Sentence examples for one embarrassment from inspiring English sources

In fact you feel that Soehn is one embarrassment away from joining Morrow on the 'newly available' list.

We were down by November: since then it's just been one embarrassment after another.

It proved one embarrassment too many for Ross, who took less than 24 hours to "fix it".

One embarrassment involved Sam Jain, chief executive of eFront Media, a defunct company that had been the hub of a network of Web sites.

However, the BBC's discomfort was small consolation to the government, which suffered one embarrassment after another as it struggled to justify its treatment of Kelly.

There's a certain Fubu jersey that would not cause one embarrassment, Ms. Adusei explained, "but that's the only thing that's O.K. -- not the shorts, not the sneakers, not the jeans, not the jackets".

My main feeling on being approached in this manner by James Murdoch – "What are you playing at?" he said, brandishing the paper – was one of embarrassment: I was embarrassed for him, I was embarrassed for the people around me, and, of course, I was embarrassed for myself.

BRUSSELS — With seven weeks remaining in its accident-prone stewardship of the European Union, the Czech Republic may have one more embarrassment to inflict on the 27-nation bloc.

"I literally ran out of new tin hat topics to research and I STILL wouldn't look at this one without embarrassment," confesses Sargent on his website, "but every time I glanced at it there was something unresolved, and once I saw the near perfection of the whole plan, I was hooked".

Instead, its focus is entirely on one thing: the embarrassment that such a visit might cause the Queen.

Inevitably, more than her share of disappointment comes her way and, reeling from one particular embarrassment, she takes up an offer of a place on a creative writing programme at NYU. There, in more liberal climes, she encounters (blind) firebrand activist Khanum (Sayani Gupta), with whom she embarks on a tremulous same-sex affair.