Sentence examples for embarrassing tendency from inspiring English sources

In recent years, I've had an increasingly embarrassing tendency to search out some of the trails that took me hither and thither in earlier times.

PARIS — The actor Gérard Depardieu, who was best known until recently as a pillar of French cinema with an occasionally embarrassing tendency to over-imbibe, this week made an ignominious name for himself as a tax evader, drawing the ire of the government, the news media and a good number of his fellow French citizens.

I could've cried it out, but I have an embarrassing tendency to not stop crying once I start.

Last summer, Christianity Today columnist and church statistic aficionado Ed Stetzer wrote a fantastic article about the Church's embarrassing tendency to share fake news stories online.

Men sport the longest, thickest primate penis, as well as an embarrassing tendency to reach orgasm when the woman is just getting warmed up.

She has a tendency to make embarrassing and often naive statements.

Then there's the band's embarrassing debt to Coldplay, and their tendency to repeat themselves ('This is the Last Time' is 'Bend And Break' mark two).

Target approached Douglas Adams on a number of occasions with a view to commissioning a novelisation, offering their standard advance of £600; Adams replied saying, "I don't want to be embarrassing but I do have a tendency to be a best-selling author".

The tendency surfaces most showily in that embarrassing American recreational staple, the company picnic, in which everyone runs wild to a song called "Once-a-Year Day".

And yet, here I am, writing under this slightly embarrassing title bestowed upon me by Guardian editors who noticed my tendency to have, and share, opinions about food.

Can tell a great story, but has a tendency to ask detailed questions of his co-hosts, which can result in embarrassing silence.