Sentence examples for embarrassing joke from inspiring English sources

To praise the beauty of this film, then, is not enough; what lends it tension is that it's wrapped around people for whom beauty is at best an anachronism and at worst an embarrassing joke, like gracious conduct or any hint of duty or service — all the stuff that belongs to big-studio cinema, with its superheroes and stuck-up guys in period costume.

They promptly posted the worst regular season record in modern times, and were thought of as a rather embarrassing joke.

James McClean used the words "embarrassing" and "joke" in a tweet after the Republic of Ireland scored twice in the last four minutes to beat Kazakhstan.

His comic shtick, like Doctor Brown's, involves the audience in a clever and subversive series of sometimes embarrassing visual jokes.

If they use a joke to embarrass you, laugh along!

Spielberg subsequently dictated a memo back to Sheinberg, wherein Spielberg convinced him they thought his title was just a joke, thus embarrassing him into dropping the idea.

They were harmless, just kind of embarrassing with their trivial jokes and less-than-clever wordplay.

They document tedious office politics, relentless meeting scheduling, deeply embarrassing romantic drama, misogynist jokes, chain-emails, reflections on life as a corporate executive [in the 2000s] and, of course, revelations of large-scale corporate malfeasance and fraud".

Wall pictures will be seen by almost every visitor to your home, many of which won't be able to appreciate the inside jokes behind embarrassing photos or goofy low-brow art.

"There was a joke about Nicole Kidman, and Thierry Fremaux asked me if the joke could be embarrassing for her.

Lafitte also revealed the Cannes director, Thierry Fremaux, had asked Allen if he was embarrassed by the joke, but the director confirmed he was not.