Sentence examples for embarrassing length from inspiring English sources

The failures of regulators, whom the FCIC describes as "sentries not at their posts", are laid out at embarrassing length.

As Michael Erard reckons it in "Um...," his informal study of verbal stumbles and pratfalls, the average person will commit somewhere between 7 and 22 slips of the tongue each day and from two to four times a day will struggle, for an embarrassing length of time, to find the right word or name.

In an essay in the September issue of Harper's, Jonathan Franzen quotes — at what he concedes is "embarrassing length" — from letters he sent to his fiancée when he was 22. "I recognize Pynchon as my major precursor," the young, besotted Franzen wrote.

But in that same release, Buffett went to embarrassing lengths to absolve his former top lieutenant, even writing at one point, "Neither Dave nor I feel his Lubrizol purchases were in any way unlawful".

The deputy prime minister's big idea was shelved in 2004 after voters in the north-east decided four to one that they did not want an expensive talking shop.Since then Gordon Brown has gone to embarrassing lengths to talk up Britishness and Mr Blair has responded to questions about the "question" by arguing that it would be unworkable to have two classes of MP at Westminster.

The most egregious of their tributes was an epic poem by Muriel Rukeyser, embarrassing both in its length (330 pp).

"All of these were considered crucial at various stages, and all were eventually discarded as the list of candidates shrank and the search length became embarrassing.

Together, Brolin and LaBeouf have a fantastically embarrassing macho scene in which they metaphorically measure up the length and girth of their respective male members by challenging each other to a motorbike race.

That sad and sordid tale, explored at length in a 1998 New Yorker article, was deeply embarrassing.

Taryn: "Queen" should've been called "Stunt Queen" cause the lengths she's going to promote it are embarrassing at this point.

A length limit forces you to get straight to the point and eliminates the possibility of embarrassing yourself by using adjectives like "pulsing," which makes your pussy or dick sound like the still-beating heart of a butchered mammal.