Sentence examples for embarrassing misunderstanding from inspiring English sources
The people whining about BBC3 going online are showing an embarrassing misunderstanding of the audience BBC3 exists to serve.
The result is that French and English have a greater overlap of shared vocabulary than French and Italian (or, for that matter, English and Italian).But the two languages also have a number of faux amis, friends so false that they will provoke many an embarrassing misunderstanding.
One embarrassing misunderstanding later - he couldn't understand why I was asking for a costume fitting for a voiceover "er, no, sorry, we meant on-screen narrator, not off-screen voiceover artist... .. - and Pete came straight from a BBC drama to our hastily built set in a carpet warehouse in Willesden, north-west London.
Three false starts, one embarrassing misunderstanding involving suspected breaking and entering, and I was ready to give up, until rolling down a quiet side street, we came across a handsome young man stood outside a gate.
Though she was embarrassed over the misunderstanding, she said she had still felt a spark, and was greatly disappointed.
Every farce (and this play eventually turns farcical) must have at least one ridiculous misunderstanding to set up the embarrassing mistakes.
Hospital employees and family members serving as unskilled translators compromise patient confidentiality and raise potential for medical misunderstanding from using an unskilled translator, who may be reluctant to relay bad news or embarrassing questions to the patient [21].
Nevertheless: embarrassing.
