Sentence examples for embarrassment look from inspiring English sources

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Nobody else working in movies today can make her own misery such a source of delight or make the spectacle of utter embarrassment look like a higher form of dignity.

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The one time we did have topless women in the office – they trooped in with a PR to plug some random product – the editor was horrified and the staff awkward and red-faced with embarrassment, looking intently at their screens.

I'm filled with shame and embarrassment looking back on my part in stultifying the minds of others.

And to end the threat that our embarrassment and "look the other way" tendencies are having on our health, a cultural shift needs to occur.

No wonder "Blow-Up" (1966) came as such an embarrassment: one look at the clothes and the haircuts of swinging London, and you knew that Antonioni should not have forsaken his native ground.

With embarrassment, I look back now to that terrible conflict and the cruel words I wrote so many years ago; that one day, after years of Syrian military "peacekeepers" in Lebanon, the Lebanese army may be asked to fulfil the role of "peacekeepers" in Syria.

It seems to us that there might be a feeling of embarrassment in looking down on our body & reflecting that once it belonged to many men.

That is, against the embarrassment of looking or of liking, of self-expression or self-absorption.

He tried to cover his embarrassment by looking down at the bull, whose legs were stretched out straight, the meaty parts of its thighs still twitching.

What should have been this year's Still Alice was simply an embarrassment – Page and Moore looked uncomfortable throughout; Steve Carell's flamboyant employment lawyer didn't help.

She seemed OK, but then people would darkly say things beginning "Of course you realise…", the end of which I never properly heard, focused as I was on avoiding the social embarrassment of looking like I didn't realise whatever it was.

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