public is embarrassing and degrading, when an individual's rights are respected, you appeal to their hearts and win their loyalty in return.
