There was a hint of ribbing, along with comradely encouragement, in his colleague's voice, which changed the color of Mr. Gaines's disposition to one of outright embarrassment.
The film, a rehab job on a beached marriage, displays the most tender respect, the most exquisite tact, and yet it would be completely unwatchable — an outright embarrassment — with any other actors than Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep.
And while I don't like the large payments going to some farmers -- that's an outright embarrassment -- many of these payments are keeping large sections of rural America from folding up and going down".
Disappointment and frustration and outright embarrassment teach them well.
Going back to Manafort, is there anything he could have done differently in his case, to prevent it from becoming an outright embarrassment?
No one told me of the outright embarrassment that perfectly responsible, 50-hour-a-week working folk suffer as they quietly, reluctantly and often painfully relinquish the financial protection they originally sought in having their medical bills financially covered.
Another thing that Obama's candidates share is connections to and prior praise from Republican lawmakers and administration officials from both parties, which may make it difficult for a GOP-controlled Senate to reject them outright without suffering some embarrassment.
One of the benefits of taking a casual approach is that it allows you to avoid the embarrassment of outright rejection.
And when Ford, whom Mr. Henderson manages to play with a sense of embarrassment, if not outright shame, says, "I live my life a quarter-mile at a time," Shane responds, "That is the dumbest thing I've heard".
The deputy prime minister escaped the potential embarrassment of an outright bid to enshrine withdrawal of the bill in party policy after members rejected a rebel motion on Saturday.
You will have feelings of hurt, betrayal, embarrassment, resentment and outright anger.
