Sentence examples similar to known embarrassments from inspiring English sources

I know the embarrassment that causes women to hide the disease that reduces them to a bag of nerve endings and pain.

Nevertheless, Barker's fate will elicit a sympathetic cringe from anyone involved in publishing (the Guardian, thankfully, barely knows the embarrassment of the inopportune literal, as printing errors are called in the trade. Everyone is familiar with the drill: any story with the word "public" in it must be read by at least four different editors).

Because he's never asked (312) I don't know, probably embarrassment.

(Trish, 2 sons aged 8 and 6) I am now able to deal with, even you know, the embarrassment of being in a shop and him having an outburst.

(son aged 10) Some parents reflected on a lessening of the emotional intensity they experienced in public encounters over time: I am now able to deal with, even you know, the embarrassment of being in a shop and him having an outburst.

And why would lengthy rehashes of well-known embarrassments (e.g. the James Frey/"A Million Little Pieces" flap) be interesting?

Its only well-known embarrassments are its history of enthusiastically slaughtering whales and Anders Breivik with his history of enthusiastically slaughtering people.

PAGE A20 THE ROAD TO SOMEWHERE SHADY The Senate has taken the unusual step of proposing that the Justice Department begin a criminal investigation of a long-running Congressional embarrassment known as the Coconut Road earmark.

Because I have an innie instead of an outtie, I've never known the crushing embarrassment of suffering an ill-timed and unexplainable boner.

It's no wonder New York State's budget-making process is nationally known as an annual embarrassment.

This embarrassment is known, predictably, as "bendgate".