Sentence examples for quiet embarrassment from inspiring English sources

Instead, a photo like this is going to do one of two things -- stoke up sympathetic anger from Bachmann's supporters or generate cheap laughs (or quiet embarrassment) from everyone else.

It's muted embarrassment from prior supporters, mixed with quiet smugness from detractors," said one tweet.

We don't know the true scale of fraud because many victims keep quiet out of embarrassment, wondering why they fell for a persuasive patter.

A picture of the White House officials was published Wednesday in the Frederick (Md). News-Post, making the quiet trip a public embarrassment.

For a few years I used to open my monthly copy of the metrosexual (well-groomed and fashion-conscious heterosexual man) magazine Monocle with a mixture of quiet expectation and distinct embarrassment.

"They'd rather have an embarrassing situation kept quiet within their ranks than save the embarrassment of telling the whole truth to the public".

"But the president wanted to do it in a quiet way, without further public embarrassment for Mahathir".

But black people get it fine: they chuckle, cover their faces in mock embarrassment or nod in quiet agreement.

While close friends visiting my home might be allowed a look at my haphazard bug-out bag, I mostly kept quiet about prepping, aware of the embarrassment I was courting.

He still had career goals and ambitions that could be thwarted with heroin use on his "résumé." While it's harder to admit, we also kept quiet out of some sense of embarrassment or shame.

Her mother-in-law said in her statement that she had previously kept quiet about the case to avoid unnecessary embarrassment to the Chinese authorities.