Sentence examples for embarrassing memories from inspiring English sources

One senses that whenever he interacted with Jews, and especially when he saw them persecuted, embarrassing memories of General Orders No. 11 flooded into Grant's mind.

Embarrassing memories still haunt many of us; things like losing control of one's bodily functions.

But for Mr Brooks, "it is one of those embarrassing memories that pop up unbidden at 4 in the morning".

Painful, embarrassing memories of the angry anti-Washington culture that flourished here 50 years ago — and now seems a permanent part of the national mood — have resurfaced, confronting Dallasites daily.

In the beginning, there was only Mike Turner, a prosperous construction company owner, who allowed his name to be made public along with his embarrassing memories of having been sexually violated as a boy by his parish priest.

– Everyone alive can recall five of the most crippling, flinch-inducing, embarrassing memories in their life.

And when Rolling Stone claim that in the video "the band attacks governmental data surveillance and modern information overload", I am going to watch the shit out that, even if the mention of KoЯn's name – or just a backwards "R" – makes me involuntarily cringe as a deluge of embarrassing teenage memories come flooding up from deep inside me.

One wonders whether there is something forward-thrusting in the presidential psyche that is impatient to transcend the past, or may even be embarrassed by memories of ordinariness.

On the other hand there is the occasional London production of an American play that gets everything so right that you feel slightly embarrassed by memories of recent versions of the same work back home.

The social networking giant turned 10 years old yesterday and it had all the hallmarks of any other anniversary: well-wishers, memories, embarrassing stories, baby pictures and – perhaps the last thing you want to hear at your own party – suggestions about your impending death.

And when Rolling Stone claims that in the video "the band attacks governmental data surveillance and modern information overload," I am going to watch the shit out that, even if the mention of Korn's name or just a backwards R makes me involuntarily cringe as a deluge of embarrassing middle-school memories come flooding up from deep inside me.