"My opponent," he said, removing his hat and gripping the top of it, "seems to enjoy embarrassing me.
"We have always prided ourselves as being the northern terminus of the Underground Railroad, so we never stop enjoying embarrassing America as inferior in race relations," said Austin Clarke, an acclaimed Canadian novelist who was born in Barbados.
She said she found curtsies embarrassing and enjoyed being filmed while riding her bicycle in a flowery housewife's dress.
One relationship particularly vexed Ali-Reza: Hossein, perched in the coach's front row, clearly enjoyed teasing, lecturing and embarrassing the younger man.
"Enjoy it, and embarrass him," was the final instruction issued by Booth to Haye's stablemate George Groves as the first bell sounded for the recent fight with James DeGale in which Groves implicitly followed Booth's back-foot strategy to upset the Olympic champion.
And while it may be widely described as a hoot by theatergoers embarrassed at having enjoyed it, it gives off a moist-eyed sincerity that is beyond camp.
(Well, at least until now; I have known my most frequent teen pen pals for 20 years, and we sometimes haul out our shoeboxes full of embarrassing juvenilia and enjoy cringing together).
Youthful looking and elegantly attired, he says he now enjoys "unprecedented popularity, which is almost embarrassing for me — I'm not used to it".
Ultimately I didn't enjoy it because I thought it was embarrassing".
