Sentence examples for high embarrassment from inspiring English sources

That performance earned him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor and a moment of high embarrassment at the awards ceremony.

His visits to a psychologist, played by Katharine Ross, become a fiasco when she puts him in a hypnotic trance and he insists on talking about sex, no matter what the question, and starts unbuttoning his jeans, about to masturbate: a wonderful moment of high embarrassment.

Those £100 shoes might be markedly cheaper online, but the would-be showroomer has to have a very high embarrassment threshold to walk out with a straight face.

Corbyn has a higher embarrassment threshold.

Specifically, in terms of emotions, participants felt higher embarrassment in traditional bullying scenarios and higher anger in electronic bullying scenarios.

When James Ward got this tournament rolling by giving the defending champion a three-set workout on Monday, it took him a set to find his equilibrium; similarly, Liam Broady spent his first set against Murray wondering how high the embarrassment factor would rise before he got on roughly level terms.

For the Hartford Police Department and Chief Bruce P. Marquis, a former F.B.I. agent brought in from Texas two years ago to turn around a force stung by one high-profile embarrassment after another, Officer DePietro's revelations, reported by The Hartford Courant on Tuesday, are a humbling reminder of the work left to be done.

As Advanced Trading said: "In a nutshell, it's another high-profile embarrassment that adds more fuel to a widespread perception of today's marketplace as being simply too fast and too complex for regulators or participants to control.

Her previous show Touchdown delved into her early teenage years, with stories of high-school embarrassments framed around unlikely sporting triumphs.

The article is a nod to high-profile embarrassments like the one that a teenager caused by carving his mark—"Ding Jinhao was here"—into an ancient wall in the Egyptian ruins at Luxor earlier this year.

This phenomenon is seen as one of the enduring mysteries of minority politics: why do so many gay men support a party they may think doesn't (or once didn't) support them? (Another mystery, incidentally, is why a Liberal Democrat party keenly supportive of gay rights should have suffered so many high-profile embarrassments over closeted MPs, but that is for another day).