You're 18, all kinds of hormones crawling through your bloodstream, dropped headfirst into the heretofore mythical land of college, eager to prove you're an adult, simultaneously eager to drink a six pack of Smirnoff Ices on a Tuesday night, searching for some sort of identity but also terrified of embarrassment.
One is tempted to gloat, but this sort of embarrassment is a hazard of deadtree journalism, ours included.
I did a lot of yelling, and this game teaches us that you yell and scream and there's still the same sort of embarrassment.
That was the sort of embarrassment the Patriots used to deliver to opponents, and in his comments after the game, Belichick unintentionally pointed out how much things had changed.
Nobody wants to recall that you guys have the gizmos to read old Snapchats or dig up our AOL messages from when we were teenagers, because that sort of embarrassment would genuinely kill us.
Avoiding the same sort of embarrassment that was suffered last year would represent progress for Hearts.
That sort of embarrassment of choices is a trend we'd like to see continue here.
Q: "Now, was the purpose of your convening this meeting out of any sort of embarrassment that it would get out that there had been a botched operation?" RICE: "My concern in convening this meeting was that we had a very sensitive, extremely important program for the security of the country that was about to be compromised..
Unfortunately, those two things often come hand-in-hand, usually with some sort of awkward walk, a leak, and an overwhelming sense of embarrassment.
Either they're the cheesiest, most cringeworthy public displays of affection known to mankind – probably with some sort of flash-dancing mob involved, almost certainly with a high degree of embarrassment on all sides.
