Sentence examples for embarrassments with from inspiring English sources

So why not expunge these embarrassments with a one-in, one-out policy?

Composed in short and jumpy chapters akin in tone to the amiable absurdism of Raymond Queneau and Robert Pinget, the novel begins like a Gallic version of Kingsley Amis's "Lucky Jim" or Jay McInerney's "Bright Lights, Big City" — an account of a young goof-off's embarrassments with liquor, women, and gainful employment.

Mr. Gore, who has emerged from his own campaign finance embarrassments with the zeal of a convert, said he intends to commit himself so heavily to a ban on soft money as embodied in McCain-Feingold that even the most suspicious voter will recognize he would have no choice but to carry through.

Van der Eb, 53, compares President Clinton's embarrassments with Richard Nixon's.

They try to shrug off local scandals or embarrassments with those kinds of platitudes.

(There were two successes, with Sally Field and Jennifer Aniston, and one major embarrassment, with Anne Hathaway).

But first, allow me to delay my public embarrassment with a few words about my hair.

It was decided that it would be an embarrassment, with only about 10,000 members voting.

Liberals have long criticised America's acceptance of state-sanctioned death as an international embarrassment with little deterrent effect.

The Federal Election Commission is an embarrassment, with Republican members blocking enforcement recommendations from the commission's own investigators.

"There was disappointment, obviously, but to a certain degree there was embarrassment with the way we played," Howe said.