For months, he was the unacceptable face of celebrity: a heartless, leering bully who inflicted embarrassment on a sweet old man.
Ms. Stanley manages to slam sitcoms in general, and Oscar Wilde specifically, with her faulty premise that their humor relies on enduring or inflicting embarrassment.
But it was not inevitable that it was going to do so in a manner intended to inflict maximum embarrassment on Labour – as it did on Tuesday night.
Pat Glass MP Shadow minister for Europe Fawzi Ibrahim (Letters, 31 March) wants to use the EU referendum to inflict maximum embarrassment on the government.
But with Labour as divided as the Tories over Brexit – in particular over membership of the single market – Theresa May could yet decide to inflict maximum embarrassment on Corbyn by holding the Commons votes during the byelection campaign.
The quest for justice conducted by Belhaj and his Moroccan wife, Fatima Bouchar, following their 2004 rendition from the far east to Muammar Gaddafi's interrogation and torture cells in Tripoli may be moving with frustrating slowness but it threatens to inflict fresh embarrassment on the authorities.
Captain Lisa De Vanna and teenager Beattie Goad also got on the scoresheet, while Marianna Tabain inflicted further embarrassment on the Sky Blues just past the hour mark with a fifth.
The sole motivation of one character, Lady Lurewell, is to wreak vengeance on the entire male race, which makes for one prank after another as she inflicts maximum embarrassment on as many of her would-be suitors as possible.
Is it credible that an Israeli announcement of building construction inflicted grave embarrassment on Biden?
Though talented, Mr Johnson is himself a flawed and erratic candidate, who may, as mayor, inflict as much embarrassment on his party as Mr Livingstone once did on his.
Criticism of the impact of changes to legal aid – which sliced £350m off the civil legal aid budget – is not new but coming from an official body and focusing on the plight of children is likely to inflict greater political embarrassment.
