A guy can just kind of whip it out and go at the side, women are left thinking: er, what am I meant to do?" Women will often remain silent out of embarrassment, and even if these concerns are voiced, they tend to be given short shrift: "Guys will say, just piss over the side of the boat, but I just don't feel comfortable doing that.
For this activity, too — like stand-up comedy, like novel-writing, like ghostly conjuring — forges a kind of intimacy that can result in failure, in deathly embarrassment, in silent shame.
A tangle of guilt and ambivalence, which amounts to embarrassment, accompanies that silent correction, especially if the mistake has been made by someone I think well of (yes, it's okay to end a sentence with a preposition).
He was silent for a moment and then laughed in embarrassment, as if the national ethos were a personal failing.
Silent Bob actor, Kevin Smith, has tweeted about his embarrassment after being kicked off a Southwest Airline flight for being too fat.
During the worship service, the amidah is first recited by each individual as a silent prayer, giving any sinner a chance to atone without embarrassment.
I remained silent in an attempt to protect my family from further embarrassment and to restore a small degree of the privacy they have lost.
He said he had remained silent "in an attempt to protect my family from further embarrassment" but must now "speak up". .
The second narrator fell silent, and he seemed to me to be looking with some embarrassment toward the two young men, as if afraid that he had disturbed or offended them; then he filled his glass but did not drink.
At first, hovering between gratitude and rage, embarrassment takes over as the whole pub has fallen silent and everyone is staring at us.
