Sentence examples for embarrassing one from inspiring English sources

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I'm usually the embarrassing one jumping up and down on the dancefloor, but Scott is more level-headed and he does have to rein me in a bit sometimes".

One is to imagine that worst case scenario that's really holding you back (like embarrassing one's self--that's a big one for most of us) and saying to yourself, "So what?" People embarrass themselves all the time; in fact, if you watch popular and charming people, you'll see that they mess up too, but more importantly, they respond gracefully to their own mistakes.

The UK famously got nul points and thus what was supposed to be a proud moment turned out to be a rather embarrassing one.

Many in Lithuania have viewed the scandal as a sign of the strength of the country's nascent democracy, albeit an embarrassing one.

I'd prefer that sort of victory to the sort of slightly embarrassing one that NZ managed earlier, fantastic as McCullum was.

"The incident has been a painful and certainly an embarrassing one for me and the Department of Corrections," Mr. Terhune said at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier today.

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We defended well in patches but there were some really poor individual errors, some embarrassing one-on-one stuff.

The point of this was not to spread the "feminist agenda", as some commenters bizarrely suggested, but to make a serious joke about the fact the morning after pill is both expensive in the UK (up to £36) and difficult to procure (an embarrassing one-on-one consultation is necessary and can involve travelling around different pharmacies).

They found that they shared a love of theater, Woody Allen films and "terrible 80's music like Wham! and Duran Duran and embarrassing one-hit wonders," she said, adding, "We talked until the battery on my cordless phone died".

The nauseatingly empathetic Italian hotelier is the most conspicuous example, but even Richard Burton Richard Burtonn! The most charismatic man who ever walked the earth!) is reduced to a pastiche of a misunderstood, alcoholic brute with a heart of gold, mainly via an embarrassing one-page soliloquy.

"At open days with my daughter, I was under oath not to ask any questions – in case I asked embarrassing ones," says Mike Nicholson, director of admissions at the University of Bath.

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