Sentence examples for embarrassing item from inspiring English sources

It's an embarrassing item, to be sure, but perhaps he is also genuinely ashamed of Right to Life's merciless and persecutory style; he has continued to play up his involvement in Pregnancy Now, and his departure when it began to drift into a pure anti-abortion mode.

So how did this once-despised and embarrassing item – only tolerated because it was a gift from grandma − become such a sought-after look?

This will help people see that you two are not just a "secret" embarrassing item, but that you two actually do have a relationship built upon attraction, respect, trust, and shared experiences.

Especially those who buy "embarrassing items".

Nor was the selection of material skilfully arranged to pick out embarrassing items.

Elsewhere, he says Williams "routinely played slyboots with the reader or squirreled away embarrassing items about his conduct in obscure hiding places".

Crueler still is the absence of a mirror in Comptoir's fitting room, necessitating stepping out in full view of other shoppers even while trying on embarrassing items like a filmy, cream-colored pair of bloomers trimmed with broderie anglaise ($120).

Also embarrassing items—I like doing that, like toiletries.

"Crackhead" is an embarrassing line item to have on a résumé.

Now big society has disappeared entirely, like an embarrassing fashion item, worn once and pushed to the back of the cupboard.

The "best," most attractive objects are at the front of the room, while at the back, which is dimly lighted, one finds a stash of odd, disconcerting things: old underwear, soft-core pornography, family snapshots and other abject, embarrassing, unpresentable items; their presence undermines the fragile barrier between private and public space, home and the world.