Sentence examples for embarrassing reminder from inspiring English sources

The group had escaped arrest and prosecution for decades, an embarrassing reminder of Greece's political inefficacy.

It is also an embarrassing reminder of Britain's residual status as a colonial power.

Surely not to today's Japan, for she could hardly be welcome there, and her presence might be an embarrassing reminder of bad times.

Those who care for them, professionally or otherwise, are underpaid and undervalued, an embarrassing reminder of something we would rather ignore.

The latest revelations about secret British and US intelligence co-operation with the Gaddafi regime are an embarrassing reminder of a very different period.

Rows of St George crosses still flapped from pubs, like the day after the night before - an embarrassing reminder of our capacity for self-delusion.

Once you've eventually picked on a couple of societies, you'll just have your email spammed up with all those embarrassing reminders from the time you tried octopush or the like.

With the stroke of a pen, Secretary Panetta consigned these two assumptions to the dustbin of history, where, along with military racial segregation and "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT), they can serve as embarrassing reminders of how easy it is to justify our prejudices in the name of security.

Bush's behavior was deeply embarrassing, another reminder that we were being led by a man who did not deserve to be President, who lacked the essential quality of compassion.

"Listening to a recording made almost five years ago at a highly stressful and volatile uncertain time is both embarrassing and a shocking reminder of how much pressure my colleagues and I were under at that time".

Many find them too expensive, difficult to manipulate, embarrassing — or just too poignant a reminder of advancing age.