Sentence examples for mounting embarrassment from inspiring English sources

In one episode, plastic surgery gone awry gives her a pig's nose, which she wears with aplomb, then with mounting embarrassment until it is repaired.

I made it through five floors before mounting embarrassment rendered me unable to continue.

The pledge came in the wake of mounting political embarrassment over the doubling of the numbers of rough sleepers across the country in the past five years, with the streets of Westminster most affected by the surge.

In a state of mounting confusion and embarrassment, I stayed until I could stand it no longer, and then I retreated down the staircase.

Still, when he saw the little Zylberfenig boys running across the slushy front yard, and screaming in Yiddish, their hair long and curling under black velvet yarmulkes as big as soup bowls, their white shirts untucked and fringes flying, he felt only revulsion and embarrassment, mounting anxiety for his neighborhood, his home, and especially his wife.

Pressure has also mounted from public embarrassment inside the FBI and elsewhere in the Justice Department that counts by the media this year have surpassed any accounting the government has to offer for itself.

The incident — a false alarm, as she described it onstage — had involved heart palpitations, a mounting panic and some awkward embarrassment.

Embarrassments mounted as school board members were accused of sometimes pathetic crimes of petty opportunism like stealing a school's grand piano or forcing principals to hand out campaign literature.

But after a while the coincidences and embarrassments mount up, and then, in the decisive style of classic French fiction, the dénouement arrives in a rush, followed by a curt "Fin," and it's over — a completed anecdote, something told, never to be confused with a piece of life.

Embarrassment in Berlin - the BBC's Jenny Hill writes: There is mounting pressure on the German government to disclose how much it knew about the espionage.

With anxieties mounting about security for the Olympic Games due to be held in Athens in 2004, Greece's failure to bring N17 to justice had been causing increasing embarrassment.