Sentence examples for embarrassing means from inspiring English sources

The payoff, say doctors who text, tweet and post, is a better-informed teenager who finds social media a faster and less embarrassing means to have questions asked and answered.

She had not heard my entrance into the room; and I allowed myself the luxury of admiring her for a few moments, before I moved one of the chairs near me, as the least embarrassing means of attracting her attention.

TIME was when being embarrassed meant having egg on your face.

When that involves a young adult being diagnosed with cancer -- stage four -- in her 30s, Mom will do anything it takes to bring a smile to their face, even if it means embarrassing herself!

Failure would mean embarrassing deadlock just as the EU undergoes its historic "big bang" on May 1.

There are two banking systems in this country: one is a dysfunctional mega-banking network where institutions take wild risks with depositors' money and redefine "success" to mean embarrassing profits followed by hemorrhaging losses requiring taxpayer bailout Band-Aids; the other is a system where moderate risk is the norm and failure is an unfortunate consequence.

A further cable claims Lorna Golding, the Jamaican prime minister's wife, told a US embassy official that the extradition request "had been orchestrated as a means of embarrassing her husband politically" by people – including US congressman Charles Rangel – sympathetic to her husband's political enemies.

They know that the striking of nationalist poses is mainly a means of embarrassing all opposition, of justifying the perpetuation of repressive "emergency" laws in place since 1963, and is all the more phony in that this old guard has done so much to incapacitate the country for a nationalist struggle of any kind.

Similarly, Mrs. Golding attributed the Coke extradition request to Congressman Rangel's "whispering in Secretary Clinton's ear" and the PNP's "pernicious influence" within the Jamaican diaspora, and insisted that the extradition request had been orchestrated as a means of embarrassing her husband politically.

Mixed in with unmentionably candid advice and embarrassing tales of failure meant only for the ears of YC's founders and mentors are stories worth spreading beyond the accelerator.

Don't do anything outright mean or embarrassing.