The e-mail's potential for political embarrassment lay partly in what it suggested about the Conservatives' sensitivity to the mood of Mr. Murdoch and his son James, who until earlier this year was the principal overseer of the Murdoch media properties in Britain.
The original Acid1 test had forced browser makers to fix their applications or face embarrassment; Lie hoped that Acid2 would do the same.
For the Tories, the worst embarrassments lay in charges for the clearing of a moat, a shipment of horse manure for a garden, the maintenance of sprawling woodlands, the installation of a miniature "duck house" in a country house pond.
So children will recognize, perhaps with a touch of embarrassment, the lies and excuses in "I Want My Hat Back," the first book written and illustrated by Jon Klassen, a Canadian-born illustrator who previously illustrated "Cats' Night Out" by Caroline Stutson.
Some politicians show no apparent embarrassment about lying.
Its demi-monde was the behind-the-scenes universe of modern celebrities, and its best material about the embarrassments that lay therein, giving the show a ripped-from-the-headlines quality.
Embarrassment and frustration lie ahead; drills, repetition, and the infinite boredom of conjugation await you, and the prospect of mangling words that sit like rocks in your mouth.
First, let's clarify that there is nothing particularly newsworthy about the man who might be our next Attorney General attempting to hide a personal embarrassment by repeatedly lying about it publicly and then possibly orchestrating a vast house-buying and hush-money-paying conspiracy to cover it up.
These results may reflect a greater sense of embarrassment of the lay public, and therefore, a greater reluctance to share information about one's cognitive functioning with others outside the family.
