Sentence examples for genuine embarrassment from inspiring English sources

Accepting an award with a mixture of obliviousness and genuine embarrassment is by far the best, and most classy, way to go.

"But there is also genuine embarrassment about those who use substances or turn out to be who they did not claim".

Chasing a target of 268, this was the first genuine embarrassment the Scots have suffered after making the step up to the National league.

We saw this woman being so completely genuine with zero embarrassment and we loved her for it.

But we have demanded persuasive argument that distinguishes between a genuine threat and mere bureaucratic embarrassment or inconvenience.

On the contrary, she documents a widespread sense that the press had gone "too far", and finds abundant evidence of compliant editors enforcing omerta on stories that, in retrospect, appear to have threatened embarrassment rather than genuine security harms.

In this version, Antonio's affection for Sebastian is made explicitly erotic, and Mr. Harbour conveys it with a gruff embarrassment and a genuine capacity for being wounded that cuts through this muddled production like a searchlight through fog.

This is something that has doubtless happened to many of us while on holiday, but a new initiative will hopefully put an end to the hassle and embarrassment of having genuine transactions declined or your card blocked.

Kasper Schmeichel probably appreciated the mistake even less when the former Liverpool defender attempted to pin the blame elsewhere, squaring up to the Leicester keeper surely out of embarrassment rather than genuine exasperation.

Funnier still is the challenge in which the trio were told to convert everyday street cars into limos and then ferry VIPs to the Brit Awards: singer Lemar's fury as James May signally fails to work out a route to Earl's Court is clearly genuine, as is Jamelia's embarrassment at the contraption she's expected to ride in with Richard Hammond.

When the likes of David Cameron, the Daily Mail and Kelvin MacKenzie rail against Scottish independence, this may, in part, stem from ideological embarrassment rather than a genuine fondness for the Union.