Sentence examples for temporary embarrassment from inspiring English sources

The man quietly said "Yes," and Fitzgerald retreated in temporary embarrassment.

The man quietly said 'Yes', and Fitzgerald retreated in temporary embarrassment".

The arrest and imprisonment of the Russian punk-feminist rock group Pussy Riot for performing a song mocking Vladimir Putin caused temporary embarrassment to western newscasters reluctant to say the group's name, but lasting horror to defenders of free speech.

While the men written about in this document will suffer a temporary embarrassment and an unjustified invasion of privacy in their lives, their sexual activities and behaviour are still seen as acceptable.

And he is the local boy in South Carolina, which holds the second primary.Mr Obama's announcement is a temporary embarrassment to Mrs Clinton: it makes anything she does for the next week or so look like a response to the charismatic newcomer.

Thinking back, the thing that was notable about the leaks of the secret letters recording Blair's conversations with the American president was that although they caused Bush temporary embarrassment at home, they did not prevent him carrying on being frank, often alarmingly so, in subsequent video conferences.

The West offers it temporary embarrassments and a long-term future.

In one controversy after another — Whitewater, the travel-office scandal, the Paula Jones lawsuit — she refused to compromise or be forthcoming, and allowed what might have been temporary embarrassments to become part of an endless battle that helped derail the progressive reforms on which the Clintons had campaigned, including health-care legislation.

If anything, these setbacks are temporary embarrassments on the way to success.

"Yeah, that may be a political position we take in this game," they reply, before adding: "The 2008 financial crisis and recession aren't temporary embarrassments but totally consistent with post-industrial capitalism".

For example, if you are constantly worried that you might trip in front of others, you would have to confront that worry and realize that even though you would feel embarrassed, that embarrassment would be temporary and you would soon move on.