Sentence examples for embarrassments from from inspiring English sources

As long as they were scrubbing embarrassments from All-Star history, the scoreboard operators should have also erased 2012.

Khrushchev's boast about the new correlation of forces in the world may have brought the Soviets a series of embarrassments from 1957 to 1962, but a decade later it seemed perversely justified.

This is especially true of Zawe Ashton's Vod, a student who combines high intelligence with a low sense of risk, engulfing her in sexual, financial and academic embarrassments from which she must escape through her fast, smart mouth.

Now embarking on a massive construction plan to build Heathrow's fifth terminal, BAA has also put behind it two big embarrassments from 2001 its nearly $300 million loss on the sale of its World Duty Free Americas business, purchased for $415 million in 1997, and its cancelation of a deal with Eurotunnel after mounting losses from its retail operations in terminals for the U.K.-France tunnel.

Saunas are frequently looked down on as sleazy, grotty, and potentially unsafe embarrassments from a time when gay men were forced to live in the shadows.

This was an embarrassment from the start.

For DaimlerChrysler, the poor showing was a second embarrassment from the testing.

His players enjoyed a muted celebration, partly out of embarrassment from defeat in front of so many Lebanese fans.

Embarrassment from an unplanned pregnancy or economic hardship — are these really reasons to choose to end a life?

But now the number of people coming to clubs has reduced because nobody wants embarrassment from the security at checkpoints".

He has no sense of embarrassment, shyness or social conventions; this can lead to some embarrassment from me, although most people's reactions are positive.