And then it hit me how deeply affected people had been and my embarrassment went away.
Many details of the governor's role in this episode are unclear, but the accounts presented in court and police records and interviews with the woman's lawyer and others portray a brutal encounter, a frightened woman and an effort to make a potential political embarrassment go away.
Fear of embarrassment keeps some away, which is why choosing the right class is crucial.
And often he saved the nation, the way he did against Nigeria in 1994, the minutes rolling away, embarrassment looming.
Elsewhere people turn away in embarrassment or run for the hills".
But blood also gives us away, revealing embarrassment when it rushes to the face, or lust when it rushes elsewhere.
Among Britain's governing élite, not knowing the book, or not liking it, is something of an embarrassment to be explained away.
"It's like a stage that they set up for us," said Mr. Vader, a retired teacher, who occasionally has turned his deck chair away in embarrassment.
His success carried him to New York, where to his embarrassment he took assignments away from longtime illustrators, including Austin Briggs, one of Mr. Fuchs's heroes.
