Sentence examples for look embarrassing from inspiring English sources

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Mounting evidence that the plane was most likely brought down by a terrorist bomb has made such statements look embarrassing.

Gaming's ongoing push into the mainstream consciousness has entered a bold new phase – by appealing to the players' intelligence and imagination, it's starting to make Hollywood look embarrassing.

But fast approaching 40, the age difference between Moyles and the DJ's intended audience of 18- to 30-year-olds has been starting to look embarrassing for some time.

Those out-of-town stores look embarrassing as well as expensive when the new success stories are either small and centrally located or, increasingly – like the fashion-for-under-40s label Asos (sales up 40% last year) – don't have stores at all.

If such poems look embarrassing now, what are they going to look like in 20 years?" The poems of the Nebraskan Ted Kooser come "slathered in sentiment like corn on the cob with butter," those of Gary Snyder are compared to "the disconnected thoughts of a man trying to make verse with magnets on a refrigerator door," while Anne Carson's are like "parlor games of extraordinary tedium".

Passionate utterances, whether of love or anger, will always look embarrassing under a prurient stranger's eye better not to utter them.

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During the session, many pupils look embarrassed.

But the general didn't look embarrassed at all.

Not only don't they look embarrassed when their voices falter and crack, but no one looks embarrassed for them.

Why did the mayor not come to Mohammed's funeral?" Some of the family members look embarrassed.

A few of the performers have the decency to look embarrassed by the worst of them, but most of the comedy is executed with near-hysterical fervor.

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