Sentence examples for internal embarrassment from inspiring English sources

Mrs. Mansouret, 65, said that the story had caused internal embarrassment, but given a culture of privacy about sex, politicians did not want to throw the first stone.

That conflict tidbit is about as far as my knowledge of Sri Lankan history goes, so to save myself the internal embarrassment of being totally ignorant, I thought I'd give Yannick a call in the hope he'd make me less of an idiot.

That conflict titbit is about as far as my knowledge of Sri Lankan history goes, so to save myself the internal embarrassment of being totally ignorant, I thought I'd give Yannick a call in the hope he'd make me less of an idiot.

National treasure or national embarrassment?

After the correction to Goldberg's review was added, Joe Pompeo, at Vanity Fair, described internal contention and embarrassment at the Times surrounding the piece.

The embattled Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell was today facing fresh embarrassment as an internal report said it could have to pull out of Nigeria because of violence in the Niger delta region.

Internal consistencies for the different vicarious embarrassment situations were high (Cronbach's α first-person embarrassment: AA = .86; AU = .96; IA = .88; IU = .85; vicarious embarrassment: AA = .93; AU = .93; IA = .89; IU = .90).90

A combination of embarrassment, political necessity and internal pressure led to changes inside Wal-Mart's headquarters.

Instead, he just did "one of those internal sneezes" and saved himself the embarrassment.

Secondary role and intrapsychic strains are negative consequences of primary stressors for fulfilling social roles (for example, work and family) and for internal psyche (for example, feelings of embarrassment and isolation).

"When people feel anonymous, they no longer have the internal social self-checks of self-consciousness, embarrassment, guilt, or shame that would ordinarily rein in [this type of] behavior," he says.