Sentence examples for minor embarrassment from inspiring English sources

For most, it is a minor embarrassment or an awkward moment.

You risk nothing but minor embarrassment, and you might be of some help.

The incident was a minor embarrassment to Mr. Romney, who shrugged it off, according to other close aides.

I fished around, working toward things I have long worshiped and others about which I have felt minor embarrassment.

Hers was a minor embarrassment compared with the bloopers involving some executives as television appearances become a bigger part of their job descriptions.

One minor embarrassment came recently with the news that his publican brother was a tax defaulter who had been ordered to pay almost €100,000 (£78,000) in taxes and fines.

This led to one or two minor embarrassments when the 1950 World Cup got under way.

These can range from relatively minor embarrassments to Sal getting a photorealistic tattoo of Jaden Smith on his thigh.

The WikiLeaks dump contains (so far) a number of minor embarrassments, a few surprises, a lot of confirmations of what we already pretty much knew, and no scandals.

Some politicians, as they used to say of Ronald Reagan, seem coated in Teflon, while others seem covered in Krazy Glue, unable to shake the stickiness of what seem like minor embarrassments.

Some donations are considered eyesores, some minor embarrassments — like the priapic sculpture of a bull elephant near the north fence, his majestic anatomy safely hidden by a thick hedge the height of his stomach.