Sentence examples for embarrassing secrets from inspiring English sources

Well, someone else with embarrassing secrets -- much more embarrassing than mine -- was going to be president.

Unlike his other society swans, Capote didn't reference her in his infamous short story "La Cote Basque 1965," which exposed embarrassing secrets of his rich and influential friends.

The agencies are running out of time to prevent us from viewing the long-held and perhaps embarrassing secrets regarding Lee Harvey Oswald and his activities prior to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Instead, they grumble that ministers have been criticised for concealing information that many thought should really be made public, or have been on the receiving end of flak when embarrassing secrets have been disclosed.

The raw segment was a rare moment for an on-air celebrity, and shattered the veil hosts usually have around the "embarrassing" secrets of their private lives.

If you induce a pay-off by threatening to expose disgraceful, embarrassing secrets about someone, that can constitute extortion whether or not the ugly details are true.

Are embarrassing secret deals about to come out?

But in view of Mr. Wofford's desire not to embarrass secret organizations, his hostility to all law-enforcement agencies, and his attitude toward murder, it would be interesting to know what he wanted to be left alone to do.

On the other hand, Gibson and his inquiry team will have faced intense pressure from the intelligence agencies and senior civil servants, who will be anxious not only to avoid the airing of embarrassing state secrets, but to ensure that intelligence-sharing relationships with the US and others remain protected – even when those relationships have entailed the abuses at the heart of the inquiry.

If Queen Elizabeth hoped that the collapse of the court case last week against Paul Burrell, the royal butler accused of stealing hundreds of items belonging to Diana, the Princess of Wales, would forestall the disclosure of embarrassing royal secrets, she was sorely mistaken.

The greatest strength of some of the best chick-lit writers is the way they make bells ring in our minds; the way they reveal - with friendly humour - those embarrassing little secrets that so many of us have not admitted to ourselves, let alone others.