Sentence examples for embarrassing pause from inspiring English sources
I said that!' " Ferrell's comic trademark — the embarrassing pause, followed by a fervent re-statement of his position — both prompts and characterizes these fan interactions.
Thoughts of embarrassing pauses over post-prandial espressos can be banished.
When I asked Kawakubo what those early designs looked like (she hasn't kept many pictures in her archives), she answered after a long, perhaps embarrassed, pause, "Denim apron skirt.
Embarrassed, pregnant pauses contrasted with guilty, slightly worried laughs.
You most likely will redirect the student's attention to the lesson without embarrassing him/her or pausing your dialogue.
Exhausted, shaken, embarrassed, he hardly paused to observe the polished sea before removing his coat and vaulting over the ship's railing into the foaming wake.
These failures were embarrassing, and yet rather than give Washington pause they served to intensify the US vendetta against Castro's revolution.
Mr. Letterman noted that it would be embarrassing for his liaisons to be publicly known, then paused a beat.
Closer to my home, it embarrasses me to stop, pause and think that more San Francisco 49ers have been arrested than any other team, including All-Pro linebacker Aldon Smith and Ray McDonald, who as the New York Times reported on Friday was arrested in late August on domestic violence charges after an altercation with his pregnant fiancée, who had visible injuries according to police.
But it would be embarrassing for the front-runner, and it might give a few party elders pause for thought.With only three primaries left, Mr Obama is ahead, with 16.7m votes to her 16.2m, a slender edge of 450,000.
