There were occasions in his career when an excess of zeal on the side of the light betrayed him into utterances welcomed by his critics and - what he minded more – embarrassing to his friends.
"He sees some cameras and national media and sees an opportunity in his mind to embarrass the district attorney's office," Fitzpatrick said.
"My mind is embarrassed by the number and wide variety of subjects that attract me, and the enlarging vista that each brings with it," she wrote.
QUESTION FROM VIC: Immediately before learning of this live chat today, I'd coincidentally read the paragraph quoting Eliot as writing, "My mind is embarrassed by the number and wide variety of subjects that attract me, and the enlarging vista that each brings with it".
In 1846 Baudelaire wrote, "The position that he wants to create for himself between Ingres, whose pupil he is, and Delacroix, whom he is seeking to pilfer, creates a feeling of equivocation in the public mind, and is embarrassing for him personally".
In 1846 Baudelaire wrote of Chassériau, "The position that he wants to create for himself between Ingres, whose pupil he is, and Delacroix, whom he is seeking to pilfer, creates a feeling of equivocation in the public mind, and is embarrassing for him personally".
Elaine Showalter found Yealland's 'Orwellian scenes of mind control painfully embarrassing to contemporary readers' (Showalter, 1987, p. 178).
There's nothing on Mind of Mine as embarrassing as Robbie trying to hit a high note in the song Kids, his risible duet with Kylie Minogue.
To think of the mind of George Eliot embarrassed by its own range is almost unbearably poignant, in its uneasy balance of aspiration and diffidence.
He said that because he tried so much new stuff, and just said whatever was on his mind, he was embarrassed by it because it was so fresh.
