Sentence examples for embarrassing speech from inspiring English sources

In a supremely embarrassing speech, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith's best man invites the guests to join him in a pious hymn that no one knows.

It is hard to imagine an appreciation of serious poetry being deepened among readers who witness these faintly embarrassing speech acts.

The extravagant and embarrassing speech in public that closes "Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People" in Birds of America is done again here in "Debarking", laboriously making the character drunk this time.

It wasn't an embarrassing speech, but it wasn't much.

The drunken uncles, the weeping bridesmaids, the embarrassing best man's speech?

For the next two minutes I felt as if I was having an out-of-body experience, but I delivered my speech without embarrassing myself.

When the prime minister spoke to the U.S. Congress last month about the potential Iran deal -- at the invitation of Republicans and without coordinating with the White House -- Feinstein called his speech "humiliating, embarrassing, and very arrogant".

While Eastwood's speech was embarrassing both for Eastwood and the Republican Party, it was only a more awkward and blunt formulation of the Republican message and sentiment that was expressed throughout the convention.

Unlike Jane Austen's novels, which always end with the marriage ceremony, I Give It a Year starts with the orange blossom, embarrassing best man's speech and the groom's ill-advised novelty dance.

Sadly, despite this string of embarrassing defeats for free-speech zones in courts across the country (not to mention the court of public opinion!), too many colleges are far too comfortable designating a small area of campus for free speech, leaving the vast majority of school grounds a censorship zone.

H Her speech embarrassed everybody thoroughly.