He heard the older tell the younger, "You tell them, you tell them," and, he said, "She almost rushed to us and blurted it out — 'I'm sorry, we don't serve blacks.' " What struck him was her embarrassment, and, telling the story, he chuckled softly, as if he were embarrassed for her.
To her embarrassment, she breaks into song.
Empathy alone couldn't overcome her embarrassment.
But she was not alone in her embarrassment.
The quality of her embarrassment was somehow familiar to him.
Perhaps her embarrassment was great enough to make her freeze.
Then again, maybe her pride in its publication would have overshadowed her embarrassment.
The eggs were confiscated, and years later she still talked of her embarrassment.
The boss gets a taste of the working life, often to his or her embarrassment.
She shared her embarrassment at being the only child who went to the nurse's office to check her blood sugar.
She never needed it, and it's done nothing but cause her embarrassment".
